Software Engineer

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.

We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world's leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Join Avaloq as a Software Engineer and contribute to the design and development of our next-generation composable banking platform.

You will have the opportunity to acquire deep banking knowledge and combine it with your technical expertise. You'll work on product features that are critical to Avaloq's strategy, with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve.

We value engineers who are versatile, show ownership and leadership in their area, and are enthusiastic about tackling new, complex problems.

You will be surrounded by smart, highly capable people who are passionate about our highly scalable, even-driven, cloud-native (AWS), serverless and composable architecture.

Your key tasks

• Design, implement and evolve backend banking services
• Translate complex, historized domain models into highly efficient non-relational schemas, optimised for read/write paths, scalability, and event-driven workflows
• Build asynchronous, event-driven processing pipelines (queues, streams, schedulers, fan-out/fan-in orchestration)
• Develop APIs and services following strict contracts, clean domain boundaries, and robust error handling
• Embrace a "you build it – you run it" mindset: own your services end-to-end, including implementation, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, incident handling and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with SRE and Platform teams to ensure reliability, performance and cost-efficiency for millions of fine-grained processing tasks
• Participate actively in code reviews, technical discussions and design sessions, helping to shape the technical direction of the product
• Mentor and support colleagues, fostering a culture of learning, ownership and engineering excellence in the team
• Your initial project will be working on our investment performance engine, a highly mathematical business domain

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field
• Strong modelling skills: historized data, revision control, effective dating, immutability, audit trails
• Solid applied mathematical skills, especially in discrete mathematics and complexity
• Experience with AWS cloud services (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, API Gateway, IAM) and event-driven architecture is a plus
• Comfortable working in a less structured, dynamic early-stage environment
• Willingness and ability to immerse yourself in the world of core banking, with its broad and challenging business domains

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.  

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