Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 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.

Job Description

In this position, you will be part of an independent, agile Swiss expert team focusing on all aspects of the financial asset class of structured products. The current team consists of developers, quantitative analysts, data center operators, a project manager, and an IT architect. Our team culture thrives on trust and psychological safety, fostered through transparency and a touch of humor. We are proactive in both our mindset and our day-to-day execution. When it comes to designing conceptual solutions, we encourage every team member to voice their opinions and views. This culture of inclusivity and open dialogue ensures that our collaborative approach results in well-rounded, scalable and robust designs.

We prefer proactive but humble individuals who know what they don't know and feel comfortable in declaring this accordingly. Further we are looking for someone who is appreciating the opportunity to address improvements in tickets on their own and bring them to our weekly planning meeting.

Your key tasks 

• Support us in maintaining, improving, and sometimes refactoring our 8 main applications and databases of our micro-services framework
  • Develop tickets (frontend, backend, database) according to specification and in collaboration with ticket reporter
  • Conduct functional tests of your development
• 2nd level support for production operations
• Create your own tickets and present them in the planning in order to address improvements you noted
• In alignment with our IT architect keep our application landscape technically up to date
• Conduct code reviews or pair reviews if requested

Qualifications

We believe this position requires

• A further education in software engineering (master's degree).
• You require an experience of  5-8 years
• You need to have solid experience and know how in programming in
  • Node.js
  • MS SQL
  • MongoDB, and Angular
• We expect you further (as an absolute must) to be highly experienced in using GIT in combination with Linux shell command line.
• We work with Docker and would expect you to support internal end users on their daily Docker usage.
• You should be familiar with RESTful APIs and be able to guide and consult our ticket-creating stakeholders on these principles.

Additional Information

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.