Java Developer

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.

The Team

Join our dedicated team as a Java Developer with expertise in Eclipse or a similar IDE, where you will be crafting the engineering tools and frameworks essential to our software developers. The team develops and maintains custom programming languages used to configure and set-up the Avaloq banking and wealth management product suite.

You will work in an agile development team passionate about developing IDE plug-ins, Domain Specific Languages and trying to push the owned frameworks, compilers and IDE plug-ins even further. As member of the team, you will be responsible for the whole life cycle of the code you develop or enhance. Our core technology stack is built using Java, Guice, Eclipse Modelling Framework, Language Server Protocol, Xtext and a small layer of PL/SQL.

You'll play a pivotal role in developing code that’s at the heart of our banking and wealth management product suite. With your expertise you will be contributing directly to tools that strengthen our clients and drive the future of financial technology.

Your Key tasks

• Write clean and maintainable Java code while implementing new features that adhere to established coding standards. Optimize the existing codebase for enhanced performance. Participate in code reviews to ensure high-quality code and to facilitate knowledge sharing among peers.
• Identify and fix software bugs, enhancing the performance of our banking and wealth management applications. Utilize specialized debugging tools to proficiently diagnose and tackle issues within the Java environment.
• Design and construct robust tools and frameworks to be used by developers. Integrate these tools seamlessly with the existing project infrastructure.

About you

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• 2+ years with Java development in a professional environment (Java 11 or above)
• 1+ year with Eclipse or similar IDE for development
• Proficiency in writing clean and maintainable Java code

Nice-to-have extras:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field preferred
• Proficiency in Google Guice, JUnit
• Experience with Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub
• Knowledge of Xtext/EMF, LSP, Mockito as plus

 

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.