Software Engineer - Payments

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 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.

Job Description

As a Software engineer - Payments, you'll be exposed to the entire software development lifecycle, and work on the specification, design, development, testing, deployment and monitoring of various solutions within a modern cloud (AWS) environment. You will also have the opportunity to mentor newer engineers.

The Payment services team consists of different products, including Gateway and authentication services. The gateway team covers a wide range of services from our unified payments API, to our card and bank payouts, smart payment routing and notifications products. The authentication team seeks to improve performance and support to the payment industry in delivering a global, inter-operable and consistent user experience across all e-commerce channels and connected devices.

Our core tech stack consists of .NET Core 6, C#, AWS (Fargate; DynamoDB; Lambda; SQS...), Docker, Terraform, Elasticsearch, Grafana and Datadog. We also use Java and Go in some areas.

• Developing in PL/SQL for the backend
• Taking ownership of specialised payments modules
• Debugging complex code you might have never seen before
• Working in an Agile environment using Jira and Confluence
• Solving problems in close collaboration with business analysts and other developers
• Documenting solutions together with the team’s technical writer
• Working on the design of new features as discussed with the architect
• Performing code reviews of changes to the modules you are responsible for
• integration with third party software

Qualifications

• Strong evincible experience within a similar role 
• Track record of developing in PL/SQL and Oracle database or similar 
• Experience in process analysis and engineering 
• Experience in defect triage 

It would be a real bonus if you have:

• German language skills 
• Experience in working with Agile methodologies
• ACCP certification

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.