Junior Software Engineer

The Securities Trading team is a dynamic team of Software Engineers and Business Analysts spread across several development centers. We follow an Agile process working closely with the Product Owner and related teams to develop product features and provide support to our extensive global customer base. 

We work with customers and partners to develop and deliver innovative solutions to meet market demands. The team is part of many exciting and challenging projects relating to cutting-edge Swiss European and Asian banking initiatives. We are the experts in Avaloq for the Securities Trading and Transaction Reporting business. You will have the opportunity to develop software in SQL Java for our containerized adapters plus our own proprietary Avaloq Script language for the Securities Trading and Transaction Reporting components.

Your key tasks:

• Work closely and collaborate with the Team Lead Product Owner Business Analysts and other Software Engineers
• Write solution designs for new developments and have them reviewed with our technical leads and architects.
• Design develop and maintain thought-out solutions within the teams responsibility.
• Participate in client workshops and support our business analysts in requirements analysis.
• Improve and optimize existing functionalities.
• Develop and maintain automated tests for quality assurance.
• Grow and learn to take ownership and responsibility for your area of expertise.
• To work with an Agile mindset within the existing process and ticketing platforms (Jira)  

Qualifications :

• University degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Candidate must have strong abilities to comprehend and understand complex topics
• Ideally a few years of continuous relevant software development experience although as strong graduate would be considered.
• Knowledge of software engineering 
• At least 1 year of experience working with database technologies (SQL Oracle PL/SQL) 
• Ideally 1 year of experience with Java (or similar) programming languages.  
• Eager to learn and understand the business and its needs aiming to provide clear designs and high-quality code
• Strong conceptual and analytical mind with a structured and autonomous approach to work on complex technical and business problems
• Fluent written and spoken English - a must as English is the official common language across the company

• It would be a real bonus if you have:

• Experience in the financial industry ideally working with Securities
• Any experience with Avaloq or other Wealth Management IT applications
• Knowledge of banking domain messaging standards like FIX SWIFT MT or MX (ISO20022)
• German or French language skills

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 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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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time