Beschreibung
Location: Zürich - Switzerland,Salary: according to the market
Contract type: Contract (6 months)
Start: Immediate
About the role:
As a Software Engineer you will have a unique and exciting opportunity to join a young and innovative company, committed to delivering value added services in the investment product space.
You will be part of the IT Development department, responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining key business applications and services on our highly-specialized investment product management platform. They value Agility (through SCRUM), Technology (through a modern microservices platform built with functional programming in Scala) and Collaboration.
Thanks to a fluid and concentrated organization, frequent communication with end-users and internal training on the investment product domain you will provide concrete and robust technology solutions to the end clients, partners and users.
As part of one of the growing development teams i.e. Insurance & Wealth Planning Solutions Development, Core Services, Anna & Constructor Development, Trade Management or the Shared Services Development team, you will specifically contribute to a rapid growth of the business line.
Job Requirement:
Essential responsibilities:
Deliver high quality solutions in tight time-frames to meet demanding customer requirements
Work closely with business and other IT units to gather and understand requirements
Contribute to software and architectural design decisions
Contribute to a robust automated test suite to work in a continuous integration continuous deployment environment
Become involved in the internal DevOps and Scala guilds, building relationships with other developers and identifying / implementing best practices
Maintain close interaction with the business on very diverse topics: front-end portals to management of long-maturity life insurance products
Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
Experience in implementation of APIs for integration with internal and external systems
Technical skills:
Financial background in either banking or the insurance industry (nice-to-have)
Experience of working with design thinking techniques in iterative sprints is an advantage to this role
CQRS and event sourcing hands on experience
Knowledge of serverless architecture would be a benefit
DevOps experience configuration management, containers, virtualization, continuous integration and deployment
Akka / Akka Persistence / Akka HTTP / Akka Streams
Scala
Play
Slick
Kafka / event streaming pipelines
Docker
Kubernetes
Jenkins
AngularJS
Soft skills:
Fluency in English is essential
Experience building scalable, distributed applications in Scala and Java
Algorithms and Data Structures
Experience in developing software in an Agile environment
Interest in the latest programming trends such as functional and reactive programming
Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
Experience in Implementation of APIs for integration with internal and external systems
Strong problem solving skills & ability to learn in a fast paced environment
Other characteristics:
Language: fluent English (at least C1).