Backend Developer

About Crypto Finance

Crypto Finance Group is an award-winning company and one of the most respected fintechs in Switzerland, with offices in Zug, Zurich, and Singapore. We enable financial intermediaries to manage, store, and transact with digital assets. Professionalism is our focus, but innovation and speed are equally important. With our full suite of crypto asset financial services – in asset management, brokerage, and storage and tokenisation infrastructure solutions – we are perfectly positioned to help professional investors enter the crypto asset market.

The Crypto Finance Group is a fast-growing, exciting place to work with tremendous opportunities for personal development and professional advancement. The starting date is as soon as possible, and the work location is in the heart of Zurich.

Responsibilities

• Take on a key role in the Dev team that develops, extends, orchestrates and maintains our custom built order management, infrastructure and risk tools with client facing and internal components in an agile development environment
• Manage, improve, and extend individual components of a reactive microservices architecture using java, Vert.x, NATS and hazelcast

• Be responsible for maintaining a proper codebase, reasonable test coverage, and contribute to an automatic deployment pipeline in a cloud environment
• Improve and design new components and services that aim to handle millions of end clients in multiple regions throughout the world while maintaining a scalable, low-latency and consistent platform for trading and settling of digital assets
• Develop APIs to communicate and trade against the most recognized digital assets providers
• Build up on high quality and clean code designed by proven experts in software development

Requirements

• University degree in computer science or similar
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Java building highly performant, available and stable systems connecting to multiple APIs
• Experience in developing scalable and testable microservices
• Experience with Angular a plus
• Vert.x experience is a plus
• Knowledge of REST, Websocket, and FIX protocol is a plus
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL or similar
• Typescript knowledge a plus
• Experience working in a banking environment; programming systems in high frequency and/or low latency trading is a plus
• Language skills: German and/or English professional proficiency

Benefits

• Join an international, fast-paced blockchain and fintech team with experienced industry leaders
• Work at the forefront of an inspiring, dynamic new sector in B2B finance with digital assets
• Be part of our friendly, knowledge-sharing, entrepreneurial culture and flat hierarchy
• Work in a role that lets you learn, and gives you responsibility and independence

Please note:

We do not accept CVs from recruiting or staffing agencies.

Due to the Swiss labour legislation, we can only accept applicants who have the right to work in Switzerland (are in possession of a Swiss work permit or are EU/EFTA citizens). All other applications will not be considered.