Senior Backend Software Engineer

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At Evooq, we are building an ecosystem of solutions that combine data, technology and investment expertise. Finance professionals use our solutions to rapidly identify investment opportunities, make informed decisions and manage the risk and the lifecycle of the investments. Moreover, Evooq is organized through highly autonomous teams and by privileging trust and responsibility.

We are expanding our core engineering team and seeking a passionate and motivated Software Engineer to join us in our high-performing and agile collaborative environment. As a Software Engineer, you will work on our core platform building new/enhancing our features whilst utilizing modern technology like Java 17, Kotlin, Spring Boot and Microservices architecture.

This is a permanent position based in our office in the heart of Lausanne.

Candidates must have or be eligible for a work permit in Switzerland.

What you will do as a Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

• Take full ownership of the product you are crafting - You will be involved in the full life cycle of software engineering including requirement analysis, prototyping, design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and support
• Ensure correctness, maintainability, and sustainability of the delivered solutions, following and promoting our established mindset for well-crafted design, code, and testing
  

What you need as a Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

• A can-do attitude and abundance mindset - you’ll be involved in the full software life cycle, including decision-making from design to production
• Good taste and basic knowledge of modern, scalable software architecture.
• Any knowledge of distributed systems is a plus
• Hands-on experience in designing and implementing high-quality modern APIs and back-end systems
• Passion about writing clean code. We appreciate practices like Domain-Driven Design, BDD, or TDD
• Ability to analyze and challenge business requirements, brainstorm technology ideas, and design/build efficient cloud solutions
• Team spirit: You are a great teammate, making sure that everyone on your team feels valued and is excited to work with you
• Ability to complete projects with minimal supervision and direction
• Passion, curiosity, pragmatism, and humility. We favor code and demos over lengthy discussions
  

Technical Skills required

• Languages: mainly JVM-based, like Java and Kotlin
• Frameworks: Spring, Reactor, Docker, Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS
• Basic knowledge of software building process including versioning, package, and delivering
• Good knowledge of relational databases like PostgreSQL
  

Why us

• We are a fast-paced organization with the ambition to become the wealth management technology industry leader
• We strongly advocate humility, curiosity, and pragmatism - which is evident in the way we work
• We value our employees, our customers and take great pride in our offering
• We like well-written, maintainable, testable, and extensible software. We do
• Employees have their say in roadmaps, schedules, and features and are listened to
• The technology stacks are modern, reliable, scalable, and maintainable
• To see our full technology stack: https://stackshare.io/evooq/evooq
  

About us

Evooq is a global provider of technology-driven solutions for wealth managers. We are building an ecosystem that combines data, technology and investment expertise to make personalised investment scalable.

Wealth managers use our solutions to deliver personalised advice to investors with high-quality content and the best investment products.

We are headquartered in Lausanne, with additional offices in Zurich and Singapore. We operate as a group of highly autonomous teams that take responsibility for their projects and interact with each other based on mutual trust.