Become a part of our young and dynamic team

Senior SCALA developer

 
ABOUT THE ROLE

• As a Software Engineer you will have a unique and exciting opportunity to join a young and dynamic 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. We value Agility (through SCRUM), Technology (through a modern micro-services 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 our clients, partners and users.


• As part of the Insurance & Wealth Planning Solutions Development team, you will specifically contribute to a rapid growth of the business line.

YOUR TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Deliver high quality solutions in tight timeframes 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


• Conduce 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

Our requirements

• Fluency in English is essential


• Eligibility to work in Switzerland


• Experience building scalable, distributed applications in Scala and Java


• Strong understanding of 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

• Financial background in either banking or the insurance industry


• Cloud migration activities either Public or Private


• 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 server-less architecture would be a benefit


• DevOps experience configuration management, containers, virtualisation, continuous integration and deployment


• Practical experience with, either or both, AWS or Azure


• Akka / Akka Persistence / Akka HTTP / Akka Streams / ScalaZ / Play / Slick / Kafka / event streaming pipelines


• Docker / Kubernetes / AWS / Jenkins / AngularJS

ARE YOU INTERESTED

In supporting the build-out of our young and innovative company within a fast growing & entrepreneurial team?
If so, please click on “Apply” to submit your application.

No candidacy received by post will be taken into consideration.