Functional Architect / Senior Backend Engineer (R&D Laboratory)

Functional Architect / Senior Backend Engineer (R&D Laboratory)

• Full-time

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.

We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

Avaloq has recently established an R&D Laboratory with a mission to explore, design and develop new coreless banking modules, shaping the future of banking technology. You will be surrounded by talented, forward-thinking individuals driven by a passion for building the next generation of banking systems.

Our approach emphasizes modular design, extreme scalability, and cost-efficiency across all stages of each module's lifecycle. The first coreless banking module centers on investment performance, with future modules covering core areas of the banking value chain, potentially including the main booking engine, securities administration and tax management.

We are looking for a skilled, entrepreneurial Functional Architect (or Senior Backend Engineer) to join our mission and to drive innovation in coreless banking technology.

Your key tasks:

• Analyze business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure modular, scalable, and cost-optimized solutions.
• Hands-on develop, test, and optimize backend services.
• Take ownership and responsibility for your area of expertise.
• Ensure code quality and performance through best practices in development and testing.
• Conduct code reviews and coach junior team members.
• For Functional Architect: Lead design and architecture for the coreless banking modules and collaborate closely with central architecture team.

Qualifications

• Broad banking knowledge with deep expertise in at least one area, such as Booking Engines, Investment Performance, Taxation, Trading, Corporate Actions, or similar.
• Familiarity with the functional requirements of such modules, for example handling of retro-active events.
• Strong hands-on skills in developing, testing, and optimizing banking functionality.
• Proficiency in various programming languages, databases, and technology stacks.
• Expertise in cloud technologies (e.g. AWS and Azure) is a strong plus.
• For Functional Architect: Proven communication skills to lead the team, drive development efforts, and monitor achievements.

Along with a comprehensive CV, please submit a cover letter explaining why you are an excellent fit for this key role.

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 fantastic 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.