IWPS Scala Senior Software Engineer

Leonteq is a Swiss fintech company with a leading marketplace for structured investment solutions. Based on proprietary modern technology, the company offers derivative investment products and services and predominantly covers the capital protection, yield enhancement and participation product classes. Leonteq acts as both a direct issuer of its own products and as a partner to other financial institutions. Leonteq further enables life insurance companies and banks to produce capital-efficient, unit-linked pension products with guarantees.

Leonteq generated turnover of CHF 26.4 billion and posted total operating income of CHF 234.5 million in 2020. As of 31 December 2020, Leonteq's shareholders' equity totalled CHF 647.5 million.

Leonteq has an investment grade rating from the rating agencies Fitch Ratings Ltd. and Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd., who have evaluated and assigned ratings to Leonteq AG and Leonteq Securities AG, respectively.

Leonteq is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: LEON) and is a securities firm regulated by the Swiss Financial Market Authority FINMA and is a member of the Swiss Structured Product Association.

Founded in 2007, Leonteq today has offices and subsidiaries in 13 countries, through which it serves over 50 markets. The company employs over 500 professionals from more than 50 nationalities around the world and brings a young, dynamic and diverse workforce to the global fintech market. Leonteq's Portugal branch opened in October 2021 and is part of Leonteq's initiative to support business growth with the employment of up to 100 designated roles along the entire value chain.

Apply by email at leonteq@scalajobs.dev

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 rapid growth of the business line. As part of the Insurance and Wealth Planning Software Engineering team you will specifically contribute to a key Leonteq business unit managing the processing, trading and hedging of long-maturity Life-Insurance Products through a modern white-labelling IT platform

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 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

Our requirements

• Fluency in English is essential
• 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 Google Cloud Platform Akka/ Akka Persistence / Akka HTTP / Akka Streams, Cats/ FS2, Slick, Kafka / event streaming pipelines Docker, Kubernetes AWS, Jenkins

Apply by email at leonteq@scalajobs.dev