Java Developer (A)

Please note that due to applicable Swiss legislation, we can only consider applications from Swiss citizens, EU citizens, and individuals with a valid work permit.

Remote work from abroad is not possible.

Tasks

• Participate in the redesign and refactoring of the Market Data Distribution Platform
• Design, develop, and implement new features and system components
• Extend and optimize existing functionality post-migration
• Build robust, scalable, and high-performance real-time systems
• Contribute to standardization and automation across Markets Technology
• Engage in application support, including periodic on-call duty
• Foster engineering best practices and mentor junior developers
• Collaborate in cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions

Requirements

• Knowledge of market data (asset classes, data vendors, entitlement aspects)
• A minimum of 5 years of experience developing with Java, with at least 2 years on Java 11 or higher
• Good knowledge of multi-threading and memory management
• Experience building high-performance real-time systems, market data streaming ideal
• Cloud concepts and experience, in particular Azure
• Kafka experience
• Test-driven development, experience of JUnit and mocking libraries (e.g. Mockito)
• Previous experience in the finance industry, particularly front-office functions
• Familiar with functional programming, ideally in Java
• Experience in solution architecture, able to specify and factor non-functional requirements into design and implementation
• Familiarity with concepts and implementations related to security
• Familiarity with lifecycle activities, capacity management, observability
• General DevOps culture: scripting, pipelines, deployments, certificates, etc.
• Experience with Agile/SAFe methodology, prior use of Jira and Confluence
• Knowledge of Jenkins, Grafana, Octopus, Kubernetes
• Used to designing and developing collaboratively (e.g. pair- or mob-programming), to giving and receiving feedback
• Experience mentoring more junior developers
• Good code review skills, pride in code quality
• Focused, capable of driving the delivery of technical changes to completion
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with the occasional priority changes and context switches
• Structured, able to follow processes systematically
• Fluency in English and good knowledge in German

Soft Skills

• Team player
• Very good communication skills
• Ability to work in an agile environment
• Positive thinking personality with a can-do attitude
• Self-motivator, able and willing to work with minimal direction