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Avaloq

Software Engineer

Hybrid

Edinburgh, United kingdom

Full Time

02-12-2025

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Skills

Creativity Java Jira SQL Docker Kubernetes Research angular Team Spirit Software Development Agile Recruitment Spring Spring Boot Gradle Microservices

Job Specifications

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 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

We are an Agile team in the Engineering division distributed across two locations - Edinburgh and Zurich. We contribute to the architectural shift to the microservices paradigm at Avaloq, developing tools and frameworks used across the company to support various business processes, including comprehensive identity management and product delivery services.

Our technology stack includes Java, SQL, Groovy, Spring Boot, Angular, Docker and Kubernetes.

Help us to maintain and evolve frameworks and tools running on Kubernetes platform
Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle from analysis, all the way to testing and deployment
Third-level support in case of a production issues
Maintain great team spirit and excellent collaboration, despite the distributed nature of the team

Qualifications

Experience using technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Angular, SQL, JPA, JMS and JAX-RS
An eagerness to learn and take up new challenges
Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes

It would be a bonus if you have the following:

Experience with build tools such as Gradle
Experience with Unix systems
Identity and Access Management knowledge and tooling
Ability to design and implement new Jira plugins using the Atlassian SDK

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.

About the Company

Avaloq is a premium provider of front-to-back software and services for over 170 financial institutions around the world. Our clients include private banks, wealth managers and investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. We develop software that can be deployed flexibly through cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) or on-premises, and we offer Banking Operations outsourcing through our Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) model. Avaloq is a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, a global leader in the integration of IT... Know more