Senior Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Contract: B2B, 6 months + extensions
• Workload: full-time, 100% remote
• Language: English (fluent)
• Other: Occasional participation in an on-call rotation for the production platform

Description

We are looking for highly skilled Senior Software Engineers to join an international engineering team building a production-grade financial technology platform used by leading financial institutions. The platform supports complex, real-time financial transactions and combines modern JVM technologies with distributed systems and Distributed Ledger Technology.

Technology environment

• Java / JVM
• Kotlin
• Spring Boot
• ActiveMQ and message-driven architectures
• Gradle, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible
• Relational databases
• APIs and external system integrations
• Canton / Daml and Distributed Ledger Technology
• SWIFT-based financial integrations

What you will do

• Design and develop core components of a highly transactional financial platform
• Implement complex business logic and workflows
• Build resilient, secure and maintainable JVM services
• Work with message-driven and distributed architectures
• Develop integrations using APIs, messaging and financial communication protocols
• Contribute to Distributed Ledger components and workflows
• Solve complex concurrency, data consistency and transactional problems
• Participate in architectural assessments and threat-modelling sessions
• Collaborate with experienced Developers, DevOps Engineers and QA Engineers across several countries
• Contribute to code reviews and technical design discussions
• Support a production-grade system and occasionally participate in the on-call rotation
• Ensure high standards of correctness, security, resilience, confidentiality and operational stability

What we are looking for

• Ideally 6+ years of professional Software Engineering experience
• Very strong commercial experience with Java and the JVM ecosystem
• Excellent understanding of core Computer Science concepts
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented software design and engineering principles
• Experience building complex, production-grade backend systems
• Understanding of databases and transactional systems
• Experience with concurrency and multithreading
• Knowledge of message-driven or event-driven architectures
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• A Master's degree in Computer Science or a closely related technical field is strongly preferred

Recruitment process

• The full process is expected to be completed within approximately two weeks
• Online technical assessment completed at home
• 30-minute technical screening with coding and technical questions
• Technical interview including live coding
• Second technical interview including further live coding and technical assessment
• Final soft-skills interview