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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.

Are you ready to shape the future of banking technology? Join Avaloq's new and dynamic innovation team, where we’re building the next generation of cloud-native, modular banking solutions. Our mission is to rethink traditional banking architectures to deliver scalable, cost-efficient, and flexible SaaS platforms.

You’ll work alongside experienced, passionate engineers and domain experts, all focused on delivering real innovation in coreless banking. Our solutions are cloud-first with a strong emphasis on modern DevOps, performance, and modular design.

Your key tasks

• Turn banking needs into scalable tech: Analyze business requirements and architect modular backend solutions.
• Build cloud-native services: Develop, test, and deploy backend components for cloud-centric banking applications.
• Drive performance and quality: Apply best practices in code quality, testing, and CI/CD to ensure high availability and maintainability.
• Shape engineering culture: Promote DevOps principles, participate in code reviews, and mentor junior developers.
• Collaborate across domains: Work closely with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to deliver end-to-end value.

• Deep banking domain knowledge, with expertise in at least one key area (e.g., investment performance, booking engines, taxation, trading, or corporate actions).
• Proven backend engineering experience, ideally in a high-stakes, regulated environment.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and related backend technologies.
• Hands-on cloud experience including infrastructure-as-code and DevOps practices.
• Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, and API-first development.

It would be a real bonus if you have

• Experience with modular banking platforms or coreless architectures.
• Passion for building high-performing SaaS platforms.
• Contributions to open-source or technical communities

Ready to Innovate?

If you're entrepreneurial, collaborative, and passionate about building modern financial services, we’d love to hear from you. Submit your CV and a cover letter explaining why you’re a great fit for this pivotal role.

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.  

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