Senior Scala Engineer

Headquartered in Switzerland with additional offices in Toronto and London, SwissBorg aims to fundamentally change the way individuals manage their wealth. As a product obsessed team, we believe that advanced technology combined with an intuitive user experience will empower people to invest with more freedom, confidence, and belief.

In 2018, we successfully raised funds from over 23,800 global participants who share our vision of a wealth management industry with more community-centric values. We are now working towards the next phase of disruption. In Q1 of 2020, individuals across the globe will have the opportunity to purchase digital assets such as Bitcoin at the best price, and become members of our ecosystem to unlock first of its kind investment features.

Responsibilities

• Write server-side Scala code to build a scalable infrastructure capable of handling digital cash and crypto-currency transactions for users all around the world
• Identify requirements for backend architecture design and API with the engineering team
• Solve challenging problems in the context of finance and distributed systems
• Write rigorous automated tests and ensure code quality and documentation
• Optimize the code for performance

Skills and requirements

• Expertise in Scala
• Experience with JVM technologies, RDBMs, cloud architectures. Experience with Kafka is a plus
• Knowledge about the CQRS/Event Sourcing architecture
• Strong sense of ownership and entrepreneurial thinking - customer value should be your key driver
• Flexible, proactive, organized, detail-oriented and entrepreneurial
• Excellent English communication skills. French is a plus
• Experience in the finance industry a plus

Advantages

• Freedom to build the research architecture and create the company you've always dreamed of
• Grow in an environment with experts in finance, engineering, AI, psychology and business
• Very competitive salary and bonus based on our meritocratic system
• Flexible work hours
• Continuous learning and development opportunities
• Macbook Pro and 27" monitor
• New parents get time off

The candidate must to be on a European time zone.