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---base:meta-keywords:meta-viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0title: Engineer - FinTech---Engineer - FinTech===================Are you a Software Engineer with hands-on experience in and a passion for building reliable, high-performance systems? Do you enjoy solving complex technical challenges and taking ownership of your code from development to production? Then we have the right opportunity for you! Our partner, a growing Swiss FinTech company operating a digital trading platform for institutional financial markets, is looking for a Engineer to join its engineering team in Zurich.
Engineer - FinTech===================### About the roleAs a Engineer, you will develop and maintain the core services of a trading platform, focusing on market connectivity, real-time data processing and order routing. You will build reliable, concurrent applications and work closely with the infrastructure team to ensure stable and efficient production operations. Work tasks----------* Development: Develop and maintain production services in for market data processing, exchange connectivity and order routing.
- Backend Architecture: Design concurrent, event-driven systems that handle message ordering, retries, reconnections and failure recovery.
- System Integration: Integrate external trading interfaces and APIs, ensuring reliable data exchange and connection management.
- Performance Optimisation: Analyse and improve application performance, latency, throughput and resource utilisation.
- Testing & Reliability: Develop automated tests, monitor application behaviour and investigate production issues.
- Technical Collaboration: Work with DevOps and infrastructure engineers on deployments, incident resolution and production support.
Must-Haves* Experience: At least 3 years of experience in backend development, systems engineering or a similar software engineering role.
- : Hands-on experience developing applications in , including async programming, concurrency and error handling.
- Backend & Networking: understanding of Linux, networking and distributed systems.
- Problem-Solving: Experience debugging applications, analysing performance and writing reliable, maintainable code.
- Working Style: Independent, responsible and structured, with an emphasis on testing, documentation and production stability.
- Communication: Strong English communication skills. and experience with financial trading systems are advantages. Your Benefits-------------* Technical Ownership: Take responsibility for core trading services used by institutional financial clients.
- Modern Tech Stack: Work with and develop services where reliability, concurrency and performance are essential.
- Greenfield Development: Build new components and contribute to technical and architectural decisions.
- Engineering Development: Help establish and develop the engineering function in Zurich.
- International Collaboration: Work closely with experienced software and infrastructure engineers across different locations.
- Direct Involvement: Join a small engineering team with short decision-making processes and direct influence on technical solutions. Our recruitment process-----------------------* Online Logic and Personality Test
- First phone call
- Online interview with our Recruitment Team
- Online interview with the Hiring Managers
- On-site meet & greet
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