Senior Software Developer Lisboa

Senior Software Developer
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

WHO WE ARE

Leonteq is a Swiss fintech company with a leading marketplace for structured investment solutions. Based on proprietary modern technology, the company offers derivative investment products and services and predominantly covers the capital protection, yield enhancement and participation product classes. Leonteq acts as both a direct issuer of its own products and as a partner to other financial institutions. Leonteq further enables life insurance companies and banks to produce
- efficient,
- linked pension products with guarantees.

Leonteq generated turnover of CHF 21. 3 billion and posted total operating income of CHF 260. 0 million in 2023. As of 31 December 2023, Leonteq's shareholders' equity totalled CHF 780. 1 million.

Leonteq has an investment grade rating from the rating agencies Fitch Ratings Ltd. and Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd. , who have evaluated and assigned ratings to Leonteq AG and Leonteq Securities AG, respectively. Furthermore, Leonteq has ESG ratings from both MSCI as well as Sustainalytics.

Leonteq is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: LEON) and is a securities firm regulated by the Swiss Financial Market Authority FINMA and is a member of the Swiss Structured Product Association.

Founded in 2007, Leonteq today has offices and subsidiaries in 13 countries, through which it serves over 50 markets. The company employs over 500 professionals from more than 50 nationalities around the world and brings a young, dynamic and diverse workforce to the global fintech market. Leonteq's Portugal branch opened in October 2021 and is part of Leonteq's initiative to support business growth with the employment of up to 100 designated roles along the entire value chain.

About the role

As a Software Engineer, you will have a unique and exciting opportunity to join a young and dynamic company, committed to delivering value added services in the investment product space.

You will be part of the IT Development department, responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining key business applications and services on our
- specialized investment product management platform. We value Agility (through SCRUM), Technology (through a modern
- services platform built with functional programming in Scala) and Collaboration.

Thanks to a fluid and concentrated organization, frequent communication with
- users and internal training on the investment product domain you will provide concrete and robust technology solutions to our clients, partners and users.

As part of the Omega Software Engineering team you will specifically contribute to a key Leonteq business unit managing the processing, trading and hedging of
- maturity Life-Insurance Products through a modern
- labelling IT platform.

What you'll do

• Deliver high quality solutions in tight timeframes to meet demanding customer requirements
• Work closely with business and other IT units to gather and understand requirements
• Contribute to software and architectural design decisions
• Contribute to a robust automated test suite to work in a continuous integration / continuous deployment environment
• Become involved in the internal Dev
  Ops and Scala guilds, building relationships with other developers and identifying / implementing best practices
• Maintain close interaction with the business on very diverse topics:
  - end portals to management of
  - maturity life insurance products

What you'll need

• Experience building scalable, distributed applications in Scala and Java
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong understanding of Algorithms and Data Structures
• Experience in developing software in an Agile environment
• Interest in the latest programming trends such as functional and reactive programming
• Knowledge of relational and
  - relational database systems
• Experience in implementation of APIs for integration with internal and external systems
• Strong problem solving skills & ability to learn in a fast paced environment
• Fluency in English

Nice to have

• Financial background in either banking or the insurance industry
• Cloud migration activities either Public or Private
• Experience of working with design thinking techniques in iterative sprints
• CQRS and event sourcing hands on experience
• Knowledge of
  - less architecture
• Dev
  Ops experience configuration management, containers, virtualisation, continuous integration and deployment
• Practical experience with Google Cloud Platform
• Slick
• Docker
• AWS
• Jenkins

Why you'll love working here

• Experience the dynamics of a leading fintech company
• Insight opportunities across all departments to understand and build
  - how in the mechanics of the structured investment product value chain
• Be part of a multinational team / department spread across different locations
• Work in modern facilities at an exceptional location
• Hybrid work system: home office and office