About the company
The Crypto Finance Group - comprising two FINMA-regulated financial institutions and part of Deutsche Börse Group - offers professional digital asset solutions. This includes one of the first FINMA-approved securities firms with 24/7 brokerage services, custody, infrastructure, and tokenisation solutions for financial institutions, as well as the first FINMA-approved manager of collective assets for crypto assets, with an active, rules-based, and index-based alternative investment fund offering, including the first Swiss crypto fund. The Crypto Finance Group is headquartered in Switzerland.
Job Summary
Responsibilities
📍Design, build, and maintain backend services across trading, custody, settlement, staking, and pledging 📍Take ownership of key microservices within an about 25-service distributed architecture 📍Ensure system performance, reliability, high availability, and readiness for multi-region operation 📍Develop Java-based services using Vert.x or Spring 📍Integrate with internal and external systems via REST, WebSocket, FIX, and occasionally SWIFT 📍Deploy and operate services in GCP + Kubernetes 📍Improve automation and delivery pipelines using ArgoCD 📍Diagnose and address issues in distributed systems 📍Participate in architecture discussions, incident reviews, and continuous improvement 📍Share knowledge and mentor other engineers
Requirements
📍Degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience 📍5+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally building production-grade systems 📍Strong Java experience and good understanding of microservice architecture 📍Solid knowledge of distributed systems patterns (resilience, retries, timeouts, etc.) 📍Hands-on experience with GCP, Kubernetes, and cloud-native design is a plus 📍Familiarity with REST, WebSocket, FIX; SWIFT is a plus
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