Senior Software Engineer Java 100% (f/m/d) - (Contract through our external payroll partner with immediate start for 12 months with possible extension)

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

We are seeking an experienced Java Developer to join our market data team. You will be participating in a major refactoring of the market data distribution platform, implementing new components and extending existing capabilities once the platform is migrated. Your strong background in solution architecture and your extensive implementation experience will allow you to lead to way in evolving our complex platform, ensuring its reliability, flexibility and performance.

YOUR CHALLENGE

• Knowledge of market data (asset classes, data vendors, entitlement aspects)

• A minimum of 5 years of experience developing with Java, with at least 2 years on Java 11 or higher

• Good knowledge of multi-threading and memory management

• Experience building high-performance real-time systems, market data streaming ideal

• Track record in delivering robust and scalable solutions

• Willingness to participate in application support, including periodical on-call duty

• Be a driver for standardization and automation within Julius Bär Markets Technology

• Foster the engineering culture within your team

• Bring proven expertise in engineering practices and processes and have experience operating and supporting critical business systems on a global scale

• Your experience with microservices, cloud-native applications and distributed systems will help us propel our business growth

YOUR PROFILE

• Cloud concepts and experience, in particular Azure

• Kafka experience

• Test driven development, experience of JUnit and mocking libraries (e.g. Mockito)

• Previous experience in the finance industry, particularly front-office functions

• Familiar with functional programming, ideally in Java

• Experience in solution architecture, able to specify and factor non-functional requirements into design and implementation

• Familiarity with concepts and implementations related to security

• Familiarity with lifecycle activities, capacity management, observability

• General DevOps culture: scripting, pipelines, deployments, certificates, etc.

• Experience with Agile/SAFe methodology, prior use of Jira and Confluence

• Knowledge of Jenkins, Grafana, Octopus, Kubernetes

• Used to designing and developing collaboratively (e.g. pair- or mob- programming), to giving and receiving feedback

• Experience mentoring more junior developers

• Good code review skills, pride in code quality

• Focused, capable of driving the delivery of technical changes to completion

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with the occasional priority changes and context switches

• Structured, able to follow processes systematically

• Very good English and communication skills

• Team player

• Ability to work in an agile environment

• Positive thinking personality with a can-do attitude

• Self-motivator, able and willing to work with minimal direction

We only consider candidates who can start latest 01.07.2025.

We are looking forward to receiving your full job application through our online application tool. Further interesting job opportunities can be found on our Career site .

Is this not quite what you are looking for? Set up a job alert by creating a candidate account here.

The international reference in wealth management

Julius Baer is the leading Swiss wealth management group. We focus on servicing and advising sophisticated private clients from around the world, taking into account what truly matters to them – in their business and personal life, today and for future generations.

Headquartered in Zurich, we are present in around 60 locations worldwide, including Bangkok, Dubai, Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, Monaco, Mumbai, Santiago de Chile, Shanghai, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo.

Why join Julius Baer?

At Julius Baer our employees enjoy the benefits of a global company with the support and collegiality of a much smaller one. We are growing quickly, but we remain dedicated to maintaining our accessible structure with flat hierarchies, and approachable and supportive leaders.

With offices around the world, we offer an international and stimulating work environment and the opportunity to work with a diverse team of highly motivated colleagues, bringing the best of the bank to our clients.Our core values of Care, Passion, and Excellence define the tone of how we interact with each other and our partners.

Committed to your success

Whether nurturing young talent with our renowned apprentice scheme, enabling ambitious university graduates to put theory into practice with our Graduate Programme , or providing first-class opportunities for experienced professionals, we look after our employees. We believe in continuous learning as a company and as individuals, which is why we put a focus on the health and well-being of our employees and offer flexible working options, a wide array of benefits, and extensive career development programmes .

For more information visit www.juliusbaer.com or contact us via the Contact Form .

For recruiting agents , please see the additional information here .