PROFIDATA offers software solutions for investment and wealth management through its subsidiaries in major European financial centers. This offering is complemented by a rapidly growing, broad range of services in the areas of software as a service, consulting, implementation, training and support. XLab is Profidata’s innovation center based in Zürich, Switzerland. With a small and passionate team, we are developing new cloud-native productivity tools that are good looking as well as fun and easy to use.
If you want to build and run a high-quality backend that makes a real impact for clients and are looking forward to leading a motivated cross-site team, then we are looking for you.
Your responsibilities
In this role you will be responsible for leading an agile team (Kanban/Scrum) across different locations, ensuring continuous delivery of new functionality, efficiency, compliance with engineering standards, and building quality-based development culture.
Your tasks will also include
- Act as the main point of contact between the technical team and management: translate business needs into technical direction and vice versa.
- Own the codebase, tech stack and applications throughout the full lifecycle.
- Backend development with Java and Spring,Boot.
- Design, build, automate, deploy and maintain robust and secure client-facing wealth management applications.
- Drive DevOps practices: deployment automation, CI/CD, reliability, monitoring, operational excellence.
Your Skills (Must-have)
To be successful in this role you offer a strong quality-oriented mindset paired with a deep understanding of “why this matters” for the end user. Moreover, you bring:
- Proven ability to lead and grow people (coaching, feedback, accountability) in a distributed setup.
- Excellent stakeholder skills: you can communicate clearly with senior leadership and influence decisions with facts, clarity, and persuasion.
- Fluency in (Swiss) German and English (required).
- Deep knowledge of Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
- Experience in building microservice-based backends using Java + Spring Boot.
- Practical experience with Docker and container orchestration—preferably Kubernetes.
Nice to Have
- Experience in finance / wealth management and knowledge of financial instruments.
- Experience with Elasticsearch and messaging systems.
- Experience with reactive programming.
- Experience building products from scratch in a regulated and security-sensitive context.
We offer
- A great team with flat hierarchies.
- An open and entrepreneurial working atmosphere that leaves room for creativity and initiative.
- Greenfield development.
- A modern tech stack.