NUCIEUS SOFTWARE ENGINEER

About the role

• Nucleus is the engineering group responsible for building and evolving the core technology platform that powers Leonteq’s investment platform. Our services handle some of the most critical capabilities of our product applications. Our services provide market data distribution, pricing infrastructure, messaging, scalability, and shared platform services.
• Engineering excellence through modern software design and high-quality engineering practices.
• Ownership, where engineers take responsibility for the full lifecycle of the services and technologies they build.
• Collaboration across development, DevOps, security, infrastructure, and program management teams.
• Continuous learning, both internally and across engineering teams, with a commitment to continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.

What you're doing

• As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with advanced cloud engineering experience, you will join the Nucleus team as a Full-Stack Engineer.
• Design, develop, and maintain highly available distributed services for business-critical applications.
• Contribute to the platform in close collaboration with other engineers, Product Management, Security Engineering, and Infrastructure teams, and to a modern microservices platform that runs services both on-premises and in Google Cloud.
• Solve challenging engineering problems involving distributed systems and technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, messaging, caching, serialization, Protocol Buffers, and service mesh.
• Build and run microservices on a modern Kubernetes platform that runs both on-premises and in Google Cloud.
• Our platform is hosted on Google Cloud.
• Primary languages: Java, Scala, Rust, Kotlin
• Operating Platform: Kubernetes, GitOps, Argo CD
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB
• Cloud Technologies: Google Cloud Platform, Google Cloud Run, and Google Cloud Storage

What You'll Need

• We believe in you:
• A strong understanding of software engineering principles, automation, and DevOps practices.
• Ability to architect, design, and develop highly available distributed systems and microservices using Java, Scala, Rust, and Kotlin.
• Proficiency with modern, high-performance, and highly available cloud-native infrastructure and services, including Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Service Mesh.
• Familiarity with messaging platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with leading distributed systems, including Apache Kafka and Service Mesh.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Why You'll Love Working Here

• Be part of a leading fintech team and help develop the next generation of cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with world-class talent to design, develop, and maintain highly available, highly scalable, and secure distributed systems.
• Innovate and evolve the core technology platform that powers Leonteq’s investment products.
• Develop and deploy high-performance applications in the cloud using Google Cloud Platform.
• Help shape the architecture and evolution of a platform used by multiple businesses.