An exciting opportunity exists for a developer to help build HQLAᵡ’s new collateral exchange platform.

Job Description

Our engineering team is critical to the success of the HQLAᵡ platform. As a software engineer, you work in an agile environment of geographically distributed teams and have a sound understanding of security engineering principles. You develop key components of the HQLAᵡ collateral exchange platform. The platform is built based on a modern tech stack that includes Kotlin, Spring Boot, ActiveMQ, Gradle, Ansible, Docker, and Corda.

You improve our platform that is based on R3’s Corda Distributed Ledger Technology. Corda allows businesses to transact directly and privately using smart contracts. These smart contracts are written in Kotlin. We interface with external systems using message queues and RPC.

Our collateral exchange platform is used by industry leaders of the financial sector. You will ensure the platform design is suitable to meet the security, resilience, and confidentiality needs of our clients.

Besides your passion for software engineering, you are comfortable in communicating with our partners such as Deutsche Börse Group and R3. You will support the tech-team in the onboarding process of new clients that includes IT due diligence assessments. As a member of the tech-team you participate in an on-call rota to monitor our production system.

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HQLAᵡ has offices in Luxembourg, Zug (Switzerland) and London (UK). This opportunity exists in Luxembourg and in Zug.

Attractive and competitive benefits package included.

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Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science. We expect a solid knowledge of computer science fundamentals. Areas of importance include databases, concurrency, security, and networking.
• Three years of software engineering experience with Kotlin, Java, or other JVM targeting languages.
• Track record of significant contribution to a development team that created a successful product of significant scale.
• Proactive, critical thinking, interpersonal skills, technological analysis, research.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, challenging environment; able to adapt easily to change.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

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Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with functional programming.
• Knowledge of Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technologies such as Corda, Hyperledger Fabric, Ethereum.
• Experience with relational database management systems, messages queues, and Public Key Infrastructure.

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About HQLAᵡ

HQLAᵡ is a partnership of financial market veterans focused on providing corporate and bank treasurers with a cost effective, standardised, transparent and scalable market solution to transfer liquidity more efficiently.

The HQLAᵡ platform uses R3’s distributed ledger technology (Corda) to record ownership of baskets of securities. Through its strong partnership with Deutsche Börse Group, HQLAᵡ has been able to integrate seamlessly with existing market infrastructure.

More information on HQLAᵡ is available here: www.hqla-x.com For press releases on HQLAᵡ’s launch and previous milestones, see https://www.hqla-x.com/news

Interested in this role? Contact us at careers@hqla-x.com

Please note that only personal applications (no agency) in English will be considered.

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