Software Engineer - Finance Core Platform

About the role

Lastminutecom's Finance Core Platform handles thousands of daily transactions, partner reconciliations and complex billing operations. The company is looking for a Software Engineer to build robust, high-throughput microservices that power its core financial flows. The role is based in Chiasso, Switzerland, in a hybrid setup, within the Finance Engineering team.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain high-quality software for the core financial platforms, ensuring resilience, performance and scalability across global transactions.
• Write and test software using TDD, DDD, Clean Code and SOLID principles, and build applications able to handle millions of requests per day.
• Work with architects to define technical solutions, system architecture and cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on CI/CD pipelines.
• Own delivery quality, system performance, reliability and scalability across the Finance Core Platform.
• Solve complex domain issues while understanding the underlying business and financial requirements.
• Share knowledge, run pair programming and mentor peer engineers, and influence engineers across the product engineering department.

Required profile

• Strong hands-on experience as a Software Engineer with OO/FP languages, focused on the JVM ecosystem (Java or Kotlin).
• Proven experience with the Spring / Spring Boot ecosystem.
• Analytical skills, with the ability to turn complex business and financial needs into technical solutions.
• Growth mindset, collaborative attitude and full fluency in written and spoken English.
• Desirable: experience in product-centric companies or fast-paced startups, XP practices, AWS, microservices and Kubernetes, and asynchronous messaging (RabbitMQ, Kafka).

What we offer

• Permanent full-time contract (36 hours per week) with a shorter working week and flexible start and end times.
• Half a day on Fridays dedicated to deep work, learning and training.
• Training paths, e-learning platforms and internal training content.
• Two paid days off per year for volunteering, occasional social events, travel industry discounts and staff fares.
• Leave options for life events in line with local laws.