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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Avaloq
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Confluence, JIRA, Code Review, Databases, Payment Systems, Oracle (Applications), Software Engineering, PL-SQL, SQL Databases, Backend
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-pl-sql-avaloq-9009461

## About the Role

* Strong database and data-modelling skills (Oracle and SQL/PL/SQL or equivalent), with a focus on correctness, performance and operability
 * Proven ability to lead process analysis and requirements work - facilitating workshops, resolving ambiguity, and translating business outcomes into implementable solutions
 * Strong ownership mindset in incident response and defect triage; ability to communicate impact, options and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field; Master's degree preferred
 * Strong product mindset and experience working in Agile teams (Jira, Confluence), including backlog refinement and stakeholder alignment.
 * Avaloq Certification or Avaloq Knowledge

## Description

* Lead the design, implementation and operation of backend services in the Payments domain, ensuring high standards for reliability, performance, security and maintainability
 * Own critical payment modules end-to-end (architecture, delivery, observability, on-call readiness, lifecycle management) and drive continuous improvement based on operational feedback
 * Facilitate end-to-end process analysis (workflows, customer journeys, exceptions and edge cases) to identify optimisation opportunities and define implementable change proposals
 * Elicit, challenge and refine requirements with stakeholders; translate them into clear user stories, acceptance criteria and technical designs, and ensure alignment on scope, assumptions and success metrics
 * Work across teams (engineering, product, operations, risk/compliance) to shape solution direction, manage dependencies and make well-reasoned trade-offs
 * Produce and maintain high-quality technical and functional documentation (including decision records) to support operational excellence and auditability
 * Raise the engineering bar through code reviews, coaching and pragmatic standards; contribute to hiring and onboarding where needed
 * Own integrations with third-party systems and payment networks, ensuring robust contracts, backwards compatibility, and smooth coordination through testing and rollout, * Extensive experience as a backend Software Engineer, including ownership of design and delivery for production systems (payments or other regulated/transactional domains is a plus)


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