Senior Application Engineer - Zürich, Schweiz - Swiss Re

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    Beschreibung

    Would you like to play a key role in our journey to become a truly service and software driven company? Then, we have the outstanding opportunity for you to join us

    About the role

    Your main goal would be to design new and maintain/extend existing business applications. This role will combine architecture and design work beside business software development. It also requires good interpersonal skills on skills as you will be the main contact person for your product development team to outside parties during all development phases.

    Your responsibilities include:

  • Design and develop code for shared/common components used by all our product development teams
  • Communicate details about common components and develop an open/inner source based sharing culture
  • Guide / support the development teams on involved technology stacks
  • Code Reviews and Quality Assurance: perform detailed code reviews to ensure code quality, consistency coding standards, and maintainability
  • Problem Solving: leverage experience and technical knowledge to resolve critical problems and optimize software performance
  • About the team

    Our team develops, extends and maintains business applications and its interfaces. Both business user group and respective solutions range from very tailored and specialized to large applications for hundreds of users. The content covers the use case for data capture, integration, transformation to BPM solutions. We closely collaborate with other teams and colleagues around the globe to share knowledge and engineer solutions.

    About you

    Are you looking forward to bringing in your technical expertise and problem-solving abilities to our software development process and drive technical excellence?

    Following skills and experiences are desired:

  • Develop software using Java and Spring Boot, NodeJS and any major UI framework such as Angular and DBMS . PostgreSQL
  • Experience in REST API design and implementation
  • Experience in modern software architecture using synchronous, asynchronous integration technologies using RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, or Kafka, and other technologies
  • Strong analytical skills, address problems in a structured way, joining your own creative ideas and those of others
  • Strong leadership skills to lead a technical product development team
  • Fluent in English, German a plus
  • We are looking forward to reviewing your application

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    About Swiss Re

    Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.

    Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

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