About HQLAᵡ

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HQLAᵡ is an innovative financial technology firm that leverages Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to deliver efficiencies to the global securities finance and repo industry. Its platform enables banks and asset managers to achieve frictionless, precise, and real-time collateral mobility. Learn more at: www.hqla-x.com

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

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Job Description  

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The HQLAᵡ platform enables secure, private, and precise ownership transfers using distributed ledger technology. It is built on a modern, cloud-native technology stack that includes Kotlin, Spring Boot, ActiveMQ, Gradle, Ansible, Docker, Canton/Daml, and Kubernetes-based container orchestration platforms. We integrate with external systems using message queues, APIs, and Swift.

Our engineering team is critical to the success of the HQLAᵡ collateral exchange platform. As a Software Engineer, you work in an agile environment of geographically distributed teams. You develop key platform components of the HQLAᵡ platform, implementing business logic and workflows, including distributed ledger code.

Leading institutions in the financial sector use our platform. You ensure that platform design and implementation meet stringent requirements for correctness, security, resilience, operational stability, and confidentiality.

Beyond your passion for software engineering, you are comfortable collaborating with external partners and stakeholders. You participate in threat-modelling sessions and architectural assessments. As a member of the engineering team, you also participate in an on-call rotation to support production operations.

HQLAᵡ has offices in Luxembourg, Zug (Switzerland), and London (UK). This position is based in Luxembourg or can be performed remotely (within Europe).

An attractive and competitive benefits package is included.

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Minimum Qualifications

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• Master's degree in computer science with a strong foundation in computer-science fundamentals, including databases, concurrency, security, and networking  
• At least three years of software engineering experience using Kotlin, Scala, or Java, and the JVM.
• Proven track record of meaningful contributions to a development team delivering a production-grade system at scale
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving ability, and communication skills  
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic and evolving environment  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

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Preferred Qualifications

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• Experience with functional or strongly typed programming paradigms
• Experience with Canton / Daml or other distributed transaction or ledger technologies
• Experience deploying and operating services in containerized environments, including Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms
• Experience with relational databases, message-driven architectures, and Public Key Infrastructure

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Interested in this role?

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Please apply in English at careers@hqla-x.com

HQLA^X is committed to building a diverse team. We encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply.