12 months Contract - Java Backend Developer (Through an External Agency Payroll Provider)

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

We are seeking for a senior backend and distributed systems engineer with extensive experience designing, building, and operating mission critical financial systems. Proven expertise in Java based backend architectures, distributed systems, and low latency, high availability services. Strong production mindset with end to end ownership across the full software lifecycle—from architecture and design through deployment, operations, and optimization. Comfortable acting as a technical authority in complex, globally distributed environments.

In addition to enhancing our core platform, the team is building a strategic new channel that brings investment capabilities directly to the bank's external clients through seamless integration with the e-banking platform. Engineers joining the team will have the opportunity to shape the architecture, scalability, and operational model of this highly visible initiative from an early stage.

Note: This is a 12 months contract role with an external agency payroll provider.

YOUR CHALLENGE

Design and evolve robust distributed systems, balancing scalability, latency, consistency, and fault tolerance

Apply distributed systems principles (e.g. consistency models, idempotency, back-pressure, resiliency patterns) to real‑world financial workloads

Develop and maintain high‑performance backend services and APIs using Java,…