Lausanne, Switzerland Hybrid Full-time

Light Frame is hiring a Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain high-quality backend services.
  • Develop and optimize core banking modules, including account management, transactions, and compliance workflows.
  • Integration of AI and machine learning capabilities to drive automation, intelligent decisioning, and productivity gains for our clients.
  • Build, deploy, and optimize cloud-native applications using Infrastructure as Code, automated CI/CD pipelines, and robust monitoring.
  • Ensure applications are highly scalable, resilient, performant, and aligned with cloud best practices.
  • Collaborate on frontend development to create intuitive, user-friendly interfaces for banking and wealth management workflows.
  • Ensure seamless end-to-end integration between frontend and backend systems.
  • Contribute to architectural evolution, including domain-driven design, module boundaries, and long-term maintainability.
  • Participate in key architectural decisions, code reviews, and technical discussions to maintain the highest engineering standards.
  • Write clean, testable code and implement comprehensive automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end).
  • Embed security best practices throughout the development lifecycle and support fintech regulatory and compliance requirements.
  • Work closely with product, design, and engineering teams in an agile environment.
  • Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers to raise overall team capability.
  • Proactively identify and implement improvements in development processes, system performance, and reliability.
  • Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and champion innovations that strengthen our platform.

Requirements

  • Minimum 10 years of professional software development experience, with strong expertise building SaaS platforms.
  • Hands-on expertise with Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
  • Deep proficiency with AWS cloud services (EC2, RDS, S3, ECS/EKS, etc.), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent), and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Strong command of modern software engineering practices: CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and secure coding.
  • Excellent problem-solving abilities and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have

  • Experience developing banking or fintech software is strongly preferred.

Benefits

  • A unique opportunity to be part of a senior team working on mission-critical fintech infrastructure in the heart of Switzerland’s Lake Geneva region.
  • Competitive compensation, benefits, and the chance to shape the future of private banking technology.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — Lausanne, Switzerland

Additional Information

  • This role is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Hybrid work model requiring 3 days per week in the office and the remaining days remote.
Required Skills
Domain-driven Design
About company
Light Frame

Light Frame is the result of deep operational knowledge — founded by leaders who have built and led banks and technology companies across Europe.

To enable private banks and wealth managers to perpetually deliver modern services without legacy system constraints — through a secure, composable, cloud-native infrastructure designed in Switzerland.

Our founders are seasoned banking executives who built Alpian’s digital private bank from the ground up and helped implement, integrate, and operate core banking and portfolio management systems at JPMorgan and REYL. From compliance to scalability, we bring a practitioner’s mindset to the banking architecture.

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Job Details
Department Software Development
Category backend
Posted 21 days ago