Levl

Job Title: Java Backend Engineer

About Us:

levl (www.levl.ch) offers a single unified platform for fast, secure, and cost-effective cross-border payments. Platforms can plug into our payments API, use our dashboard, or OTC desk to send and receive payments for their customers.

levl is incubated and funded by Galaxy Digital, a public financial services firm managing $5b+ AUM, and based out of their European offices. levl’s team previously worked at top payment companies, exchanges, and hedge funds including PayPal, London Stock Exchange, AQR ($150b+ quant fund), Brevan Howard, and Galaxy Digital.

This is an opportunity to join a fast-paced early-stage startup in which you will be given tremendous ownership and autonomy as we launch our first product.

What you’ll be doing:

Working with cross-functional teams to build mission-critical financial services web products. You will be building microservices, API’s, web applications,  and infrastructure to support cross-border payments and related back-office operations. We’re looking for people who have a growth mindset and a history of building world-class web products
 

What you’ll need:

• Minimum 3 years of development of microservices
• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot
• Proficiency with relational databases (ex PostgreSQL)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes etc
• Experience in building cloud-native services using AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience in REST and/or GraphQL API development
• Strong grasp of unit testing principles and testing libraries
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
• Ability to work with others in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to self-organise and deliver high-quality work

Nice to have:

• Experience with blockchain and/or digital assets
• Experience building trading systems (ex FX) or cross-border payment systems
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (ex Terraform, Pulumi)

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

About Us:

levl (www.levl.ch) offers a single unified platform for fast, secure, and cost-effective cross-border payments. Platforms can plug into our payments API, use our dashboard, or OTC desk to send and receive payments for their customers.

levl is incubated and funded by Galaxy Digital, a public financial services firm managing $5b+ AUM, and based out of their European offices. levl’s team previously worked at top payment companies, exchanges, and hedge funds including PayPal, London Stock Exchange, AQR ($150b+ quant fund), Brevan Howard, and Galaxy Digital.

This is an opportunity to join a fast-paced early-stage startup in which you will be given tremendous ownership and autonomy as we launch our first product.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Collaborating with Leadership: Working closely with the CTO and the broader engineering team to support the design and build of cloud infrastructure for our payments platform.
• Automating Infrastructure: Automating the provisioning of AWS cloud environments with a view to improving scalability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This will involve provisioning infrastructure using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Building CI/CD Pipelines: Developing and managing robust continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline our deployment processes, ensuring fast, reliable, and automated application delivery.
• Monitoring & Reliability: Implementing effective health monitoring and alerting systems for the payments platform, ensuring systems are operational, performant, and resilient.
• System Reliability & Performance: Contributing to ongoing efforts to enhance the reliability and performance of our infrastructure, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and minimal downtime.

What You Will Need:

• Proven expertise: Minimum of 5 years experience in a DevOps role with strong hands-on experience with automating the provisioning of AWS infrastructure using tools like Terraform and Terragrunt. 
• Containerisation & Orchestration: Strong hands-on experience with Docker for containerisation and Kubernetes for orchestrating containerised applications. Experience with AWS EKS advantageous.
• Messaging Systems: Knowledge and experience with messaging systems, such as Kafka, for building scalable, event-driven architectures.
• PostgreSQL Database Administration: Familiarity with Postgres database administration and best practices with respect to database:
  • Scaling
  • Migrations
  • Performance optimisation
• Monitoring: Knowledge and experience of building monitoring dashboards and tooling for insight into the health of systems. Experience with tools such as Grafana, k6 etc will be advantageous