Senior Application Engineer

Place of work
Twin City B, Mlynské nivy, Bratislava, Slovakia (Job with occasional home office)
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
2 700 - 4 500 EUR/monthFor Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between [EUR 2,700] and [EUR 4,500] per month (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers: • the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role, • the applicant’s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience. In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements. Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits. Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Are you a motivated and hardworking individual contributor wanting to play a key role in supporting the development of key financial applications? Are you looking for a superb role where you can demonstrate your skills, broaden your horizons, keep learning and bring your own innovative ideas? If yes, then join our team and be part of our journey in delivering a program that will significantly improve our Treasury and Financial Closing capabilities!

In this role you will:
• Join a distributed DevOps team focusing on Finance applications, driving continuous improvement and be a key person in demanding projects.
• Contribute to the design, implementation and maintenance of new features / interfaces of our platforms, ensuring the delivery of high-quality code focusing on simplicity, performance, maintainability and scalability.
• Support the full life-cycle of various applications and components.
• Investigate and address security and compliance topics within our domain.
• Help us appraise and then deliver new, innovative and creative ideas & technologies to evolve our platforms.

About the Team
Cash Management Treasury IT is a dynamic globally distributed international IT team providing change and support for a suite of applications serving Swiss Re's Group Finance function. The diverse set of functions and applications, operating in a landscape that never stands still, ensures that no two days are the same and offers opportunities for the keen learner to absorb and get exposed to key financial processes used throughout the world. We value agility in our approaches, stability for our platforms and a passion to learn.
The team you will join is just starting its migration to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Azure DevOps will be used for issue tracking, source control and pipeline management. Team members will have the opportunity to work with platforms such as the Azure Spring Apps, Application Insights, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Data Lake Storage and Azure SQL.

Employee perks, benefits

You can look forward to extra rewards and benefits including:
- Attractive performance-based bonus
- Ultra flexible working time in hybrid setup, allowing you to work also from home
- Modern office spaces in attractive location
- 5 additional days of holiday
- Lunch allowance fully paid by Swiss Re
- Referral bonus
- Pension & risk insurance contribution
- Sick days and sick leave support
- Public transport benefit
- Multisport card

Information about the selection process

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

We provide feedback to all candidates via email. If you have not heard back from us, please check your spam folder.

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)
Postgraduate (Doctorate)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

You are results driven, comfortable meeting (sometimes tight) deadlines and demonstrate a willingness to develop your skills and knowledge about the platforms you will be working on, both the technical aspects and how they are used by our business partners. You are an inventive problem solver - yet knowing when to seek help when necessary. You enjoy working in an agile environment, have an accomplished delivery record, confident in technical conversations.

Finally, you possess a diverse range of skills and experience that you wish to enlarge and improve, including (but are not limited to) the following:

Expected
• Professional work experience in development and support of software applications
• Relational database experience (DML, DDL, modelling, tuning, ETL) - MS SQL preferred
• Experience in workflow orchestration and scheduling
• DevOps experience (familiarity with CI/CD tools)
• Experience with scripting (Windows & Linux)
• Understanding of the key ITIL processes of incident, problem and release management
• Ability to collaborate in globally distributed team

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Brief description of the company

As the world's leading and most diversified global reinsurer, we offer as our core business financial services products that enable risk taking essential to enterprise and progress. Our company was founded in Zurich, Switzerland in 1863, and operates in more than 25 countries and provides its expertise and services to clients throughout the world. We combine financial strengths with experience, knowledge and creative thought to explore new opportunities in the interests of our clients, staff and shareholders.

Number of employees

1700 and more employees

Company address

Contact

Contact person: Livia Pasztorova

ID: 5103076  Dátum zverejnenia: 19.6.2025  Základná zložka mzdy (brutto): 2 700 EUR/month