Senior Software Engineer Platform (on-site or Europe)

Posted on August 23, 2025
Zurich
Permanent
Posted on August 23, 2025

About this role

Salary: CHF 110’000 - 130’000 per year

Requirements:
  • You'll be a good match for us if you're experienced with the following concepts and platform requirements:
  • Zero-downtime / HA / high-resilience
  • Soft-realtime computing (guaranteed latencies and failsafes)
  • Sandboxing of 'untrusted' 3rd party code/modules
  • Willingness to engage with technical and business stakeholders for initial design and prototyping of a greenfield project
  • Flexibility in tech stack
Responsibilities:
  • We're building a next-generation payments processing platform. As part of the core platform team, you will be working on the host system that will provide FaaS-like capabilities to other internal teams and 3rd parties. As one of the initial members of the core platform team you will take an active part in designing and engineering the critical components of the product. Therefore we need you to be able to take responsibility, be communicative and easy going. At Rivero we believe that while progress comes from individual effort, we can only succeed as a team.
Technologies:
  • Cloud
  • FaaS
  • Hardware
  • Mobile

More:

About Rivero
Rivero is a successful Fintech startup founded in early 2019 on a mission to enable banks and financial institutions to automate complex processes most simply and efficiently. In this way, banks can focus on delighting their customers with streamlined digital interfaces. If you want to label it, we fall into both the #FinTech and the #RegTech domain.
We have steadily grown our customer base and offer a unique opportunity to join us for the exciting growth phase ahead.
Tasks
What is it like to work at Rivero
We work in product-based, small and interdisciplinary teams. We are ambitious and excited about our mission. We know that there are many exciting challenges ahead, but we are excited and value these opportunities to learn and grow.
We value self-awareness and strive for confident humility. We actively engage with our customers to shape our products. We listen to them with empathy to truly understand and address their needs and pain points.
We are radically transparent in communication and, at the same time, open-minded to questions, informed comments and grounded disagreements.
We believe it is OK to make mistakes but unacceptable not to identify, analyse, and learn from them.
Sounds exciting to you? Do you have such characteristic traits? Do you want to be part of our team? Then continue reading!

Benefits
The little things that matter
We strive to keep our employees happy by creating a pleasant working environment, and below are a few things that we are currently offering:

Great office in a historic building - 2min from Oerlikon station, right next to a park, with a friendly Barista in-house :-)
Our Friday academy sessions cover many topics to learn and grow
Friday happy hours - After a week of hard work, we enjoy having a drink together
Dog-friendly office
Your choice of hardware and mobile subscription included
Company share options included

Interested?
Then, simply send us a few lines about yourself, why you would like to join Rivero, and your CV and/or portfolio.
We will only consider applicants from Europe; please indicate if youre applying for a fully remote or an on-site position.

last updated 34 week of 2025

Salary

CHF 110’000 - 130’000 per year
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