Senior Application Engineer

Location: Bratislava, SK

Shape the Future of Financial Technology

Reliable financial operations depend on modern enterprise applications, trusted data, and intelligent automation. By combining software engineering, workflow automation, and modern data platforms, we build solutions that streamline business processes, improve operational resilience, and enable informed decision-making across critical financial functions.

We’re looking for a Senior Application Engineer who combines strong software engineering skills with business understanding to design, build, and operate enterprise applications, workflow solutions, and data-driven products that support critical financial and operational processes.

About the Role

As a Senior Application Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and delivering enterprise applications that support business-critical financial processes. You will work closely with business stakeholders, solution architects, product owners, and engineering teams to transform complex business requirements into scalable, maintainable, and user-focused solutions.

This role combines software engineering, workflow automation, data engineering, and solution architecture. You will design and develop applications, automate business processes, integrate enterprise systems, and build data-driven capabilities that improve operational efficiency and transparency.

You will work across a modern technology landscape that includes Palantir Foundry, Camunda, Python-based services, APIs, cloud technologies, and other enterprise platforms depending on business needs. While experience with Palantir Foundry is highly valued, we welcome engineers with experience in comparable modern platforms who are eager to learn.

About the Team

The Tech & Data Management team consists of professionals located in Zurich, Bratislava, and Kansas City. We develop and operate technology and data solutions that improve operational efficiency, strengthen resilience, and support critical financial and business processes.

We combine expertise in data engineering, analytics, software engineering, and solution architecture to deliver business value across a diverse enterprise technology landscape.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering and Architecture

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise applications, workflow automation, APIs, integrations, and data-driven solutions that support financial and operational processes.
• Build scalable data pipelines, transformations, data models, and reusable data products using modern platforms such as Palantir Foundry, Camunda, and Python-based technologies.
• Define end-to-end application and data architectures, integration patterns, workflows, and data flows aligned with business goals, enterprise standards, and engineering best practices.
• Promote high-quality engineering standards, software quality, security controls, DevSecOps, and automation practices.
• Support CI/CD, platform modernization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and help teams deliver scalable, maintainable enterprise solutions.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand objectives, challenges, and requirements.
• Facilitate workshops and translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Explain technical concepts clearly and advise on applications, automation, data engineering, and solution design.

Qualifications

Required

• Experience developing enterprise software applications, business applications, or data-intensive solutions.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python for application development, automation, and backend services.
• Experience designing scalable enterprise applications and system integrations.
• Experience working with REST APIs, integration patterns, and distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles, solution architecture, and modern application design.
• Experience with SQL, relational databases, and working with large datasets.
• Understanding of data engineering concepts including data pipelines, data modeling, transformations, and data quality.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with enterprise platforms such as Palantir Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, or similar technologies.
• Experience with Camunda or similar platforms for workflow automation or business process management
• Experience building business applications, analytical applications, or internal enterprise tools.
• Experience with Azure services, cloud-native architectures, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of financial services, financial operations, or enterprise business processes.

Note: Direct experience with Palantir Foundry or Camunda is not required. We welcome candidates with strong software engineering experience who have worked with comparable enterprise platforms and are eager to learn new technologies

For Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between [EUR 2,800] and [EUR 4,600] 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.