ABOUT US
We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value – across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we’re proud to support the global economy.
We’re unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value – a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We’re always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.
Swift provides a global financial communications platform, standards, products, and services to over 11,000 customers in 215 countries and territories. Our employees are the foundation of this success. Swift has a unique corporate mind-set, where diversity, personal development and networking are actively encouraged. We believe you will appreciate our office culture, which fosters excellence through collaboration and interaction in a community-driven environment.
If you want to be part of our dynamic, multicultural institution with over 2,400 employees of 75 nationalities in 26 offices worldwide, explore the vast opportunities, rewards and internationally competitive packages waiting for you at Swift.
Standards are a cornerstone of the financial industry. They provide a common language for international financial messaging that is unambiguous and machine-readable, enabling efficient automation, reducing costs and mitigating risks. Swift’s Standards and Market Infrastructures group develops financial messaging standards and supporting products and services for the community.
The migration to ISO 20022, supporting richer and more structured data, is central to Swift’s strategy to enable an instant, frictionless, interoperable and inclusive future for payments. The need for applications and services supporting this standard is now more critical than ever. Today is your opportunity to contribute to this evolution.
The Standards Value-Added Services team develops solutions, reusable components and business-specific libraries for message identification, validation, transformation and visualisation. These components are deployed in critical Swift products and services to enable fast, interoperable financial messaging within Swift and at customer premises.
We are looking for a motivated and delivery‑focused Java Developer to join the Swift Translator team in Kuala Lumpur. You will contribute to the tooling used to automate the creation and deployment of reusable standards artefacts, and to the development, maintenance and support of the Swift Translator product and related integration components.
Swift Translator is a critical product enabling the validation and transformation of financial messages within vendor solutions, Swift products and core internal services. Given its criticality, we place strong emphasis on software quality, robustness and operational stability.
You will:
Work as part of a cross‑functional SCRUM development team, supported by a Product Owner and technical leads located in Belgium or Malaysia.
Collaborate with the Product Owner, technical leads and a co‑located Business Analyst to understand user stories and implement solutions aligned with agreed requirements and technical designs.
Contribute to the development, maintenance and enhancement of Java‑based components of the Swift Translator product and its integration tooling.
Contribute to technical discussions and design reviews, providing input while following established architectural and design guidelines.
Apply non‑functional requirements such as performance, security, resilience and operational stability when implementing solutions.
Contribute to build, deployment and CI/CD activities supporting reliable and repeatable releases.
Participate in code reviews and ensure that assigned code contributions follow agreed coding standards and quality practices.
Collaborate with testers to implement and maintain automated tests and to improve overall software quality.
Participate in production support activities, including incident analysis and resolution, when required and under established support processes..
Ensure that design, development and testing activities are performed in line with internal processes, controls and quality expectations.
Deliver assigned components or features end‑to‑end under the guidance of technical leads and within team commitments.
Demonstrate a continuous improvement mindset and contribute ideas to improve the way we work, the tools we use and the software we produce.
Collaborate effectively with team members located in Malaysia and Europe within a distributed and multicultural environment.
Solid knowledge and hands‑on experience in Java development, including object‑oriented programming principles and common design patterns.
Hands-on experience with the Java Swing framework.
Hands‑on experience with automated testing technologies (JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, etc.).
Experience with common software development tools and platforms (e.g. Git, IntelliJ, Maven, Jenkins, Jira, npm, Windsurf, etc.).
Experience with messaging and parsing technologies (e.g. parsing, validation and transformation of XML, XSD, XSLT and JSON).
Experience with web application technologies (e.g. React, React testing libraries, Jest, JSON, HTTP APIs) is a strong asset.
Understanding of web and application security concepts (e.g. OWASP Top 10)
Quality‑oriented and collaborative team player with an Agile mindset.
Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with a structured and pragmatic approach.
Proactive and delivery‑oriented, comfortable working hands‑on to meet team objectives.
Ability to work effectively in a distributed and multicultural environment, with guidance from senior team members when needed.
Experience or strong interest in financial messaging standards and payment systems (e.g. MT, ISO 20022) is a strong asset.
Exposure to CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, CloudBees) is a strong asset.
Fluent in English (spoken and written).
University degree in IT or equivalent
3–5 years of relevant software development experience, with proven contribution to the development and maintenance of complex software systems.
What we offer
We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.
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Don’t meet every single requirement? At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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