Licensed Swiss digital bank blending everyday banking with wealth management
Alpian is a FINMA-licensed digital bank (2022) running a Java + Spring Boot backend on GCP infrastructure with Kafka for event streaming and BigQuery for analytics. The tech stack and active projects reveal a dual-track platform: transactional banking services alongside wealth management and client engagement layers. Current pain points—transaction processing delays and reconciliation breaks—suggest the engineering team (3 senior+ roles, hiring accelerating) is focused on scaling core banking stability while simultaneously building AI-driven customer experience features (LLM platform, agentic workflows, RAG pipelines).
Alpian operates as a digital bank licensed and regulated by FINMA in Switzerland. The product combines everyday banking services—payments, savings, accounts—with private banking and wealth management features (advisory, discretionary mandates, Pillar 3a accounts) in a single mobile and web application. The company targets retail and mass-affluent customers in the Swiss market. With 51–200 employees and active hiring concentrated in engineering and data roles, Alpian is scaling its platform to handle transaction volume and accuracy while adding intelligent wealth management capabilities.
Java, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, BigQuery, GCP, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, Helm, Istio, and Vertex AI for ML workloads.
Wealth management backend services, client engagement services, LLM-powered customer experience platform, agentic workflow systems, and RAG pipelines for data retrieval.
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