The Team
The digital onboarding Scrum team is at the heart of Sygnum’s seamless client experience. Being one of the first touchpoints of our clients’ journey, we package challenging onboarding processes like identity verification and KYC into a frictionless and fast user experience. Behind the scenes, we manage complex compliance workflows and integrations across many systems and teams in order to finally provide our clients with access to the rest of Sygnum’s banking platform.
As a tech lead you will drive these efforts and lead a team dedicated to advancing our digital-first banking vision. We're seeking for a technically skilled and passionate leader ready to innovate in the fintech space, guiding our team towards new heights in digital banking.
The Role
As a tech lead, you are comfortable wearing two hats: tech and management.
With the technical, you will
- Lead a team of software engineers to develop and own state-of-the-art solutions
- Constantly enhance the quality and security of applications, actively managing the quality of the systems
- Actively participate in developing new features and improvements by writing and reviewing high-quality, secure code with comprehensive test coverage
- Collaborate with platform engineers to enhance CI/CD pipelines and streamline release processes
- Collaborate with SRE and solution architects to optimize application availability, resilience, and observability
- Respond to production incidents promptly and efficiently, collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and restore service continuity
With the managerial, you will
- Nurture and guide software engineers through coaching and mentoring
- Enhance the team's efficiency and effectiveness by driving continuous improvement initiatives
- Partner with product managers and stakeholders to plan new features and improvements
- Facilitate blameless retrospectives and post-mortems to foster a culture of learning from mistakes
- Cultivate a psychologically safe environment where every team member feels empowered to contribute meaningfully to the organization's growth
This is a great opportunity for you if
- You like to create scalable backend services based on our tech-stack: Java/Quarkus and NestJS running on AWS.
- You enjoy doing both: technical and people leadership work
- You have a collaborative and growth mindset
- You care about quality and security and bake those aspects in the software development lifecycle
- You are comfortable taking ownership of the whole development lifecycle, from designing solutions to running the application in production
- You are proactive and get motivated with new opportunities and challenge
Few things that will help on the job
- Expertise in TypeScript and Node.js backends (ideally NestJS)
- Expertise in Java (17+) and Java EE (ideally Spring Boot or Quarkus)
- Knowledge in working with RDBMS (ideally PostgreSQL).
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks like ReactJS, Angular, etc.
- Designing flexible and robust REST APIs with an API first approach.
- Understanding microservices, event driven architecture and being able to implement features with focus on resilience, fault tolerance and security.
- Working knowledge of Docker and containerization
- Experience of working with Kubernetes is beneficial.
- Experience of working with AWS is beneficial.
- Prior experience with digital onboarding solutions and KYC within the financial industry is preferred but not required.
- Prior experience in leading an engineering team with focus on quality and delivery.
- Prior experience in dealing with various stakeholders (Business users, IT Architecture, Product Owners, Business Analysts).
Our Engineering Culture
Do you identify with these values and principles?
- Team first mindset. The team above its individuals
- Our people always first. Everything starts there
- We deliver frequently, with high quality and security. Yup, that’s right.
- We celebrate success and learn from failures. The key to a healthy balance.
- We are pragmatic and look for simplicity. KISS everywhere
- We have positive impact. We deliver results.
About Sygnum
Sygnum is a global digital asset banking group, founded on Swiss and Singapore heritage. We empower professional and institutional investors, banks, corporates and DLT foundations to invest in digital assets with complete trust. Our team enables this through our institutional-grade security, expert personal service and portfolio of regulated digital asset banking, asset management, tokenisation and B2B services.
In Switzerland, Sygnum holds a banking licence and has CMS and Major Payment Institution Licences in Singapore. The group is also regulated in the established global financial hubs of Abu Dhabi and Luxembourg.
We believe that the future has heritage. Our crypto-native team of banking, investment and digital asset technology professionals are building a trusted gateway between the traditional and digital asset economies that we call Future Finance. To learn more about how Sygnum’s mission and values are shaping this digital asset ecosystem, please visit www.sygnum.com.
Our Benefits
- The chance to be part of a movement shaping the future of finance.
- Work on new, cutting-edge technology in the blockchain space.
- Chances to leave individual footprints and an amazing, diverse, highly skilled, international, and motivated team of professionals.
- Regular gatherings and team events like Christmas parties, Oktoberfest, Apero’s, hence plenty of jokes and laughs!
If you’re passionate for technology and blockchain with a massive worldwide impact, then please send us your CV!
