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 distributed ledger technology (DLT) companies 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.
Sygnum holds a banking licence in Switzerland and has Capital Markets Services 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 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 sygnum.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
Our values
A key pillar of our success is the Sygnum values that define and unite us a team. We proudly call them our SYGN values:
- S stands for the importance we hold in Seeking and seizing opportunities, and the way we take personal ownership for delivering results for our clients;
- Y represents the way we say Yes to integrity and humility in everything we do. Sygnumers always display confidence without attitude;
- G reminds us to always Grow and win together. We only succeed by supporting each other and challenging ourselves, and our team-mates, to reach for new heights;
- N stands for Nose for value because we are always looking to focus on what matters most to our clients, partners and team.
Sygnum has one of the most diverse teams in the industry. We believe in an open work culture, productive and energised teams, and are proud to build solutions at the forefront of the industry. In the spirit of our SYGN value to “grow and win together” we fully embrace an equal opportunity mindset in the way we onboard, develop and promote our team members.
About The Role
We’re seeking a Site Reliability Engineer who is ready to work with new technologies and architectures in a forward-thinking organization, especially blockchain that’s always pushing boundaries. Here, you will take complete, end-to-end ownership of our applications. You will have experience building products across the stack and a firm understanding of web frameworks, APIs, databases, and multiple back- end languages. You’ll be joining an amazing team working at the forefront of new technology, solving the challenges that impact both the front- end and back- end architecture, and ultimately, deliver amazing global user experiences.
You can expect the following:
- Provide input for ensuring scalability, reliability and fault-tolerant production applications.
- Design, build and maintain containerized, 12-factor microservices across a hybrid cloud setup.
- Advance, perfect and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Provide input on Incident Management strategies as well as hands on development and evolution of the logging flow and alerting.
- Be responsible for delivery of complex projects across the organization.
- Provide self-service access tools and solutions for engineers to quickly and securely deploy their applications in production.
- Analyse and improve the security of systems while maintaining usability.
Our Ideal Candidate
- At least 1 year of experience in backend software development with any programming language (TypeScript, NodeJS, Java, Go, etc.).
- Knowledge in architecting, building and securely maintaining infrastructure running on AWS (preferrably), Azure or GCP in an immutable (declarative) fashion.
- Experience with Docker and orchestrators such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or ECS.
- Experience with designing, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (preferably with GitLab) and IaC, preferrably Terraform.
- Familiar with DevOps practices and can advance them among peers, DevSecOps practices and with building/adhering to a Secure SDLC.
- Experience with meeting strict SLOs in production services.
- Knowledge of event-driven microservice architecture, including custom-event processing (preferably Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink).
- Knowledge of integrating and deploying service discovery securely (preferably with Consul/Envoy).
Our offer
Joining Sygnum means being part of a dynamic, global team that is building a trusted gateway between the traditional and digital asset economies. Working at Sygnum, you will experience our fast-paced, exciting work environment that embraces meritocracy, collaboration and open communication. Alongside our ambitious long-term vision, we also come together for reaching important milestones and annual crypto-industry anniversaries like Bitcoin Pizza Day, and regularly celebrate our joint achievements at company events as part of our journey to shape Future Finance.
Sygnum offers a comprehensive package of benefits for all team members. They include:
- Attractive combination of market salaries and entrepreneurial incentive scheme
- Flexible / Work from home policies / Professional development via our inhouse Mentoring and Buddy programmes as well as targeted training opportunities
- One-month fully paid sabbatical after five years of continuous employment
- Option to buy additional vacation via our FLEXY Days programme
If you are passionate about the potential of blockchain to share Future Finance and your profile is a good fit for this position, please send us your CV today!
