Senior Software Engineer, Core Banking

Salesforce Sites; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 150.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Salary incentives

Flexible/work from home policies

Mentoring and buddy programs

One-month fully paid sabbatical after

annual crypto-industry anniversaries

Zusammenfassung

Sygnum in Switzerland (Zurich region) seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Core Banking to bridge digital asset solutions with our core banking platform. You will design and maintain API-based features including balance retrieval, transfers, payments, trading, and messaging to meet evolving client and business needs.

You will also drive scalability across domains, contribute to CI/CD improvements, and ensure high reliability.

Qualifikationen

• Expertise in Java (21+)
• Expertise in Quarkus (or Spring)
• Experience with RDBMS (Postgres)
• Kafka experience
• Redis caching experience
• REST API design (API-first)
• Microservices, event-driven architecture
• Docker and containerization
• Kubernetes
• AWS beneficial
• TypeScript and UI framework (React/Angular) beneficial

Aufgaben

• Develop new features and improve code quality with comprehensive tests
• Improve security and reduce technical debt
• Respond to production incidents and restore service continuity
• Collaborate to enhance CI/CD pipelines and release processes
• Collaborate with site reliability engineers and architects to optimize availability and observability
• Mentor and guide junior software engineers

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Posting Title Senior Software Engineer, Core Banking

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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 sygnum.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Our Values

Sygnum has one of the most diverse teams in the industry. Diversity plays a central role in keeping our work culture open, our teams productive and energised, and our 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

About the role You will join a team of engineers responsible for building processes and interfaces that connect Sygnum’s digital asset solutions with our core banking platform. Your work will ensure seamless synchronization between digital assets and core banking operations. As a senior software engineer, you will play a key role in advancing these integrations across business domains, driving scalability for booking processes, and ensuring the quality and reliability of our systems. You will also design and maintain API-based features (such as balance retrieval, account transfers, payments, trading, and messaging) to meet evolving client and business needs.

Your main responsibilities

• Actively participate in developing new features and improvements by writing and reviewing high-quality, secure code with comprehensive test coverage
• Constantly enhance the quality and security of applications, identifying existing technical debt and making plans to repay it
• Respond to production incidents promptly and efficiently, collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and restore service continuity
• Collaborate with platform engineers to enhance CI/CD pipelines and streamline release processes
• Collaborate with site reliability engineers and solution architects to optimize application availability, resilience, and observability
• Nurture and guide more junior software engineers through coaching and mentoring

What will make you stand out

• Expertise in Java (21+)
• Expertise in Quarkus (or Spring)
• Expertise in working with RDBMS (ideally Postgres).
• Working experience with utilizing Kafka.
• Working experience with caching frameworks (ideally Redis)
• Designing flexible and robust REST APIs with an API-first approach.
• Understanding microservices, event-driven architecture and being able to implement complex functionality with high quality and security.
• Working knowledge of Docker and containerization
• Experience working with Kubernetes.
• Experience working with AWS is beneficial.
• Experience working with Typescript and with some UI framework (React, Angular) is beneficial

Our engineering culture

• 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.

Our Offer

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 and collaboration and open communication. Alongside our ambitious long-term mission, we also come together for reaching important milestones and annual crypto-industry anniversaries like Bitcoin Pizza Day, and regularly celebrate together at themed 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 at home policies
• Professional development via Mentoring and Buddy programs
• One-month fully paid sabbatical after five years of continuous employment