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Senior Software Engineer, Custody Value Stream (80-100%)

Sygnum is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Custody Value Stream team in Zurich, which focuses on developing secure, scalable, and innovative solutions for digital asset management services. The ideal candidate is passionate about developing backend services, has a collaborative attitude, and is committed to quality and security.

Tasks

The Custody Value Stream is a cross-functional team dedicated to the secure custody of digital assets, our front office, and our regulated digital asset bank. As part of a regulated digital asset bank, we are entrusted with the secure custody of client assets and place security, compliance, and operational integrity at the center of all our activities. We operate in an agile, product-led environment, bringing together specialists from product management, engineering, and architecture to deliver secure, scalable, end-to-end solutions for the custody of digital assets.

Your main tasks

  • Be the owner of the delivery of features from start to finish—from creating and reviewing secure, well-tested code to confidently operating in production.
  • Drive continuous improvement in application quality and security, and treat technical debt as a risk that must be actively managed.
  • Ensure the platform is reliable by working across engineering disciplines—CI/CD, SRE, and architecture—to increase availability, resilience, and observability.
  • Promote the team's capabilities by mentoring junior engineers and raising engineering standards by example.

Requirements

Our ideal candidate:
  • Passionate about building scalable backend services using the latest industry standards
  • A collaborative and growth-oriented spirit
  • Concerns about quality and security and consideration of these aspects in the software development life cycle
  • Are you familiar with taking responsibility for the entire development lifecycle, from solution development to application operation in production?
  • Are you proactive and motivated by new opportunities and challenges?

What makes you stand out

  • Expert knowledge in TypeScript and/or Java
  • Expertise in security and applied cryptography
  • Expert knowledge in an industry framework such as NestJS, Spring, or Quarkus
  • Expertise in working with RDBMS (ideally Postgres)
  • Work experience with Kafka
  • Experience with distributed systems and infrastructure
  • Designing flexible and robust REST APIs with an API-first approach
  • Understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture, and the ability to implement complex functionalities with high quality and security
  • Work experience with Docker and containerization
  • Experience with Kubernetes is an advantage
  • Experience with AWS is an advantage

We offer

  • Attractive combination of market salaries and corporate incentive system
  • Flexible/Remote Work Policy

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