Senior Software Engineer, Trading & Lending (80-100%)

Job description: Senior Software Engineer, Trading & Lending (80-100%)

About the role

You will join a team of engineers responsible for building and enhancing Sygnum's electronic trading infrastructure, which includes both spot and derivatives trading.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering new functionality, driving the scalability of trading processes and ensuring the quality and reliability of our systems.

Main tasks:

• Actively participate in the development of new features and enhancements by writing and reviewing high quality, secure code with comprehensive test coverage
• Continuously improve the quality and security of applications, identify existing technical debt and create plans to repay it
• Respond to production incidents promptly and efficiently, working with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and restore service continuity
• Work with platform engineers to improve CI/CD pipelines and optimize release processes
• Collaborate with site reliability engineers and solution architects to optimize application availability, resilience and observability
• help and support junior software engineers through coaching and mentoring

Ideal candidate:

• You like to build scalable backend services based on our tech stack: Java running on AWS
• You have a collaborative and growth-oriented attitude
• You value quality and security and take these aspects into account in the software development life cycle
• You agree to take over the entire development lifecycle, from the design of solutions to the operation of the application in production
• You are proactive and motivated by new opportunities and challenges

What makes you stand out:

• Expertise in Java (5+)
• Experience with Quickfix (or Spring)
• Expertise in working with RDBMS (ideally Postgres)
• Experience in dealing with Kafka
• Experience with caching frameworks (ideally Redis)
• Design flexible and robust REST APIs with an API-first approach
• Understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture and ability to implement complex functions with high quality and security
• Work experience with Docker and containerization
• Experience with subsystems
• Experience with AWS is an advantage
• Experience with Typescript and a UI framework (React, Angular) is an advantage

Our engineering culture:

• Team-first mindset. The team comes before the individuals
• We humans always fail. Everything starts there
• We often deliver with high quality and safety. Yes, that's right
• We celebrate successes and learn from mistakes. The key to a healthy balance
• We are pragmatic and look for simplicity. KISS everywhere
• We have a positive impact. We deliver results

Our offer:

When you join Sygnum, you'll be part of a dynamic, global team building a trusted interface between the traditional and digital asset economies.

Working at Sygnum means you'll experience our fast-paced, exciting work environment that embraces memocracy and collaboration and open communication.

Alongside our ambitious long-term mission, we also come together to achieve key milestones and annual crypto industry anniversaries such as Bitcoin Pizza Day and regularly celebrate at themed company events as part of our journey to shape Future Finance.

Sygnum offers a comprehensive package.