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 scalability of trading processes and ensuring the quality and reliability of our systems. This includes core order execution processes as well as automated settlement and trade monitoring.

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 of the software development life cycle seriously
• 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 (21+)
• Expertise in Quickfix (or Spring)
• Experience of working with relational databases (ideally Postgres)
• Experience of working 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
• Working knowledge of Docker and containerization
• Experience of working with subsystems
• Experience working with AWS is an advantage
• Experience working with TypeScript and a UI framework (React, Angular) is an advantage

Our offer:

• To be part of a dynamic, global team building a trusted interface between the traditional and digital asset economies
• Work in a fast-paced, exciting work environment that promotes memocracy and collaboration and open communication
• Participate in our ambitious long-term mission and celebrate important milestones and annual crypto industry anniversaries such as Bitcoin Pizza Day