Senior Software Engineering Manager - Trading, Risk and Tokenization (80-100%)

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, tokenization and B2B services. In Switzerland, Sygnum holds a banking and securities dealer license, and in Singapore we operate under Capital Markets Services and Major Payment Institution Licenses. 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 www.sygnum.com.

About the role

We are seeking a seasoned and dynamic Senior Engineering Manager to lead and guide multiple product engineering teams working on software applications and services in the areas of Risk Management, Trading and Tokenization. This is a critical role in driving technical excellence, enhancing team performance and fostering the personal growth of the team members through servant leadership.

As a Senior Engineer Manager, you will balance your time between deep technical engagements and empowering your teams to deliver exceptional results. In this role, you will have line management responsibilities for 3 to 5 Tech Leads.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor tech leads and their teams, fostering a culture of high performance, quality and execution.
• Set clear expectations and goals for tech leads and their teams, regularly providing constructive feedback.
• Provide guidance on architecture decisions, code quality and software design that results in better quality, security, scalability and resilience.
• Work with Tech Leads to define and drive the technical roadmap in alignment with Sygnum’s strategic objectives.
• Partner with product and design leaders to develop and execute a cohesive product and technical strategy.
• Champion a customer-first approach, ensuring that engineering efforts are aligned with user needs and company goals.
• Promote a psychologically safe space where everyone feels they can contribute to improving things.

This is a great opportunity if:

• You like coaching and mentoring teams to constantly improve their performance.
• You enjoy doing both: technical and people leadership work.
• You have a collaborative and growth mindset.
• You care about quality and security and mentor engineers to bake those aspects in the software development lifecycle.
• You are proactive and get motivated with new opportunities and challenges.

What we expect:

• Good understanding of several agile and product delivery methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, Shape up, Dual Track agile.
• Experience setting up quarterly OKRs for product engineering teams.
• Experience coaching 2-5 engineering teams with proven results on performance improvements.
• Previous experience as Tech Lead developing applications with microservices/event driven architecture using some of the following technologies/frameworks:
• Quarkus/Spring (Java).
• NestJS (Typescript).
• Kafka.
• PostgreSQL.
• Redis.
• React.
• AWS.
• Great understanding of the full development lifecycle and its technologies – Git, CI/CD tools, testing, vulnerability management, release management, observability, incident management.
• Previous experience in Crypto, and Banking (Trading, Core Banking Systems, Risk Management …).

Do you identify with these values and principles?

• Team first mindset. The team above its individuals.
• Our people always first. Everything starts there.
• We deliver frequently, with high quality and security.
• We celebrate success and learn from failures.
• We are pragmatic and look for simplicity.
• We have positive impact. We deliver results.

What we offer:

• The chance to be part of a movement shaping the future of our world’s financial system.
• An amazing, diverse, highly skilled, international and motivated team of professionals.
• Experienced leadership teams who are masters of scale and facilitate smart growth.
• Competitive salary packages and chances to leave individual footprints.
• Language course and gym special conditions.
• Regular team events and gatherings, including Christmas parties, Oktoberfest celebrations, and apero’s, creating plenty of opportunities for fun and laughter.

If you’re passionate for technology and blockchain with a massive worldwide impact, then please send us your CV!