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 Sygnums 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 join us in Zurich or Singapore and lead multiple product engineering teams working on software applications and services in the areas of Customer lifecycle, Banking platform, and Web
- 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 Sygnums 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 (Typescrypt)
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. Yup, thats 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.
What we offer
The chance to be part of a movement shaping the future of our worlds 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 aperos, creating plenty of opportunities for fun and laughter
If youre passionate for technology and blockchain with a massive worldwide impact, then please send us your CV!
