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 distributed ledger technology (DLT) companies 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, tokenisation and B2B services.


Sygnum holds a banking licence in Switzerland and has Capital Markets Services and Major Payment Institution Licences in Singapore. The group is also regulated in the established global financial hubs of Abu Dhabi and Luxembourg.


We believe that 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 sygnum.com and follow us on Linked In and X.


Our values


A key pillar of our success is the Sygnum values that define and unite us a team. We proudly call them our SYGN values:

• S stands for the importance we hold in Seeking and seizing opportunities, and the way we take personal ownership for delivering results for our clients;
• Y represents the way we say Yes to integrity and humility in everything we do. Sygnumers always display confidence without attitude;
• G reminds us to always Grow and win together. We only succeed by supporting each other and challenging ourselves, and our team-mates, to reach for new heights;
• N stands for Nose for value because we are always looking to focus on what matters most to our clients, partners and team.

Sygnum has one of the most diverse teams in the industry. We believe in an open work culture, productive and energised teams, and are proud to build solutions at the forefront of the industry. In the spirit of our SYGN value to “grow and win together” we fully embrace an equal opportunity mindset in the way we onboard, develop and promote our team members.


About The Role

You will be part of the team of engineers which builds Sygnum’s multi-region brokerage and custody solution.
As a member of the team, you will play a key role in developing our secure admin portal solution. This platform streamlines client portfolio and investment management, allowing internal users to efficiently handle client needs with the highest level of security. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse set of departments across both technology and business domains, making an essential contribution to Sygnum’s ongoing success.

• Actively participate in developing new features and improvements by writing and reviewing high-quality, secure code with comprehensive test coverage
• Constantly enhance the quality and security of applications, identifying existing technical debt and making plans to repay it
• Respond to production incidents promptly and efficiently, collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and restore service continuity
• Collaborate with platform engineers to enhance CI/CD pipelines and streamline release processes
• Collaborate with SRE engineers and solution architects to optimize application availability, resilience, and observability
• Nurture and guide more junior software engineers through coaching and mentoring

Our Ideal Candidate

• Minimum of 3 years of experience developing scalable backend services based on our tech-stack: Javascript running on AWS.

• You have a collaborative and growth mindset
• You care about quality and security and bake those aspects in the software development lifecycle
• You are comfortable taking ownership of the whole development lifecycle, from designing solutions to running the application in production
• You are proactive and get motivated with new opportunities and challenges

Few things that will help on the job:

• Expertise in Typescript, React JS and Nest JS
• Expertise in working with RDBMS (ideally Postgres)
• Previous experience in writing, testing and maintaining brokerage and custody system is a plus

• Designing flexible and robust REST APIs with an API first approach
• Understanding microservices, event driven architecture and being able to implement complex functionality with high quality and security
• Working knowledge of Docker and containerization
• Experience of working with Kubernetes is beneficial
• Experience of working with AWS is beneficial

Our Engineering Culture: 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, that’s 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.

Our offer

Joining Sygnum means being part of a dynamic, global team that is building a trusted gateway between the traditional and digital asset economies. Working at Sygnum, you will experience our fast-paced, exciting work environment that embraces meritocracy, collaboration and open communication. Alongside our ambitious long-term vision, we also come together for reaching important milestones and annual crypto-industry anniversaries like Bitcoin Pizza Day, and regularly celebrate our joint achievements at company events as part of our journey to shape Future Finance.


Sygnum offers a comprehensive package of benefits for all team members. They include:

• Attractive combination of market salaries and entrepreneurial incentive scheme
• Flexible/Work from home policies
• Professional development via our inhouse Mentoring and Buddy programmes as well as targeted training opportunities
• One-month fully paid sabbatical after five years of continuous employment
• Option to buy additional vacation via our FLEXY Days programme

If you are passionate about the potential of blockchain to share Future Finance and your profile is a good fit for this position, please send us your CV today!