Frontend Tech Lead, Software Engineering - Banking Portal Web Application (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, tokenisation and B2B services.

In Switzerland, Sygnum holds a banking licence and has CMS 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 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 sygnum.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Our values

A key pillar of our success are 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 maintaining the highest level of integrity and fairness 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 is here 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. Diversity plays a central role in keeping our work culture open, our teams productive and energised, and our 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

At the Portal team, we’re the heart of Sygnum’s client-facing experience, and our work directly impacts how users interact with their digital assets. Our mission is to create state-of-the-art UI/UX solutions that not only meet but exceed client expectations, keeping their needs at the center of everything we do.

We collaborate closely with Custody, Trading, Tokenization, and Banking Operations teams to ensure our applications are robust, secure, and cutting-edge. But we’re more than just colleagues, we’re a vibrant community that values creativity, innovation, and fun. We believe a supportive and enjoyable work environment fosters collaboration, trust, and proactive problem-solving. Continuous improvement is in our DNA; we rely on data-driven insights to refine our approaches and deliver excellence.

Joining us means being part of a team that’s as committed to quality and user experience as it is to create a workplace you’ll love coming to every day.

As a tech lead, you are comfortable wearing two hats: tech and management.

From a technical perspective, you will:

• Lead a team of software engineers to develop and own state-of-the-art solutions (front and back end).
• Constantly enhance quality and security of the applications.
• Collaborate with Design to improve our client centric products.
• Contribute to writing and reviewing high quality and secured code covered by tests.
• Work with SRE engineers and solution architects to improve the availability, resilience, and observability of the applications.

From a managerial perspective, you will:

• Coach and mentor software engineers in the team.
• Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the team.
• Partner with product managers and stakeholders to plan new features and improvements.
• Drive blameless retros and post-mortems that help the team learn from mistakes.
• Promote a psychologically safe space where everyone feels they can contribute and improve things.

Our ideal candidate

• Fluency in JavaScript, TypeScript, React and Nestjs.
• Designing reusable and extendable components for multiple projects.
• Experience and references as a Frontend Engineer in complex setups.
• Understanding UI & UX to seek the best experience for the user
• Knowledge about data preparation, API first and concept isolation
• Understanding the development lifecycle and its technologies – Git, CI/CD tools, unit testing, vulnerability.
• Expertise on agile frameworks (Scrum, kanban...).
• You are eager to work with FE and BE.
• You enjoy doing both: technical and people leadership work.
• 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.

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 and collaboration and open communication. Alongside our ambitious long-term mission, we also come together for reaching important milestones and annual crypto-industry anniversaries like Bitcoin Pizza Day, and regularly celebrate together at themed 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 at home policies
• Professional development via Mentoring and Buddy programs
• One-month fully paid sabbatical for every five years of continuous employment
  

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!