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

at  Sygnum

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.

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