Founding Fullstack Engineer, SwissBorg
Execution Systems
Crypto wealth management
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Crypto wealth management
201-500 employees
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To democratise crypto wealth management by making it fun, fair and community-centric.
Role
Who you are
- We’re hiring a founding, full-stack engineer who thrives in startup environments and can own critical paths end-to-end: backend services, execution reliability, CI/CD, cloud infra, and the extension UI
- 5+ years building and operating production systems end-to-end in startup environments
- Self-starter with founder mindset: clarify, design, ship, measure, iterate
- Strong in Python and Node.js/TypeScript; comfortable context-switching across the stack
- Hands-on across backend, CI/CD, cloud infra, and frontend
- Pragmatic testing: unit/integration, load testing for execution paths, telemetry-first approach
- Solid engineering hygiene: reviews, documentation, security, and calm debugging under pressure
Desirable
- Blockchain engineering (wallets, signing, EVM/HL or similar) and/or financial markets/exchange systems
- Chrome extension performance & permission model expertise
- Low-latency systems, back-pressure, numeric stability (PnL/ATR/RR)
- Zero-to-one product launches and ownership of on-call
What the job involves
- You’ll ship fast, instrument everything, and lead the trading execution layer (low-latency, high-reliability) from internal beta to broader rollout
- Your focus will be hardening execution, reliability, and scale. You’ll work directly with the founder; our technical advisor (founding engineer) supports architecture continuity during handover
- Own the execution path: order orchestration, risk rails (SL/TP, slippage buffers, retries/backoff), error codes, incident playbooks
- Ship & scale the setup engine: integrate/optimize strategy adapters; serve ranked Top-3 setups with clear SLOs
- Full-stack delivery: TypeScript/Node REST APIs, Python workers & REST APIs, React/Chrome extension, NextJs frontend, Postgres
- Production reliability: observability (logs/metrics/traces), alerting, rate-limits, feature flags, kill-switch
- CI/CD & infra: Containerization (Docker), automated tests/deploys, IaC, secure secrets, staging/prod parity, cost-aware cloud
- Security & privacy: non-custodial flows, wallet interactions, principle of least privilege
- Roadmap collaboration: signal-provider marketplace, CEX integrations
- Representative Technologies:
- Backend: Node.js (TypeScript, Node 20), Python (async workers), WebSockets/REST, Postgres, Redis/queues
- Frontend: React Chrome Extension APIs, content scripts, overlay UI. NextJs
- Cloud & DevOps: AWS (VPC, ECS (EC2), RDS), Docker, Terraform/CDK, GitHub Actions, Sentry/PostHog/Grafana
- Trading/Web3: Hyperliquid APIs (HyperCore), wallet flows, signing; additional exchange APIs later
Our take
Founded in 2017, SwissBorg set off with the hope to make crypto investing accessible to all through its crypto trading platform.
“Fun” isn’t usually a word you would use when you talk about investment, but SwissBorg looks to emphasise how its work and development are community driven. The “fun” proof is in the pudding; it has a YouTube channel with 10,000+ subscribers, and two successful apps, highlighting its aim to bring finance and banking into the modern world. Hitting a $1 billion valuation in 2021, it definitely seems like it's doing something right. Swissborg has attempted to set itself apart not only with its detachment from the old banking ethos but also through its use of a DAO platform, which really affirms its desire to be community led.
After much turmoil in the cryptocurrency market, SwissBorg has been highlighted as one of the safest platforms by a number of sources. This is clearly something it's prioritising just as much as immediate user needs, as it looks to ensure it doesn't become another victim of the volatility of the crypto industry. Series A funding of $23 million should go some way to quash any worries about the company's longevity.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2023
$23m
SERIES A
Total funding: $23m
Company benefits
- TRAINING ALLOWANCE
- EMPLOYEE PREMIUM ACCOUNT
- CHSB BONUS
- ANNUAL TEAM RETREAT
- MIN. 25 DAYS OF HOLIDAY
- FLEXIBLE WORKING OPTIONS
Company HQ
Le Flon, Lausanne, VD
Leadership
Cyrus Fazel
(CEO)Previously worked in various investment management and hedge fund roles, including as VP of Alternative Investments for Aramis Capital and Head of Investment Management for SEQUOIA.
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