Software Engineering Intern

At SwissBorg, our mission is to build a spectrum of investment experiences that help people redefine wealth. Our app has over 790,000+ verified users, offering the best price and liquidity across 16 fiat currencies to buy 90+ cryptocurrencies. Users can earn yield, diversify their portfolios with our themed crypto bundles, and gain access to exclusive alpha investment opportunities. Our community is rapidly expanding, with more than $1.4 billion in assets held in the app and over 51,000 premium users.

Join us in shaping the future of finance, pushing the boundaries of what's possible, and transforming the way people manage their wealth. Whether you’re in Austria or Taiwan, and whether your portfolio is worth one dollar or a million, SwissBorg provides the best tools to learn about digital currencies and manage your wealth effectively.

Join the team to help revolutionise the world together!

We are looking for a Software Engineering Intern with a focus on Scala to join our team.

Throughout your internship, you will:

- Scale the performance and the capabilities of the SwissBorg Legder by leveraging a new generation and high-performant database such as TigerBeetle

- Create a monadic workflow system library for managing complex workflows within the SwissBorg system

- Monadic workflow system in scala (workflows4s I presented on tech talk some time ago)

- Create a scalable blockchain indexing system

- Reliable indexing mechanism for [insert next chain used by OMS> (integration in blockchain facade we started building recently)

- ChatOps library for Scala - a generic system that allows to easily move information in and out of Slack and build operational processes

- An actual production-support triage mechanism, using Slack apps

- Bring the SwissBorg identity on-chain

- ENS/SNS (custom resolver to have name)

- NFTs linked to a user (Borger rank, premium, etc)

- Personal address

- Build a functional event-sourcing library for scaling our distributed system architecture in Scala

- persistence with cats-effect and fs2, compatible with our current journal

- Build a distributed membership system on top of Kubernetes in Scala

- membership service (replacing pekko-cluster) leveraging k8s api, SBR and gRPC request routing

- Explore Passkeys usage outside of primary WebAuthn use-case:

- Use our phone secret key as a Webauthn authenticator, meaning to be ourself a Passkey service provider (like e.g. 1Password). That’s very exploratory work

- Use Passkeys on-chain, e.g. validating a WebAuthn signature in a smart contract. And more generally extending WebAuthn to on-chain authentication needs

Requirements:

• Must be a minimum of 6 months internship
• The internship will be based in Lausanne, Switzerland
• Completing final year studies at university
• Start date from January 2025
• Familiar with Scala
• Must have an interest in the Crypto ecosystem

Why you should apply:

- Freedom to build the company of your dreams

- Learn with (super cool) experts in finance, engineering, AI, psychology and business

- BORG bonus based on our meritocratic system

- Flexible working hours

- 25 working days of vacation + local holidays

- We'll provide you with a MacBook and a cutting edge tech stack to help you do your best work

- Annual company and team retreats - We'd love to see you at the next one!

- Continuous learning and development opportunities

If our job description speaks to you, but you don’t feel like you meet 100% of the requirements, apply anyway! You may have skills we didn’t even know we needed.

At SwissBorg, we embrace diversity. We strongly believe that getting the best outcome requires different perspectives and backgrounds. We’re committed to openness, curiosity and creating an inclusive culture because we know that diverse teams build better products and generate better ideas. We strongly encourage applications from everyone!

Familiarising yourself with our product is crucial for anyone looking to join our team. Please make sure to test the app, explore our blog for the latest developments, and follow our Careers Page, LinkedIn, and X for regular company updates!