Software Engineering Intern

Summary

Join us in shaping the future of finance at SwissBorg, a leading investment experience provider. We're looking for a Software Engineering Intern with a focus on Scala to join our team.

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

Responsibilities

• Scale the performance and the capabilities of the SwissBorg Ledger 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
• Create a scalable blockchain indexing system
• 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

Benefits

• 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