Jobs at Swissquote

Supports the Legal Department across disputes, litigation, contract drafting and negotiation, legal research, regulatory monitoring, product and technology reviews, data protection, and internal governance documentation. Works with experienced legal professionals on banking, financial markets, fintech, and corporate law matters during a 6–10 month traineeship.

Leads the Existing Clients team within Business Risk Management, overseeing periodic reviews, ongoing client controls, escalations, regulatory compliance, audits, reporting, and process improvements for corporate and institutional clients. Manages staff performance, recruitment, coaching, stakeholder coordination, and complex risk decisions while partnering with Sales, Compliance, Legal, and senior management across Gland and Zurich.

Leads the Quality Control and Remediations team overseeing final checks for client onboarding and periodic reviews. Manages people and operations, analyzes QC trends, coordinates remediation exercises, supports audits, improves processes, and partners with Compliance, Legal, Sales, and technical teams. Makes independent decisions on complex cases, drives first-time-right outcomes, and coaches team members while ensuring adherence to Swiss regulatory and due diligence standards.

Leads corporate and institutional client onboarding across Gland and Zurich, overseeing regulatory compliance, KYC/AML due diligence, data accuracy, service levels, team operations, and people management. Drives process transformation, continuous improvement, and productivity initiatives; resolves complex cases; partners with Sales, Compliance, and Legal; supports recruitment, performance management, coaching, and client or prospect meetings.

Conduct AML/CTF reviews of key clients, perform enhanced due diligence and declassifications, draft formal compliance assessments, and advise front-office teams and management. The role may also involve second-level reviews, policy and procedure updates, and internal process optimization. This temporary position requires knowledge of Swiss financial regulations, strong analytical and writing skills, and fluency in English and French.

Lead the strategy, governance, operating model, distribution framework, and commercial development of private-markets and alternative-fund offerings. Manage end-to-end fund execution and servicing, ensure compliance with MiFID II and related requirements, assess product eligibility, and support governance across the broader fund universe. Build relationships with asset managers, general partners, and institutional investment partners while coordinating commercial and control functions.

Develop and maintain reliable frontend banking applications using TypeScript or JavaScript and React. Design maintainable architectures, collaborate with financial experts, improve application quality, support users, and contribute to testing, builds, deployments, and technical decisions. Participate in Agile delivery, knowledge sharing, pair programming, and team development while optimizing client-facing banking tools, web services, and frontend core components.

Develop, test, maintain, and improve banking applications using Python, PHP, and PostgreSQL. Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders, translate requirements into technical solutions, optimize application performance, troubleshoot issues, maintain code quality, participate in reviews, and support existing banking systems.

Leads Swissquote’s Controlling & Risk department and a multidisciplinary team of approximately 20 employees. Oversees credit, market, liquidity, operational and regulatory risk management, internal controls, risk governance, reconciliations, stress testing, reporting and regulatory relations. Develops risk frameworks, policies, monitoring standards and maturity initiatives while supporting business transformation, automation and new business assessments. Presents risk matters to executive leadership, the Risk Committee, Board and regulators.

Leads the Compliance Monitoring team, overseeing AML reviews of cryptocurrency, cash, securities, and financial institution transfers; sanctions alerts; suspicious-client investigations; policy optimization; and regulatory projects. Manages hiring, performance, development, coaching, and team culture while advising senior management and frontline teams on compliance matters.

Leads Swissquote’s independent Internal Audit function, reporting to the Board and Audit & Risk Committee. Builds the in-house function from an outsourced model, establishing its charter, methodology, audit universe, risk-based plans, team, tools, QAIP, and co-sourcing model. Provides assurance across financial, regulatory, operational, technology, cybersecurity, and emerging risks; manages FINMA relationships; challenges control weaknesses; develops data analytics and automation; and leads the Internal Audit team.

Design, develop, test, and maintain reliable Java backend services supporting institutional trading applications. Own technical topics end to end, contribute to architecture and integrations, troubleshoot production issues, manage databases and transactional behavior, and improve scalability, resilience, observability, and delivery practices. Collaborate across teams, review code, support production systems, and mentor less experienced engineers.

Operate and modernize production applications on Kubernetes, improving reliability, observability, performance, deployment safety, and operational readiness. Responsibilities include service mesh operations, GitOps and progressive delivery, SLO and KPI definition, failure and load testing, automation, AI-enabled troubleshooting, JVM production support, third-level support, and participation in on-call rotations.

Operate and improve production eFX and cryptocurrency platforms across on-premise and private cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include managing Kubernetes clusters, responding to incidents, automating operational processes, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, improving observability, troubleshooting faults, conducting resilience and disaster recovery testing, and participating in on-call support. The role partners with infrastructure and development teams to improve scalability, availability, performance, and production reliability.

Own and evolve Swissquote’s digital design system across its website and digital media. Create and document Figma components, styles, variables, templates, and guidelines; ensure interface consistency, accessibility, responsiveness, and accurate developer implementation. Support adoption across design teams, coordinate cross-functional requests, collaborate with developers and content teams, and integrate AI and emerging design tools into design workflows.

The Institutional Relationship Manager will develop and manage relationships with institutional clients, assist in business growth, and ensure compliance with internal guidelines.

The Client Relationship Manager will assist clients with documentation, build relationships, educate on services, resolve inquiries, and collaborate with teams to ensure customer satisfaction.

Maintains the general ledger, prepares journal entries, reconciliations, financial statements, regulatory filings, and periodic closings. Investigates discrepancies, reviews accounting adjustments, supports audits and consolidated reporting, and provides guidance on complex banking accounting matters. The role requires compliance with IFRS, Swiss banking accounting standards, and applicable regulations, while contributing to accounting projects and process improvements.

Manage and secure enterprise endpoints across macOS, Windows, iOS, iPadOS, and Android using Microsoft Intune and Defender for Endpoint. Responsibilities include device enrollment, compliance and configuration policies, endpoint protection, application packaging and deployment, lifecycle management, troubleshooting, reporting, documentation, incident support, and continuous improvement. The role also collaborates with security, identity, service desk, and engineering teams while improving automation, platform health, and operational processes.

Manage and grow relationships with institutional clients (banks, asset managers, funds). Lead onboarding (KYC, account opening), support product and operational queries (FX, securities lending, treasury), identify cross-sell opportunities, coordinate with Compliance/Finance/Operations, produce client reporting, and drive retention and process improvements.