Swissquote operates a regulated, multi-jurisdictional trading and banking platform serving over 1 million clients across 60+ stock exchanges and 3 million tradeable products. The tech stack reveals a hybrid architecture: .NET and Java backends with Kafka streaming, orchestrated via Kubernetes and Azure cloud infrastructure, complemented by Oracle and PostgreSQL data stores. Active hiring across engineering, finance, legal, and security—with leadership gaps in compliance and risk roles—aligns with their core pain-point surface: regulatory complexity (AML, insider trading detection, transaction monitoring) and critical application stability, now being addressed through cyber threat intelligence and SOAR security automation.
Tech Stack 100 technologies
What Swissquote Is Building
◆Challenges
- Physical settlement of forex trading
- Optimization of internal processes
- Improving internal systems and tools
- Aml compliance
- Compliance with regulatory requirements
- Stability of critical banking applications
- Streamlining account opening process
- Detecting insider trading
- Process improvement for efficiency
- High risk transaction monitoring
▲Active Projects
- Yuh native mobile app development
- Physical settlement system for forex trading
- Automation initiatives
- Key regulatory projects
- Cyber threat intelligence platform development
- Concept development for trading features
- Quantitative research roadmap implementation
- Data exploration and reporting for traders
- Security automation (soar, scripting recurring tasks)
- Penetration testing and vulnerability reporting
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Java Lead, Chief Executive Officer, Head Trader
