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About Signicat

Technology at Signicat

Building EU's digital trust backbone

At Signicat, we build the infrastructure that makes digital trust work across Europe. Identity is messy in the real world. Different countries, different providers, different rules, different failure modes. Our job is to turn that complexity into something reliable, secure, and easy to integrate.

If you like distributed systems, high availability, security by design, and real-world integrations that actually matter, you’ll feel at home here.

Our tech vision

We don't spend our days polishing toy problems. We are building and running systems that handle high throughput, strict reliability expectations, and a lot of moving parts.

Our tech vision is a unified Digital Identity Platform that abstracts the complexity away, so our customers can build with confidence. Developer-centric APIs, resilient services, and a platform that scales with our customers.

What we're working on

  • Millions of transactions flowing through a platform that needs to be fast and dependable

  • Integrations with hundreds of identity providers and data sources across Europe

  • APIs and platform capabilities that help customers build secure onboarding and authentication

  • Reliability and operational excellence, from observability to incident response

  • Security and compliance constraints that are real, not theoretical

How we engineer

  • Each team chooses its own path. You own your services, define your roadmap in alignment with product goals, and decide on the best technical approach. No top-down mandates on how to build.

  • We're not dogmatic about frameworks. Teams use methodologies that work for them, typically variants of Scrum or Kanban, with a strong focus on continuous delivery and fast feedback loops.

  • Our teams embrace a DevOps mindset. You're responsible for your code from the first line to production monitoring. We use tools like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes to make this a smooth and efficient process.

  • We foster a culture of learning through internal tech talks, cross-team "Guilds" (e.g., DevOps, QA, Security, TechDoc and Architecture), and a shared passion for solving hard problems.

  • We have a growth mindset, so everything we build (products, systems, or experiences) is designed for scale. As a key for our engineering strategy, we adopted the engineering platform approach to enable technical, organisational, and product scalability. 

  • We provide our engineers with top-of-the-line gear of their choice. You get the freedom and the professional-grade tools you need to build, test, and deploy effectively.

Our tech ecosystem

We use a modern, cloud-native tech stack chosen to solve specific problems of scale, security, and reliability. While we're always evolving, here’s a look at the core of our ecosystem:

  • For scalable, resilient, and manageable infrastructure as code: 

    • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
    • Kubernetes (GKE)
    • Terraform

  • For building robust, high-performance, and maintainable microservices:

    • Java
    • Spring & Spring Boot
    • PHP
    • C#

  • For creating modern, responsive, and user-friendly web interfaces:

    • Vue.js
    • Angular

  • To offer flexible, standard-based, and secure integration points for our diverse services:

    • REST
    • gRPC

  • To automate our delivery pipeline and ensure we have deep insight into our systems' performance and health:

    • GitLab and OpenTelemetry-based solutions
    • Zipkin
    • Jaeger
    • Tempo
    • Kiali
    • Grafana
    • And more

Career growth

We invest in our employees' growth as technologists. Whether they want to deepen their craft, lead, or switch domains, there’s room to grow here.

  • Progress as a technical leader (e.g., Staff/Principal Engineer) or as a people manager. We value deep technical expertise just as much as we value leadership.

  • We formalise individual development by giving employees 2 hours every week to focus on learning. Dive into a Udemy course, prototype a new idea, or contribute to an open-source project.

  • Want to switch from backend to platform engineering? Or move from a product team to the security team? We support and encourage internal mobility to help you broaden your skills.

  • Our quarterly development talks and internal mentorship programs are designed to give you the guidance and support you need to set ambitious goals and achieve them.

Innovation in action

Innovation at Signicat isn't a buzzword; it's part of our engineering DNA. Our annual, company-wide hackathon is the most visible example. It's a 48-hour deep dive into creative problem-solving where a bit of "play and curiosity" leads to remarkable results.

Take Marcus, our VP of Technology, who channelled his childhood love for his Commodore 64 into a career of building impactful tech. That same spirit of playful exploration thrives at our hackathon. One recent project, MintyAI, started as a hackathon experiment to see if an AI assistant could help users navigate complex compliance workflows. It was so successful that it's now influencing how we approach user assistance in our production environment. 

This is a place where your creative side-projects and "what if" ideas can have a real impact on our products.

Meet the people behind the platform

Technology is built by people. Visit Meet the Signicats for real stories from engineers, product, and leaders on the work, challenges, and journeys behind our platform.

These are the people you'll be collaborating with, learning from, and building the future of digital trust alongside.