Swan

Swan

Banque, FinTech / InsurTech, IT / Digital

Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Bordeaux

Company values

  • Be human: We spontaneously go the extra mile to help people — whether they're a colleague, a partner, an investor, or a client. Be straightforward, transparent, and sincerely care. It's all about integrity and doing the right thing.

  • Ambition: Our dream is to become Europe’s biggest and favorite payment infrastructure. We’re in this for the long game — Swan has no interest in being acquired. We want to transform the entire payments market, and be the engine for Europe’s next tech champions! On an individual level, it’s in our DNA to constantly seek to do better, to do more.

  • Collaboration: We believe in the power of collective intelligence. So we cultivate reflective listening and make sure everyone is empowered to speak up. We love to challenge others' ideas and be challenged in return. May the best ideas win.

  • "Move fast, don't break things.": Swan must be secure, robust, and built to last. If we must choose between security and going fast, we choose security. We are in banking, after all.

  • Make everything simple: If something's convoluted or confusing, we work extra hard to break it down. Making complex things simple is what we do.

Swan doesn’t want to be the company that pro-claims values but then doesn’t live up to them.

We asked the Swan team a range of magazine interview questions as a pulse check at our last offsite. Here's the gist of what they said.

Describe Swan in 5 words: Ambition, Collaboration, Kind, Joie de vivre, Product culture

What global issues does Swan care about? Like everyone, Swan cares about a bunch of issues. But we’re especially sensitive to the environment and the planet. 🌍 We signed the Climate Act in 2021, with 100+ fast-growing companies, to make concrete commitments to climate action. We encourage each other to recycle, always. We avoid airplanes. Love trains. And we especially love cycling.

What’s the atmosphere like? Serious and studious, but not too much. We love bad jokes at our weekly kick-off meeting and creating emoticons of each other on Slack. At offsites: a good party, a bad karaoke 🎤, and a bottle of bubbly. 🍾

Ideal teammate? Sociable. Skilled. Empathetic. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door.

Brightest memory? There was a range of answers for this one including “champagne night at the castle,” 🏰 and “hike in the mountains.”

How does Swan stand out as a workplace? Every single answer mentioned the kindness of our team. Other popular answers: transparency, autonomy (we’re trusted to do our jobs well), down-to-earth.

How does Swan dance? Not so well, by jumping around! (but always to Nicolas Saison’s amazing

embedded finance music) 🎧🎶

What languages does Swan speak? Our main working language is English, but our team also speaks: Albanian, Arabic, TypeScript, French, German, Go, GraphQL, Kotlin, Japanese, Portuguese, Python, Russian, Scala, Spanish, Thai, TypeScript, Vietnamese...

What are your rituals? Monday kick-off, Friday all-hands. We have a bunch of beloved online games 👾 we play during impromptu breaks. Twice a year we go somewhere gorgeous (a chateau, a mountain 🏔) to re-connect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax.