Software Engineer, Python (Asset Pricing & Hedging)
Description
At Bitpanda, we're building a powerful system that handles prices and risk management for various types of investments like stocks, crypto, ETFs, metals, and fiat currencies. You’ll help add new assets to our platform, work with new exchanges, and create tools like price charts and systems for crypto products with leverage. This is a key role where you'll help us build the technology that makes trading and investing in different assets fast, reliable, and easy to use for everyone.
Responsibilities
- Build high-performance, scalable backend systems using Python that power Bitpanda’s core trading infrastructure
- Design and maintain clean, testable, and maintainable code across a robust microservice ecosystem
- Work on the evolution of our event-driven architecture, helping scale systems for future growth
- Tackle complex, cross-domain challenges in pricing, hedging, and asset management across crypto, stocks, metals, and more
- Work in a high-impact environment where your code directly supports critical business functions across the company
Requirements
- 4+ years hands on Python development experience in product-driven environments, building real-world, scalable systems (required)
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and websockets, with the ability to design fast, reliable, and clean APIs using FastAPI (required)
- Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases (required)
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures, and message brokers like Kafka or ZeroMQ (required)
- Experience with AWS (preferred)
- Interest in crypto, blockchain, or stock markets (preferred)
Benefits
- Comprehensive relocation package to support candidates who are moving to join our team.
- Flexibility to work where you thrive – Enjoy the freedom of our Hybrid working model, combining onsite collaboration and remote work, with an additional 25 days per year to work from a city or country of your choice.
- Competitive total compensation package aligned with Bitpanda’s pay-for-impact policy, including participation in our stock option plan.
- Access confidential coaching, counselling, and mental health resources whenever you need them through OpenUP.
- Take extra time off to rest, reset, and recharge, with 3 additional days off in 2026 to prioritise your wellbeing.
- Unlimited access to Udemy’s library of online courses at your own pace.
- Discounts, rewards, and perks from partners worldwide across lifestyle, wellness, tech, and travel.
- Additional 8 weeks of gender-neutral new parent leave to welcome and bond with your new addition to the family.
- Free onsite dining, with freshly prepared lunches and snacks to keep you fueled and focused all day long (for Pandas in Vienna, Bucharest, Barcelona, and Berlin).
- Recognition and rewards for your Tenure at Bitpanda.
- Exclusive Bitpanda-branded merchandise and gear to represent.
- Unforgettable company events, from our Winter Party in Vienna to gatherings worldwide, fostering fun, connection, and celebration.
- Location-specific benefits designed to make life at Bitpanda even more rewarding wherever you are.
