About Company
Bitpanda is on a mission to reinvent the world of finance and bring investing closer to everyone, everywhere. Today’s financial ecosystem is complex, exclusive and expensive, and we’re here to change this as the #1 investment platform in Europe and beyond. Our platform is rooted in the belief that investing should be safe, easy and accessible to all. With Bitpanda, everyone has the freedom and flexibility to invest in what they believe in — commission-free stocks, cryptocurrencies or even precious metals — starting from as little as $1.
Job Description
Summary
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.
What you’ll do
- Drive core technical decisions that shape our architecture, engineering practices, and long-term team vision
- 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
- Lead 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
Who you are
- 4+ years of hands on Python development in product-driven environments, building real-world, scalable systems that solve big problems
- A deep understanding of RESTful APIs, websockets, and network communication, with the ability to design fast, reliable, and clean APIs
- Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, always keeping performance and scalability top of mind
- Strong leadership skills to drive technical initiatives, influence the team’s direction, and guide key architectural decisions
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures, and message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS — you know how to keep data flowing seamlessly
- Bonus points if you’ve worked with AWS, have an interest in crypto, blockchain, or stock markets, and/or love the world of DevOps infrastructure
Skills
- Cryptocurrency
- Leadership
- Python
- Software Architecture
- Software Engineering
