Software Engineer, Asset Pricing

We simplify wealth creation. Founded in 2014 in Vienna, Austria by Eric Demuth, Paul Klanschek and Christian Trummer, we're here to help people trust themselves enough to build their financial freedom — for now and the future. Our user-friendly, trade-everything platform empowers both first-time investors and seasoned experts to invest in the cryptocurrencies, crypto indices, stocks*, precious metals and commodities* they want — with any sized budget, 24/7. Our global team works across different cultures and time zones, bringing our products to more than 6 million customers, making us one of Europe's safest and most secure platforms that powers modern investing.

Headquartered in Austria but operating across Europe, our products are built by fast-moving, talented, "roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen" kind of people. It's these diverse perspectives and innovative minds operating as ONE TEAM that keep Bitpanda at the cutting edge of our industry. So if you're someone who thinks big, moves fast and wants to make an impact right from day one, then get ready to join our industry-changing team. Let's go

Your mission

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

• Hybrid-working model with 25-Work From Anywhere days*
• Competitive total compensation package including participation in our stock option plan
• Market-leading benefits programs shaped  by our Time & Flexibility policies*
• Company-wide and team events — both in-person and virtually
• Bitpanda swag to keep you living the brand

And, above all, the opportunity to learn and grow as part of Bitpanda's incredible journey towards being Europe's future #1 investment platform.

Bitpanda is committed to fostering a fair and equal environment based on trust and mutual respect. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is paramount to our success and we are committed to building a team that represents a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

* These benefits may be adjusted at Bitpanda's discretion and do not apply to our internships and exceptions to our Hybrid Working policy apply to teams with shift schedules or for folks whose roles require them to be in-office (think: Workplaces team or IT).