Software Engineer, Python (Asset Pricing & Hedging)
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.
- 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
- 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)
- Worked with AWS (preferred)
- Have an interest in crypto, blockchain, or stock markets (preferred)
- A 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.
- Receive a 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.
- Grow your skills and stay ahead in your career with unlimited access to Udemy’s library of online courses at your own pace.
- Enjoy discounts, rewards, and perks from partners worldwide across lifestyle, wellness, tech, and travel.
- Take advantage of our additional 8 weeks of gender-neutral new parent leave to welcome and bond with your new addition to the family.
- Pandas in Vienna, Bucharest, Barcelona, and Berlin can enjoy free onsite dining, with freshly prepared lunches and snacks to keep you fueled and focused all day long.
- Celebrate milestones and achievements with recognition and rewards for your Tenure at Bitpanda.
- Access exclusive Bitpanda-branded merchandise and gear to represent.
- Join 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.
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. Our story started in 2014 with our founders, Eric Demuth, Paul Klanschek, and Christian Trummer. Since then, we’ve grown to a powerful and diverse team of over 550 people who represent more than 50 nationalities. Headquartered in Vienna, we’re proud to be Austria’s first unicorn and one of the fastest-growing fintechs in Europe. Our innovative technology serves over 5 million users and operates across multiple hub locations. Our products are built by fast-moving, talented, “roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen” kind of people. 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.
