Software Engineer, Python (Asset Pricing & Hedging)

You will build high-performance, scalable backend systems in Python that power core trading infrastructure. You will design, test, and maintain clean, maintainable code across a microservice ecosystem, evolve and scale event-driven architectures, integrate new assets and exchanges, and implement pricing, hedging, and risk-management tools for crypto, stocks, metals, and other assets.

Responsibilities

• Build high-performance scalable backend systems using Python
• Design and maintain clean, testable code across a microservice ecosystem
• Develop and evolve event-driven architectures and scale systems
• Integrate new assets and exchanges and implement pricing and hedging tools
• Support critical trading and risk management functions through reliable code

Requirements

• 2+ years hands-on Python development experience in product-driven environments
• Experience designing and using RESTful APIs and WebSockets, with FastAPI
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures and message brokers such as Kafka or ZeroMQ
• Interest in crypto, blockchain, or stock markets (bonus)
• Experience with AWS (bonus)

Benefits

• Comprehensive relocation package
• Hybrid working model with ability to work 25 days per year from a city or country of choice
• Participation in stock option plan
• Confidential coaching, counselling, and mental health resources via OpenUP
• Three additional days off in 2026
• Unlimited access to Udemy online courses
• Discounts and perks from global partners
• Eight weeks gender-neutral new parent leave
• Free onsite dining in Vienna, Bucharest, Barcelona, and Berlin
• Recognition and tenure rewards
• Company events and celebrations
• Bitpanda-branded merchandise