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Bitpanda is a European fintech platform founded in 2014 that simplifies wealth creation by enabling users to invest in cryptocurrencies, crypto indices, stocks, precious metals, and commodities. Serving over 7 million customers across Europe, the company operates as a fast-moving, innovative team headquartered in Vienna.
As a Software Engineer in Trade Services, you will own the core execution engine of Bitpanda's trading platform. Your mission is to build and scale the high-throughput, financially critical backbone that powers every trade on the platform.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and developing scalable, resilient, message-driven services using Java to handle offers, trade requests, and money movement
- Writing clean, future-proof code with 80%+ unit test coverage and conducting thorough end-to-end and integration testing before deployment into an event-driven microservices architecture
- Optimizing execution flows for core trading modules including fee calculation, order execution, ledger writing, and wallet synchronization to ensure reliability, maintainability, performance, and scalability
- Researching and adopting latest trends and technologies in backend development to keep core trading and ledger applications cutting-edge
Required qualifications:
- Strong software development experience using modern frameworks such as Spring Boot, with Java as your primary programming language
- Understanding of relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL and MongoDB experience preferred)
- Experience creating and maintaining publicly available REST APIs with strong performance optimization and scalability knowledge
- Deep hands-on experience with message-oriented middleware in event-driven microservices (Apache Kafka or ZeroMQ preferred)
- Familiarity with CI/CD practices and public cloud platforms (AWS and Kubernetes ideal)
The role offers hybrid flexibility with 25 additional days per year to work remotely from any location, competitive compensation aligned with impact, stock options, mental health support through OpenUP, and additional paid time off after 6 months.
