Software Engineer, Java (OpsHub)
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About the role
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 7 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 As an engineer within the Ops Hub at Bitpanda, you will own and drive technically critical, high-impact projects across our payments, compliance and risk infrastructure. You will help build and scale robust, resilient backend systems - from payment-processing services and PSP integrations, to real-time transaction screening, risk-detection pipelines, alerting and case-management tooling - ensuring that as we expand across Europe (and beyond), our infrastructure remains secure, performant, compliant and ready for growth. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders (Payments, Compliance, Fraud & Risk Ops, Finance, etc.), and architect, build and maintain services that safeguard our customers and the platform while enabling seamless growth and localisation.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, resilient, message-driven services using Java
- Write clean and future proof code with 80% unit test test coverage, end to end and integration testing before deploying into event driven microservices architecture
- Optimise payment modules/services to ensure reliability, maintainability, performance and scalability using tools like
- Drive innovation by researching and adopting the latest trends and technologies in backend development, ensuring our applications remain cutting-edge.
Requirements
- Knowledge and experience of software development using modern frameworks such as Spring Boot, with Java as your main programming language
- Understanding of relational and non-relational databases (bonus points for experience with Postgres and MongoDB)
- Experience creating and maintaining publicly available REST APIs with a keen understanding of performance optimisation and scalability
- Practical knowledge in using message-oriented middleware as we're working with event driven microservices (ideally Apache Kafka or ZeroMQ)
- Understanding of CI/CD: familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes is ideal but any public cloud experience is fine
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