Job Specifications
Your team
Swissblock is a proprietary investment fund specializing in systematic trading algorithms and advanced global macro and crypto analytics. Our in-house technology powers a suite of innovative financial solutions, delivering deep market insights and actionable intelligence for professional investors and institutions. By combining data science, algorithmic precision, and intuitive design, we develop cutting-edge tools that enable users to analyze, interpret, and act on market dynamics with confidence.
Your role
As a Senior Software Engineer in the Product Engineering team you will build and evolve a data and content dissemination platform (Web, App, APIs, messaging) and corresponding data pipelines, ensuring that our analytics and trading systems remain at the forefront of financial innovation. You will provide the content of our proprietary investment framework directly to our clients. In order to succeed, you are required to deep dive and analyze various use cases with different teams like investment, finance, data or strategy engineers. Apart from supporting our constantly evolving products by driving the development of our components, you will actively help in business requirement analysis and specification to improve not only the tools but also processes and information flow throughout the company. It is a perfect opportunity to take ownership and drive our product development strategy.
Key responsibilities
Gather requirements in direct contact with business and technical stakeholders
Work with product management to analyze and improve our business processes
Conduct workload and complexity assessments
Design, plan and implement new efficient software solutions in Python and Go
Maintain and enhance our Airflow data pipelines
Improve observability and scalability to support our constantly growing client base
Continuously adapt to changing requirements in a business driven environment
Build and extend knowledge of financial instruments
Minimum qualifications
B.Sc. in Computer Science or similar field involving coding (e.g. physics or applied mathematics)
Algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design
Hands-on senior level experience in Python programming
Unix based systems, containerized environments and Kubernetes
Working experience with databases: relational, NoSQL and time series
Websocket, REST API and message brokers (e.g. Kafka, NATS, Pub/Sub)
Proficient written and verbal communication in English
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive attitude to own and solve issues
Team player, strong sense for quality, reliability and innate curiosity to learn new things
Preferred qualifications
Background in traditional finance or digital assets, ideally in trading domain
Hands-on experience with Python libraries and frameworks (NumPy, Pandas, Airflow, FastAPI, Flask, SQLAlchemy)
Highly proficient in asynchronous, event driven distributed systems
Working knowledge of cloud-native architectures, GCP preferred
Experience in Go and working with real-time data streams
What we offer
Unique opportunity to work on new, cutting-edge technology in financial trading
Self-funded and already profitable international company in a future-proof market
Great culture and team spirit with flat hierarchy and quick decision-making
Work-life balance with a remote-first culture (Europe or onsite in Zug, Switzerland)
Competitive compensation scheme with an annual bonus
25 days of annual leave, pension, insurance and regular company events
Do you want to help us to bring our already profitable system to the next level and build the next generation of our revolutionary products? Then please apply below.
About the Company
We at Swissblock, are a Private Wealth Manager which is on a mission—to lead the way in crypto and cross-asset investing. With a keen understanding that timing is paramount, we employ a systematic approach that combines robust algorithmic trading with exhaustive cross-asset market analysis. Our mission is to decode the complexities of the market, offering actionable insights for informed decision-making. In the midst of market chaos, we stand firm. Our comprehensive framework, refined over years of optimization, enables us t...
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