Senior Software Engineer

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.