Trader

Position:
Trader, Trading Desk

Company:
Bitpanda

Location:
Austria, Vienna

Employment type:
Not specified

Work Arrangement:
Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote)

Short Summary:
As a Trader on our Trading Desk, you will manage and optimize trading flows across various asset classes, ensuring efficient execution and robust real-time controls.

Responsibilities:
- Take shared ownership of trading performance across all asset classes, ensuring strong execution quality and resilient trading systems.
- Monitor markets, order books, order flow, and exposures in real time, proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
- Optimize pricing, hedging, routing, execution, and internalization using market insight, data, and performance analytics.
- Dynamically adjust trading parameters within defined risk limits and analyze spreads, slippage, hedge performance, and execution outcomes.
- Collaborate with quantitative researchers, engineers, product teams, operations, and external partners to improve algorithms, tooling, controls, and trading-system performance.

Requirement:
- Strong ownership and builder mindset, with a relentless focus on performance and continuous improvement.
- At least two years of relevant experience in trading, market making, liquidity provision, electronic markets, or a comparable role.
- Strong understanding of market microstructure, order-book dynamics, pricing, hedging, execution quality, and risk management.
- Analytical and quantitative mindset, capable of making fast, well-reasoned, data-driven decisions under pressure.
- Passionate about financial markets, digital assets, and trading technology, thriving in a high-performance environment with flexibility to work rotating shifts of 8 hours between 07:30 and 23:00.

Benefits:
- Flexibility to work where you thrive with an additional 25 days per year to work from a city or country of your choice.
- Competitive total compensation package aligned with Bitpanda’s pay-for-impact policy, including participation in our stock option plan.
- Access to confidential coaching, counselling, and mental health resources through OpenUP.
- 3 additional days of paid time off to recharge after 6 months of employment.
- Unlimited access to Udemy’s library of online courses for continuous learning and growth.
- Discounts, rewards, and perks from partners worldwide across lifestyle, wellness, tech, and travel.
- 8 weeks of gender-neutral new parent leave.
- Free onsite dining in Vienna, Bucharest, Barcelona, and Berlin.
- Recognition and rewards for tenure at Bitpanda.
- Access to exclusive Bitpanda-branded merchandise.
- Opportunities to connect and celebrate with your team through company events.