Senior Engineer Python
Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm that invests from seed to growth stage (Series B to pre-IPO), backing founders with sector-specific expertise and a large network of operational support. It leads the majority of its initial investments and continues to support portfolio companies through multiple follow-on rounds as they scale.
About Speedinvest
Speedinvest is a pan-European venture capital investor with specialist investment teams organized around core sectors including AI & Infra, Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech & DeFi, Health & Bio, and Marketplaces & Consumer, alongside a dedicated Growth team writing checks from Series B to pre-IPO. The firm emphasizes leading with conviction and long-term capital from day one, leading 85% of its initial investments, participating in 100+ follow-on rounds each year, and backing 70+ Series A companies over the past four years. Speedinvest works with startup founders across Europe and beyond, providing not just capital but network access and growth support, and counts companies like Bitpanda, Moove, cylib, Tide, Gigs, Upvest, and GoStudent among its portfolio.
Skills
About the Role
You will own, design, build, run, and globally scale services within your domain. You will collaborate with product owners, mobile and web engineers, data scientists, and backend engineers to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions. You will help select technology partners, align technical roadmaps with the target architecture, mentor colleagues, and contribute best practices through Communities of Practice.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Python Developer using Python as a primary language
- Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including SOLID, ACID, and testing
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Django, FastAPI, and Flask
- Extensive experience creating or integrating REST APIs
- Experience working in Scrum and Agile development practices
- Experience with event-driven microservices or message queues
- Understanding of Salesforce integrations
Responsibilities
- Define, own, and maintain domain services
- Design, build, run, and globally scale services
- Work with the product team to select technology partners
- Collaborate with backend engineers on design, refinement, implementation, and mentoring
- Align the team vision and roadmap with the target architecture
- Translate requirements into well-engineered solutions with cross-functional stakeholders
- Contribute best practices to the Community of Practice
Benefits
- Flexible benefits app
- 25 days paid annual leave
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or learning and development activities
- Parental leave days
- Family-friendly leave
- Mental wellbeing platform
- Work-from-home equipment allowance
- Sabbatical leave
- Share options
- Team events