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 define, design, build, operate, and scale domain services. You will collaborate on technology selection, translate requirements into robust solutions, align technical roadmaps with target architecture, and contribute engineering best practices. You will balance design, implementation, and mentoring while supporting complex multi-domain initiatives.
Requirements
- Proven experience using Python as a primary language
- Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including SOLID, ACID, and testing
- Hands-on experience with AWS
- Experience with Django, FastAPI, and Flask
- Extensive experience integrating with or creating 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 from design through global scaling
- 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 product, mobile, web, data, and business colleagues
- Contribute domain expertise and engineering best practices to the Community of Practice
Benefits
- 25 days of paid annual leave
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or learning and development activities
- Extended company-covered maternity and paternity leave
- Personal learning and development budget of 500 EUR per year
- Additional health and dental insurance
- Mental wellbeing platform
- Fully covered Multisports card
- Food vouchers
- Office snacks, light food, and drinks
- Work-from-home equipment allowance
- Flexible work from home
- Sabbatical leave
- Share options