Software Engineer - Energy Trading Team

Join Wincent's newly formed Energy Trading team in Prague, building systems for European power markets. You'll work on a small, entrepreneurial engineering team where every line of code drives real market impact-creating data pipelines, market connectors, and trading automation systems across exchanges like EEX, EPEX, and Nord Pool.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain data integration pipelines that gather data from European power exchanges (EEX, EPEX, Nord Pool) and grid operators
• Create market connectors, trading workflows, and scheduling tools to automate trading across day-ahead, intraday, and imbalance markets
• Turn trading models and strategies into stable, production-grade systems with clean architecture and robust data handling
• Design systems for reliability and fault tolerance, focusing on safety and correctness over ultra-low latency
• Ensure systems meet REMIT standards and prepare for MiFID compliance
• Help define engineering best practices, observability, and deployment standards for trading and data systems

What you bring

• 5+ years of senior engineering experience, with a track record of owning and shipping production systems end-to-end
• Strong technical foundation in data modeling, pipelines, and backend systems; ability to spot failure points and make pragmatic trade-offs for scale and reliability
• A builder mindset that thrives in greenfield environments, moves fast without sacrificing quality, and avoids unnecessary process
• Clear communication skills; you express ideas simply, challenge assumptions respectfully, and adapt when a better approach emerges

Nice to have

• Experience with energy or commodity trading, market connectivity, or scheduling systems
• Familiarity with EEX, EPEX, Nord Pool, or TSO data

What we offer

• Competitive base salary of 80,000-150,000 EUR per year, tailored to your expertise and seniority, with flexibility to exceed in exceptional cases
• Biannual performance bonus tied to individual excellence and fund performance; in exceptional cases this can exceed 50% of yearly total compensation
• Equity in the company as part of your compensation package
• Opportunity to invest in Wincent's flagship multi-strategy fund, which has delivered up to 50% annualized net returns since 2017
• Relocation assistance to Prague
• Flexible working time and unlimited paid vacation

About Wincent

Wincent is a cryptocurrency trading firm building next-generation trading infrastructure that executes orders seamlessly across 10+ exchanges. The team includes experienced engineers from Amazon and Google, with academic backgrounds from Berkeley, Caltech, ETH, and MIT, all focused on high-performance, reliable systems for the crypto markets.