Iqana is a Barcelona-based quantitative trading firm building systematic, risk-managed exposure to digital assets. We are registered with the CNMV and were the first firm in Spain authorized under MiCA to provide discretionary crypto portfolio management — which means our systems run real institutional capital under real regulatory scrutiny.

We serve family offices, hedge funds and asset managers through non-custodial separately managed accounts (SMAs). Our proprietary strategies and risk framework sit on infrastructure we build ourselves: data ingestion, strategy research, execution, monitoring and reporting.

Under ten people run the entire firm, and we intend to keep the bar high rather than the headcount. We're looking for a Software Engineer to help build and scale the backbone of our trading and SMA execution platform.

Your primary axis is data and execution infrastructure: market data pipelines, venue integrations, and the execution and monitoring systems that keep client accounts trading correctly. You'll work directly with our CTO alongside quant researchers, ML engineers and software engineers.
Are you passionate about AI, Digital Assets, finance, prediction markets, and building systems that transform how people invest? Do you want to work across cutting-edge infrastructure, the latest data sources, and high-impact execution systems? Build and extend market data pipelines — exchange APIs, on-chain sources, historical and streaming.
Data infrastructure — Architect and optimize market data ingestion and ETL pipelines across multiple crypto exchange APIs and on-chain sources.




Execution and monitoring — Build and maintain the systems that place, track and reconcile trades across client accounts, plus the dashboards and alerting around them.
Backend APIs — Design scalable REST and WebSocket services connecting research, trading and client-facing systems.
Cloud-native systems — Deploy and operate on AWS with an eye to performance, cost and fault tolerance.
3+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in a startup or another fast-moving environment.
~ Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and cloud-native architecture.
~ Strong Python .
~ Experience building robust ETL or streaming data pipelines .
~ Experience with financial data, trading systems or quant research platforms.
Docker/Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and DevSecOps practice.
Familiarity with DeFi protocols, blockchain analytics or on-chain data.
What’s in it for you?
You'd be one of a handful of engineers building this platform, not one of a hundred maintaining it. Very few engineers get that at this stage of a company.
We're small and growing quickly, which means scope arrives far sooner than it would elsewhere. You design, build and ship. As one of our first engineers, you'll start by owning critical systems and infrastructure design. Software Engineer, Tech Lead for Trading Infrastructure and, as the team grows, toward Head of Engineering, building and mentoring the engineers who will scale Iqana's technology. How fast you move along it is largely up to you.

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📌 Vacancy: Software Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Iqana
📍 Barcelona