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Pine Software Technology Ltd is a software company specializing in trading technology solutions for regulated brokers and trading firms. We build SaaS products that support electronic trading, brokerage operations, risk management, and financial data analysis. 

The back office is responsible for reconciling balances following traders' transactions and for reporting to clients and regulators. 
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We are looking for a Senior Python Engineer who is collaborative, has a product mindset, and is reliable. 

Responsibilities

• Build, ship, and maintain backend features in Python 3.x + Django (incl. DRF) with solid tests (pytest).
• Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas/queries; own data migrations and performance tuning. Integrate and maintain external services (payments, email, auth, storage), with secure, idempotent APIs.
• Implement background jobs with Celery/Redis, monitoring, and alerting.
• Contribute to code reviews, CI/CD, and engineering standards (linting, typing, docs).
• Diagnose production issues end-to-end (logs, metrics, traces) and drive root-cause fixes.

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Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Python Engineer and 3+years of experience with Django.
• Python 3.10+; Django 3.2/4.x; DRF; PostgreSQL (indexes, transactions, locking).
• Celery + Redis (tasks, retries, schedules).
• Testing culture (pytest, factory_boy, fixtures, coverage) and type hints (mypy/pyright).
• REST API design (versioning, pagination, error contracts, idempotency).
• Docker, basic Linux, and CI/CD (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI).
• Observability: structured logging, metrics, basic tracing; using Sentry/Prometheus/Grafana.
• Security basics: OWASP Top 10, secrets management, least privilege.

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Nice to have 

• Caching & messaging: Redis patterns, RabbitMQ/Kafka basics.
• Async APIs (FastAPI), GraphQL, websockets.
• Infra: AWS (ECS/EKS/Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch), Terraform.
• Frontend fluency for Django templates or simple React/TypeScript components.
• Performance profiling (cProfile, PySpy), feature flags, i18n.
• Security hardening (CSP, rate limiting, audit trails).

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What We Offer

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• Work-Life Balance — 25 days of paid vacation + 30 days of paid sick leave.
• Care from Day One — medical insurance from your first day, including dental care, massage, and professional psychological support.
• Knowledge Library — office books and access to the Kuka online library.
• Investment in Your Energy — partial reimbursement for sports and fitness activities.
• Growth & Learning — coverage for English or Ukrainian language courses and a dedicated professional development budget.
• Island Relaxation — up to 14 days per year at the company villa in Cyprus.

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Join the Pine Software team, where your talents and aspirations will be recognized! We offer a dynamic work environment, opportunities for professional growth, and support at every step of your career path. Start your journey to success with us—apply today and take the first step towards your bright future!

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Pine Software is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences. Please note, that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for considering Pine as your next career move!

Smarter is a management company responsible for defining the overall strategy of investment activities and ensuring optimal management and development strategies for each business unit within the group. The main areas of activity and focus of our company include the international fintech community SFORS (https://sfors.com), the brokerage company Statok (https://statok.global), and the product company Pine Software (https://pinesoftware.com.cy)

The Head of Security is responsible for the comprehensive protection of the Group’s and the Owner’s assets, information, and interests by establishing an integrated security system—encompassing financial-economic, information, internal, and physical security—that minimizes the risks of loss, fraud, and external threats while supporting the stability and value growth of the asset portfolio.

Responsibilities

1. Corporate & Enterprise Security

• Developing, updating and implementing the company’s global security strategy in line with business objectives.
• Establishing an effective security governance framework and developing corporate security policies.
• Assessing, structuring and managing corporate risks (Enterprise Risk Management).
• Protecting the company’s physical, information, financial and reputational assets.
• Transforming and developing the security culture within the company.
• Advising the Executive Team and the Board on strategic security and risk-related decisions.

2. Physical Security & Crisis Management

• Organising comprehensive physical security for offices, sites, facilities and personnel.
• Monitoring and modernising access control systems, CCTV, security and emergency response systems.
• Developing and regularly testing crisis response scenarios (including those specific to martial law, relocation and blackouts).
• Management of travel security and executive protection processes (where required).

3. Personnel Security & Background Checks

• Organisation and automation of background verification processes for candidates, employees and third-party vendors.
• Assessment of potential reputational, compliance and fraud risks.
• Development and implementation of employee screening and insider risk management procedures (to prevent internal leaks and sabotage).
• Effective collaboration with the HR and Legal departments when resolving sensitive cases.

4. Fraud Prevention & Internal Investigations

• Designing and auditing systems to prevent fraud, corruption and internal misconduct.
•  Organising and conducting independent internal investigations.
•  Identifying conflicts of interest, industrial espionage, financial fraud and leaks of trade secrets.
•  Developing preventive controls and tools for monitoring operational risks.
•  Leading the Incident Response process (responding to security incidents).

5. Information Protection & Insider Risk Management

•  Ensuring the security aspects of processes involving the handling of confidential information and trade secrets.
• Developing and implementing measures to prevent insider threats.
• Monitoring compliance with internal requirements for handling sensitive information.
•  Participating in the investigation of information leaks, breaches of NDAs and other incidents related to human error.
•  Assessing security risks associated with counterparties, partners and third-party contractors.

6. Risk Management & Business Continuity

•  Developing and maintaining procedures for responding to security incidents.
•  Preparing and conducting training sessions, drills and crisis simulations.
• Coordinating actions during incidents relating to physical, personnel or corporate security.
• Participating in post-incident analysis and the development of corrective measures.
• Preparing recommendations to enhance the company’s preparedness for security threats.

7. Compliance & Governance

• Monitoring compliance with internal security policies and external compliance requirements.
• Fostering constructive collaboration with the Legal and Audit functions, government and law enforcement agencies, as well as external stakeholders.
• Participating in the development and oversight of policies relating to data protection, confidentiality (NDAs) and acceptable use.
• Preparing regular security reports and dashboards for executive leadership."

Requirements

• Experience: At least 5 years in roles such as Head of Security, Director of Corporate Security or Enterprise Risk Manager within established organisations (mature mid-market or enterprise-level).
• Expertise: A deep understanding of how physical, operational, personnel and financial security function within a modern business.
• Management skills: Experience of building security processes, regulations and policies ‘from scratch’ or completely transforming them to suit the new scale of the business.
• Crisis management: Practical experience of incident handling and coordinating actions in stressful, uncertain situations.
• Business focus: Skills in engaging with executive stakeholders. The ability to defend budgets and decisions using the language of figures, risk analysis and business opportunities, rather than the language of ‘restrictions’.
• Technical literacy: An understanding of the basic principles of information security and modern digital risks. The ability to interact effectively with IT and other technical functions within the company.
• Personal qualities: An impeccable reputation, high ethical standards, emotional intelligence, well-developed strategic thinking and absolute discretion.

Nice to have

•  Experience of working in international companies or matrix organisations.
•  Experience of managing security in high-risk environments or geographically dispersed teams/branches.
•  Professional certifications (e.g. ASIS CPP, CISM, risk management or audit certifications).
•  Knowledge of international practices and standards in the field of corporate security, risk management and internal controls (ISO 31000, ISO 22301, ISO 27001 would be an advantage).
•  Experience of professional and effective interaction with law enforcement or military organisations.

Company offers

• Care from Day One — medical insurance from your first day, including dental care, massage, and professional psychological support.
• Work-Life Balance — 21 days of paid vacation + 30 days of paid sick leave.
• Knowledge Library — office books and access to the Kuka online library. 
• Investment in Your Energy — partial reimbursement for sports and fitness activities.
• Modern Workspaces with full power-backup infrastructure in Larnaca, Cyprus.
• Island Relaxation — up to 14 days per year at the company villa in Cyprus. 

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Join the Smarter team, where your talents and aspirations will be recognized! We offer a dynamic work environment, opportunities for professional growth, and support at every step of your career path. Start your journey to success with us—apply today and take the first step towards your bright future!
 

Smarter is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for considering Smarter as your next career move!!

Pine Software Technology Ltd is a software company specializing in trading technology solutions for regulated brokers and trading firms. The company provides Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products designed to support electronic trading, brokerage operations, risk management, and financial data analysis.

As a Senior AQA/SDET Engineer you will be responsible for building and maintaining automated testing solutions for APIs, integrations, and data pipelines, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of large-scale data flows, and contributing to the evolution of automation frameworks and QA practices.

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and maintain automated tests for backend services and data-processing systems in the financial market data domain.
- Build API, integration, and data validation test coverage using C#/.NET automation.
- Validate correctness, completeness, and consistency of historical market data across APIs, databases, files, scheduled jobs, and downstream consumers.
- Automate regression checks for data pipelines, including data ingestion, transformation, storage, caching, and delivery.
- Create reliable test coverage for edge cases related to market dates, historical prices, corporate actions, missing data, delayed data, and incorrect calculations.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and improve test reporting, stability, and execution reliability.
- Analyze failed tests and production-like issues using logs, monitoring tools, API responses, database queries, and configuration.
- Collaborate with developers to improve testability, observability, and reliability of backend/data services.
- Maintain test documentation, automation coverage notes, and clear defect reports.
 

Requirements:

- 5-8+ years of AQA/SDET experience testing complex backend, API, data-heavy, or distributed systems.
- 3+ years of hands-on test automation experience with C#/.NET.
- Strong experience designing automation strategy, not only writing individual tests.
- Proven experience building or improving automated test frameworks, CI/CD test stages, reporting, and quality gates.
- Strong API and backend test automation experience.
- Solid SQL and PostgreSQL experience, including advanced queries, data validation, and investigation of data inconsistencies.
- Experience testing data pipelines, scheduled/background jobs, file processing, caching logic, and service-to-service integrations.
- Ability to independently investigate production-like issues using logs, metrics, monitoring dashboards, API responses, database state, and service configuration.
- Strong test design skills: regression strategy, risk-based coverage, boundary cases, negative scenarios, data-driven tests, and clear defect reporting.
- Experience mentoring other QA/AQA/SDET engineers or improving team-level QA practices.
- Understanding of backend architecture, environment-based configuration, service health checks, and deployment validation.
- Experience working in Scrum or another Agile delivery process.
- Languages: Ukrainian native/fluent and English Intermediate or higher.

Nice to Have:

- Experience with financial systems, trading platforms, market data, historical data, or time-series data.
- Experience with ReportPortal, FluentAssertions, NUnit, or desktop UI automation.
- Ability to read or debug C++, Go, or Python code.
- Experience with time-series databases, Kubernetes/Nomad, Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Elasticsearch, or Kibana.

What We Offer:

-Cutting-Edge Stack: Real-world C++23 implementation, AI, and microsecond-level latency challenges.

-Remote First: Full flexibility to work from where you are most productive.

-Engineering over Bureaucracy: Flat structure, fast decision-making, and a team of peers who speak your language.

Company offers:
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Care from Day One – medical insurance immediately upon starting work, including dental care, massage and professional psychological support because your well-being matters
Work-Life Balance – 25 days of paid vacation + 30 days of sick leave, so you can recover without unnecessary stress
Investment in your energy – partial reimbursement for any sports activities that empowers you.
Growth – partial coverage for English or Ukrainian language courses + a fixed budget for professional development. Choose what suits you best!
Knowledge Library – books in the office and access to the Kuka online library to learn, grow, and find inspiration.
Island Relaxation 14 days a year – enjoy a getaway at the corporate villa in Cyprus.
Office of the Future – work at Unit City, where everything is designed for productivity, even during power outages or Modern Office in Larnaca – a stylish space for inspiration: open areas, cozy lounges, and functional meeting rooms – all for your comfort.
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Join the Pine Software team, where your talents and aspirations will be recognized! We offer a dynamic work environment, opportunities for professional growth, and support at every step of your career path. Start your journey to success with us—apply today and take the first step towards your bright future!

Pine Software is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences. Please note, that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for considering Pine as your next career move!

Pine Software Technology Ltd is a software company specializing in trading technology solutions for regulated brokers and trading firms. The company provides Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products designed to support electronic trading, brokerage operations, risk management, and financial data analysis.
 

As a Senior C++ Software Engineer you will work on ultra-low-latency ingestion pipelines, processing up to 1M messages per second with microsecond-to-millisecond latency.
 

Responsibilities
 

• Design and develop core market data components using modern C++23.
• Optimize data ingestion pipelines for extreme throughput and low latency.
• Make key architectural decisions for system scalability and reliability.
• Conduct rigorous code reviews focusing on performance, memory safety, and correctness.
• First 90 Days Focus: Deep dive into ZeroMQ and transition quickly into driving medium-to-major feature development.
   

Job requirements
 

• 5+ years of professional experience in C++.
• Expertise in Modern C++ (17/20/23): Deep knowledge of concepts, coroutines, ranges, and multi-threading.
• Low-Latency & Concurrency: Strong background in lock-free programming, memory synchronization primitives, and high-throughput systems (100K–1M+ msg/sec).
• Solid understanding of microservice architecture and Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA).
   

Nice-to-Have Skills
 

• Hands-on experience with ZeroMQ or high-performance messaging.
• Multi-language flexibility (Go/Python) and microservice infrastructure experience (PostgreSQL, K8s\Kubernetes).
• Experience with low-latency networking, binary serialization (Protobuf/FlatBuffers), or financial market data.
   

What We Offer

• Work with a cutting-edge modern C++ stack (C++23) on highly complex engineering problems.
• Flexible remote work environment.
• Collaborative team of senior-level professionals with minimal bureaucracy.
• Hardware-Level Challenges: Dive into low-latency engineering, lock-free programming, and microsecond optimizations. It’s a dream playground for a real C++ enthusiast.
• 100% Remote & Results-Oriented: We value code quality and system stability over time-trackers. Manage your own day.
• Senior-Only Environment: Work alongside top-tier professionals. Minimal bureaucracy means more time for actual engineering and less time in alignment meetings.

Company offers

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• Care from Day One – medical insurance immediately upon starting work, including dental care, massage and professional psychological support because your well-being matters
• Work-Life Balance – 25 days of paid vacation + 30 days of sick leave, so you can recover without unnecessary stress
• Investment in your energy – partial reimbursement for any sports  activities that empowers you.
• Growth – partial coverage for English or Ukrainian language courses + a fixed budget for professional development. Choose what suits you best!
• Knowledge Library – books in the office and access to the Kuka online library to learn, grow, and find inspiration.
• Island Relaxation 14 days a year – enjoy a getaway at the corporate villa in Cyprus.
• Office of the Future – work at Unit City, where everything is designed for productivity, even during power outages or Modern Office in Larnaca – a stylish space for inspiration: open areas, cozy lounges, and functional meeting rooms – all for your comfort.

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Join the Pine Software team, where your talents and aspirations will be recognized! We offer a dynamic work environment, opportunities for professional growth, and support at every step of your career path. Start your journey to success with us—apply today and take the first step towards your bright future!

Pine Software is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences. Please note, that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for considering Pine as your next career move!