--- title: 'Senior Python Engineer (AI) at capital.com' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-python-engineer-ai-capital-com-warsaw-f712menew1mx' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Senior Python Engineer (AI) at capital.com - **Company:** capital.com - **Location:** Warsaw, Poland - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-06-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/capital/2dc304a4-b37d-4599-864e-63c5e0167eb3 ## Job description We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer - Python / AI Engineer to join the Internal Development Team. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain internal tools, APIs, AI-driven automation workflows, and system integrations that improve operational efficiency across Capital.com. The role is strongly focused on building practical AI solutions, including AI agents, agent workflows, automated decision-support flows, and integrations with internal and external systems. You will collaborate closely with Engineering, Security, Operations, Compliance, Finance, and other business teams to deliver secure, reliable high-quality software that supports internal workflows, data integration, and emerging AI-driven initiatives. Key Responsibilities: - Develop and maintain internal services, tools, APIs, automation scripts, and AI-enabled workflows. - Design and implement AI agents, multi-step agent flows, and automation pipelines to support internal business processes. - Build integrations with internal and third-party systems, including financial platforms, payment providers, reporting tools, Jira, Confluence, Okta, Slack, AWS, and other enterprise systems. - Develop AI-powered features such as intelligent data processing, document analysis, classification, anomaly detection, workflow automation, and decision-support tools. - Integrate LLMs and AI services into internal applications using APIs, orchestration frameworks, vector databases, and retrieval-augmented generation where appropriate. - Create and maintain automation flows connecting AI agents, APIs, databases, notifications, and approval workflows, local and remote MCP servers. - Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve issues related to financial integrations, API failures, data inconsistencies, automation errors. - Write clean, efficient, secure, and well-documented code following software engineering best practices. - Implement CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks. Optimize system performance and ensure reliability and security. Contribute to architectural decisions and participate in code reviews. - Optimize performance, reliability, observability, and security of internal tools and integrations. - Support architectural decisions, participate in code reviews, and contribute to engineering standards. - Continuously identify opportunities to improve manual processes through automation, AI, and better system integrations. Requirements: - 3–5+ years of professional experience as a Python Developer, AI Engineer - Strong proficiency in Python 3.x, including asynchronous programming, REST API development - Experience with frameworks such as FastAPI, FastMCP, Flask, or Django. - Practical experience building or integrating AI-powered solutions in production or near-production environments. - Experience working with LLM APIs and AI platforms, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, or similar. - Experience designing AI agent workflows, tool-calling flows, prompt-driven automation, or multi-step AI orchestration. - Understanding of AI engineering concepts such as prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector databases, structured outputs, evaluation, and guardrails. - Ability to integrate AI capabilities into existing services, internal tools, and automation workflows. - Strong experience with API integrations, including authentication, OAuth2, webhooks, error handling, retries, rate limits, and secure data exchange. - Solid understanding of SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL. - Experience troubleshooting API integrations, data synchronization issues, automation failures, and production defects. - Basic proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to support lightweight frontend interfaces or internal admin dashboards. - Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. - Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD or similar CI/CD pipelines. - Experience with financial data processing, reconciliation, reporting automation, or transaction monitoring. - Understanding of risk, compliance, and operational controls in financial environments. - Understanding of secure coding practices, secrets management, access control, and secure data handling. - Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills. - Excellent communication skills and ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Preferred: - Experience working with AWS services. - Experience with Kubernetes deployments and management. - Experience integrating with enterprise tools (Jira API, Okta API, Slack API). - Familiarity with infrastructure as code and DevOps practices. - Exposure to logging and monitoring stacks (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana). - Understanding of secure coding practices and compliance requirements in fintech or regulated environments. - General understanding of the math and algorithms behind AI and related technologies. What you will get in return: - Competitive Salary: We believe great work deserves great pay! Your skills and talents will be rewarded with a salary that makes you feel valued and motivated. - Work-Life Harmony: Join a company that genuinely cares about you - because your life outside of work matters just as much as your time on the clock. #LI-Hybrid - Annual Performance Bonus: Your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed! Celebrate your achievements with a well-deserved annual bonus tied to your performance. - Generous Time Off: Need a breather? Our annual leave policy lets you recharge and enjoy life outside of work without a worry. - Employee Referral Program: Love working here? Share the love! Bring your talented friends on board and get rewarded for growing our awesome team. - Comprehensive Health & Pension Benefits: From medical insurance to pension plans, we’ve got your back. Plus, location-specific benefits and perks! - Workation Wonderland: Live your digital nomad dreams with 30 extra days to work remotely from anywhere in the world (some restrictions apply). Adventure awaits! - Volunteer Days: Make a difference! Take two additional paid days each year to support causes you care about and give back to the community. Be a key player at the forefront of the digital assets movement, propelling your career to new heights! Join a dynamic and rapidly expanding company that values and rewards talent, initiative, and creativity. Work alongside one of the most brilliant teams in the industry. ## About capital.com ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Capital.com is a multi-award-winning, tech-driven online trading platform that empowers retail traders worldwide with CFDs, advanced tools, and educational resources. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, $25M funding from VP Capital in 2017) - **Headquarters**: Limassol, Cyprus (with offices in London, Dubai, Warsaw, Sofia, Melbourne) - **Founded**: 2016 - **Founders**: Viktor Prokopenya ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Services (Online Brokerage, CFD Trading, Fintech) - **Target customers**: B2C (retail traders, from beginners to experienced) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To help traders make better decisions by giving them the tools and resources they need to trade with confidence. ## Products & Services - **[Capital.com Platform]**: Web and mobile trading platform offering 5,500+ markets across multiple asset classes (forex, indices, shares, commodities, crypto). Features real-time data, advanced charting, and a responsive mobile app. (SaaS, mobile-first) - **[Investmate App]**: Educational app for new and amateur traders, covering finance basics, risk management, and trading skills. (Service / Education) - **[eQ (AI-Powered Trading Bias Detection)]**: A system that tracks trading behaviour, detects cognitive biases, and provides personalised educational materials and news. (AI tool) - **[SmartFeed]**: A feed that delivers personalised financial news and educational content based on user behaviour. (AI-powered content engine) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total client trading volume exceeded $1.2 trillion in 2023; over 880,000 traders; 1,000+ employees globally as of 2025. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: VP Capital (lead investor); regulated by FCA (UK), CySEC (Cyprus), ASIC (Australia), SCA (UAE) and in other jurisdictions. - **Growth Signals**: 34% year-over-year headcount growth (adding ~326 people); named "Fastest-Growing Company in the Middle East and Cyprus" for three consecutive years; expanded into UAE with a new regional head office; trading volumes grew 90% YoY in 2022; awarded "best in class" in five categories by ForexBrokers.com in 2024. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-first approach**: Proprietary behavioural analytics (eQ, SmartFeed) that help traders improve decision-making – a key differentiator from traditional brokers. - **Global regulatory footprint**: Licensed in five major jurisdictions, providing trust and access to clients in 180+ countries. - **Mobile-first from inception**: Launched as the first mobile-first broker in Europe, leading to a seamless cross-device experience. - **Strong brand recognition**: Multi-award-winning with high ratings on Glassdoor (4.5) and among clients. ## Strategic Focus - Continue expanding into new markets (e.g., UAE, Asia-Pacific). - Deepen AI and machine learning capabilities to enhance personalisation and trading insights. - Scale the educational ecosystem (Investmate, SmartFeed) to attract and retain retail traders. - Grow headcount across engineering, product, and operations teams while maintaining a strong culture. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values-driven (ownership, curiosity, momentum) with a collaborative, international environment. Described as blending "the ambition of a scale-up with the collaboration of a close-knit team." - **Work Model**: Hybrid working (where applicable); option to work abroad up to 30 days per year ("Workation Initiative"). - **Perks**: Private health insurance, performance-based bonuses, volunteering days, referral bonuses, social events, development and training support. - **Engineering & Innovation**: Opportunity to work on a next-generation trading platform using AI, data, and scalable infrastructure. Teams are located across multiple continents, offering cross-cultural collaboration. - **Reviews**: Glassdoor score 4.5; LinkedIn employer rating 4.3/5.0 (246 reviews) with high marks for Work-Life (4.4), Compensation (4.6), Culture (4.3), and Career (4.4). ## Sources 1. [careers.capital.com](https://careers.capital.com/) 2. [capital.com/en-gb/about-us/careers](https://capital.com/en-gb/about-us/careers) 3. [jobs.lever.co/capital](https://jobs.lever.co/capital) 4. [linkedin.com/company/capital.com](https://linkedin.com/company/capital.com) 5. 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