Senior Backend Engineer

Trading 212 Ltd.; España; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Trading 212 Ltd. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own end-to-end backend solutions across a microservices landscape. You will design scalable services, ensure performance and data integrity, and collaborate with product and engineering to translate complex requirements into durable systems.

You will work with Java 21 (Spring), Go, and Node.js (TypeScript) in a high-velocity environment, focusing on reliable production systems and clear technical decision-making.

Qualifications

• Proven ownership of backend services built and operated within a microservices architecture.
• Strong grasp of HTTP, WebSockets, and AMQP protocols and when to use each.
• Production fluency in at least one modern backend framework.
• Deep knowledge of relational databases, including indexing, transactions, isolation levels, locking, and high-performance design.
• Track record designing systems for high availability, scalability and resilience.
• Clear, structured problem-solving and ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, sound judgment, and confidence learning unfamiliar technologies.

Responsibilities

• Own backend solutions end to end: understand the business problem, shape the requirements, design the solution, build it, test it, deploy it and run it in production.
• Design and evolve services for performance, scale, resilience and data integrity.
• Make clear technical decisions with a full understanding of constraints, alternatives and trade-offs.
• Keep code and systems maintainable as products and requirements evolve.
• Diagnose difficult production problems, address underlying causes and prevent recurrence.
• Work closely with product and engineering colleagues to turn complex requirements into simple, durable solutions.
• Review work critically, share knowledge and raise the engineering standard across the team.

Skills

Backend design

Microservices

HTTP/WebSockets/AMQP

Relational databases

High availability

Problem solving

Collaborating with product

Tools

Java 21 (Spring)

Go

Node.js (TypeScript)

PostgreSQL

MariaDB

Redis

Kafka

ClickHouse

Elasticsearch

Docker

Kubernetes

Grafana

AWS

Kibana

Job description

Our mission is to enable everyone to build wealth.

We reinvent how trading and investing work by creating exceptional products people love.

That takes high standards, high velocity and engineers who own what they ship.

Today, we serve over 6 million clients, with more than €38 billion in assets under management - a testament to the scale and trust we have built in just a few years. At that scale, performance, reliability and data integrity are part of the product.

Our platform is powered by a modern, high-performance engineering stack designed for scale and reliability: Java 21 (Spring), Go, Node.js (TypeScript), PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Redis, Kafka, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Docker, Grafana, AWS, Kubernetes and Kibana.

About The Role

Senior Backend Engineers work across our backend organisation. Your team match will reflect your strengths, interests and where you can contribute most.

Across every team, the model is the same: small, autonomous groups, short release cycles and ownership from problem definition through production.

What you’ll do

• Own backend solutions end to end: understand the business problem, shape the requirements, design the solution, build it, test it, deploy it and run it in production.
• Design and evolve services for performance, scale, resilience and data integrity.
• Make clear technical decisions with a full understanding of the constraints, alternatives and trade-offs.
• Keep code and systems maintainable as products and requirements evolve.
• Diagnose difficult production problems, address their underlying causes and prevent recurrence.
• Work closely with product and engineering colleagues to turn complex requirements into simple, durable solutions.
• Review work critically, share knowledge and raise the engineering standard across the team.

What you need to have

• Proven ownership of backend services built and operated within a microservices architecture.
• A strong grasp of communication protocols such as HTTP, WebSockets and AMQP, including when to apply each.
• Production fluency in at least one modern backend framework.
• Deep knowledge of relational databases, including indexing, transactions, isolation levels, locking mechanisms and high-performance design.
• A track record of designing systems for high availability, scalability and resilience.
• Clear, structured problem-solving and the ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, sound judgement and confidence learning unfamiliar technologies.

Depth in one backend ecosystem and sound tool choice matter more than familiarity with every technology listed.

Bring your ambition to Europe’s fastest-growing mobile broker!