Backend Engineer (London)

Trade Republic; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology company in London is seeking a Mid/Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to build and test services using modern tools from the JVM ecosystem. The ideal candidate has at least 5 years of software engineering experience and a strong commitment to delivering reliable software in a flexible work environment. This role offers the opportunity to work in a collaborative team and contribute to highly available cloud services.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, preferably in JVM ecosystem.
• Strong commitment to delivering reliable and maintainable software.
• Experience in building scalable features within a service-oriented architecture.

Responsibilities

• Build and test services and products using modern JVM tools.
• Design cloud services focusing on high availability and scalability.
• Implement automated software delivery using container-based CI/CD.

Skills

Software engineering

Service-oriented architecture

Kotlin

Spring

AWS

GitHub Actions

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Job description

(Mid / Senior / Staff) Backend Engineer London

Please note that the positions are based in London United Kingdom relocation and visa support is provided if required.

THE BEST WORK OF YOUR CAREER

Trade Republic is the largest savings platform in Europe we operate in 18 countries serving 10 million customers who trust us with over 150B in assets. But were striving for more.

We have a bold mission to empower everyone to build wealth with easy safe and free access to financial systems. You will have the opportunity to grow your career by collaborating with a team of outstanding talents and state of the art technology to build a lasting positive future for millions.

WHAT YOULL BE DOING

• Build and test services and products using modern tools from the JVM ecosystem such as Kotlin Spring and Vert.x Hibernate or jOOQ.
• Design cloud services focusing on high availability low latency and scalability (on top of AWS).
• Implement automated software delivery using GitHub Actions container-based CI / CD pipelines and Kubernetes orchestration.

WHAT WERE LOOKING FOR

• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering (preferably in JVM ecosystem).
• We are hiring from mid to staff level so whether you have a few years of experience and are ready for more ownership or you have been leading complex systems for many years we would love to hear from you.
• Experience with developed and shipped scalable features within a service oriented architecture.
• A strong commit to delivering reliable and maintainable software using an iterative development approach and continuous delivery.
• Experience with building platform services that act as a foundation and accelerator for product development (prior experience in platform / foundations-focused teams is a plus).
• The ability to work in a flexible hybrid setup with 2-3 days a week in the office.

WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY NOW

Our culture rewards ownership excellence and high energy. We care deeply about outcomes and hold each other accountable were here to win and fix one of the largest challenges Europeans face closing the pension gap and democratising wealth. If this gets you fired up reach out!

We believe its our teams varied identities and backgrounds that make us sharper and stronger. Were committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected and has equal opportunity to thrive in their careers. For any questions on DEI during the interview process reach out to your recruitment partner.

Key Skills

Business Intelligence,Bidding,Accounts Assistant Credit Control,Account Development,Content Development,Lab Testing