Staff Backend Architect - Scale & Reliability

Trading212; London; On-site; NOK 1,141,000 - 1,902,000; Full time

Job summary

Trading212 is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to shape technical direction across teams while staying close to the systems and code. You will tackle problems whose consequences span services and delivery cycles, delivering credible execution and enabling other engineers to make better decisions.

This is not a people-management role; your leverage comes from technical judgement, ownership and the ability to influence architecture and reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• Evidence of technical impact across multiple teams or a substantial product domain.
• Deep ownership of distributed backend systems operating at meaningful scale.
• Strong judgement in service boundaries, asynchronous communication, data ownership, consistency and failure modes.
• Deep knowledge of relational databases, transactions, concurrency and high-performance design.
• A track record of improving reliability, scalability, observability or developer effectiveness through durable mechanisms.
• The ability to influence technical direction through evidence, clarity and trusted execution rather than title.
• Clear communication that helps teams act on complex technical decisions.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and the judgement to choose when to standardise, simplify or leave a system alone.

Responsibilities

• Own high-consequence backend problems that span services, teams or product domains.
• Establish clear system boundaries and architectural direction without creating unnecessary central control.
• Lead technical decisions by making constraints, alternatives, risks and trade-offs explicit.
• Improve performance, resilience, data integrity, operability and failure handling across production systems.
• Resolve recurring structural problems rather than treating symptoms team by team.
• Remain hands‑on where implementation, diagnosis or prototyping is the fastest way to create clarity.
• Mentor senior engineers, raise review quality and make strong engineering judgement easier to reproduce across teams.
• Partner with engineering and product leaders on sequencing, risk and long‑term technical investment.

Skills

Technical impact

Distributed backend ownership

System design judgment

Relational databases

Reliability/observability

Effective communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Redis

Elasticsearch

Job description

Trading212 is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to shape technical direction across teams while staying close to the systems and code. You will tackle problems whose consequences span services and delivery cycles, delivering credible execution and enabling other engineers to make better decisions.

This is not a people-management role; your leverage comes from technical judgement, ownership and the ability to influence architecture and reliability at scale.