Staff Backend Engineer

Trading 212; España; Hybrid; PHP 4,307,692 - 6,153,846; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive benefits package

Remote or hybrid working options

Job summary

Trading 212 is looking for a skilled software development leader to oversee the technical development of a business domain. The ideal candidate will lead cross-functional agile teams, ensure high-quality software delivery, and develop solutions with a focus on performance and resilience. Candidates should have experience in microservice architecture and mentoring engineers. This role offers remote or hybrid working options and an attractive benefits package tailored to your location.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading the development and release of client-facing products.
• Coaching software engineers towards high-quality software delivery.
• Advanced knowledge of multiple programming languages.
• Deep understanding of RDBMS and messaging brokers.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of an entire business domain and user engagement.
• Manage cross-functional teams with short release cycles.
• Develop solutions with a holistic understanding of business problems.
• Focus on performance, scale, and resilience in coding.
• Identify areas for product improvement proactively.

Skills

Leadership in software development

Agile methodologies

Mentoring software engineers

Microservice architecture

Java

Go

Node.js

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

AWS

Job description

Our mission is to enable everyone to build wealth. We reinvent how trading and investing work by creating exceptional products people love.

Fostering a culture of excellence and high velocity is the key to our success.

Today, we serve over 6 million clients, with more than €38 billion in assets under management, a testament to the scale and trust we’ve built in just a few years.

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, k8s, Kibana.

We offer remote or hybrid working, depending on role, with flexibility balanced against team performance and collaboration needs.

We also provide an attractive benefits package, which may vary depending on your location. Full details will be shared during the initial screening, and we encourage you to come prepared with any questions.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the technical development of an entire business domain. Engage in forming requirements, design the architecture, and lead the entire software development life cycle.
• Lead a compact, autonomous, cross‑functional team with short release cycles – we rely on agile, independent teams of sharp and driven people with just the right amount of processes to steer off anarchy and not sacrifice velocity. Find the most valuable strengths of your teammates and provide them with mentorship in order to develop them further.
• Develop solutions by taking a holistic approach to problem‑solving – we expect you to understand the business problems, our service architecture and the underlying technologies and infrastructure and take everything into consideration.
• Develop for performance, scale and resilience – your code will run in an uncompromising environment. Downtime, latency and data loss are intolerable.
• Take initiative to identify areas of product improvement.

What You Need To Have

• Experience in leading the development and subsequent release of a complex/high‑demand client‑facing product.
• Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software engineers towards delivering high‑quality software together with them.
• Experience with developing services in a microservice architecture.
• Advanced knowledge of at least two programming languages.
• Deep understanding of RDBMS, messaging brokers and in‑memory data storages.

All applicants will be contacted, regardless of whether they are selected!

Are you ready to accelerate your career with us? We’d love to hear from you!

We process applicant data confidentially and in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We may use AI‑powered tools to help review applications, but all hiring decisions are made by our human recruitment team. Where required by law, we rely on your consent to use these tools.

You may withdraw this consent or exercise your data protection rights at any time by contacting us.