Staff Backend Engineer: Scale-Driven Systems & Reliability

Trading212; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Trading 212, a leading Europe-based mobile broker, is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to shape technical direction across teams and tackle high-consequence backend problems. The role emphasizes technical judgement, hands-on execution, and mentorship to raise engineering standards.

You will drive architectural decisions, improve reliability and performance, and work closely with product leaders to invest in long-term technical initiatives.

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.

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

Distributed backend

Relational databases

System design

Technical leadership

Observability

Performance optimization

Communication

Job description

Trading 212, a leading Europe-based mobile broker, is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to shape technical direction across teams and tackle high-consequence backend problems. The role emphasizes technical judgement, hands-on execution, and mentorship to raise engineering standards.

You will drive architectural decisions, improve reliability and performance, and work closely with product leaders to invest in long-term technical initiatives.