Senior Backend Engineer, Trade Republic
1-5 days a week in office
Investment platform
Open for applications
Investment platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
1-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make private wealth accumulation and retirement planning easier for millions of Europeans with easy and secure access to the capital markets.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 3 years experience in software engineering (preferably in JVM ecosystem)
- You have developed and shipped scalable features within a service oriented architecture
- You have a strong urge to deliver reliable and long-term maintainable software using an iterative development approach and continuous delivery
- You feel comfortable in an agile environment and have a self-driven personality with a “hands-on” approach, able to identify and solve problems independently and efficiently
- You feel comfortable working in an environment with strict requirements for user data protection
- You enjoy building platform services as a basis and accelerator of product development (nice to have prior experience working in platform/foundations-focused team)
- You are passionate and understand financial instruments (nice to have), and have prior experience in external partners integration and maintenance
What the job involves
- Be part of cross-functional product teams delivering mission-critical features and services
- 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)
- Ship products via a CI/CD pipeline based on Github Pull Requests, Buildkite, and Container Orchestration
- Proactively take responsibility for long-term code quality and architecture
- Collaborate closely with peers from other teams and non-technical stakeholders
- Share your knowledge about tools and technology that remove manual processes, reduce tedious tasks and increase efficiency and reliability
Our take
Trading has quickly become one of the biggest activities powering the global economy, with global equity trading amounting to over $100 trillion each year and growing, so it's a lucrative market that many want in on. Behind the rapid rise of its global growth are mobile brokerages, equally on the rise for their ease of use and increased access to information, they are powering the way for the future of the trading industry.
Trade Republic is a German-based mobile brokerage platform allowing users to buy and sell stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), as well as other financial instruments all from their smartphones. As the platform operates exclusively through a mobile app, Trade Republic is making it easier than ever for a wider audience to get into trading and because of this, along with its low fees, the app has quickly become a popular choice for those looking to invest.
Since the company launched to the market in 2019, it has raised a significant amount of funding, amounting to over $1bn, and welcomes over one million users to its app, indicating the company's growth and reputation. Going forward, the company is focused on further expanding its offerings to more European countries and recently announced a step in this direction, having launched in Ireland.
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back within 2 weeks
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$279.5m
SERIES C
May 2021
$750m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Christian Hecker
(Co-Founder)Experienced in Investment Banking having previously worked for Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch.
Marco Cancellieri
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as an iOS Engineer at Hubert Burda Media.
Thomas Pischke
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with a Masters's degree in Physics, with a special focus on quantum computing.
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