Senior Data Platform Engineer, Trade Republic
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1-5 days a week in office
Investment platform
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Investment platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
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 a background in Software/System Engineering and built production grade data-intensive systems
- You're proficient in system design, can reason about scaling strategies together trade-off such as availability vs consistency, latency vs throughput
- You love solving challenging problems. We value your ability to tackle complex engineering issues over specific tools, language, or framework knowledge
- Your experience spans a variety of tools and data processing paradigms, including transactional data, event streams, and batch processing
- You enjoy hands-on work with infrastructure. Our services are deployed across distributed systems in the cloud, and we manage our infrastructure using code
- You have exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
- You're a self-starter who thrives under a high level of autonomy
- You’re eager to teach, learn and grow together with your team, you promote knowledge sharing
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineer, you'll elevate our standards for delivering high quality products and outcomes. You will help in shaping technical roadmaps, scoping projects, overcoming challenges, and advocating for best practices within the team
- Design data-intensive systems collaboratively with your team
- Develop services that empower your team and others to seamlessly handle large-scale data ingestion, processing, storage
- Build resilient systems at scale. We process millions of events daily to inform our decision-making
- Take ownership of the services and products, covering the entire lifecycle from ideation to research, implementation, and operation
- Collaborate with colleagues across functions, supporting and educating them in data engineering. Discuss. Disagree. Integrate your ideas to the product, take ownership and build for the future
- Empower your colleagues by providing continuous constructive feedback and mentorship
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
$275.4m
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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