Staff Backend Engineer
Trading2123 months ago
Germany (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own high-consequence backend problems across services, teams, or product domains.
- Establish system boundaries and architectural direction.
- Lead technical decisions by evaluating constraints, alternatives, risks, and trade-offs.
- Improve performance, resilience, data integrity, operability, and failure handling.
- Resolve recurring structural problems across teams.
- Stay hands-on with implementation, diagnosis, and prototyping.
- Mentor senior engineers and improve code review quality and engineering decision-making.
- Partner with engineering and product leaders on sequencing, risk, and long-term technical investment.
Requirements
- Demonstrated technical impact across multiple teams or a substantial product domain.
- Deep ownership of distributed backend systems operating at meaningful scale.
- Strong judgment in service boundaries, asynchronous communication, data ownership, consistency, and failure modes.
- Deep knowledge of relational databases, transactions, concurrency, and high-performance design.
- Track record of improving reliability, scalability, observability, or developer effectiveness through durable mechanisms.
- Ability to influence technical direction through evidence, clarity, and trusted execution.
- Clear communication and strong engineering fundamentals.
- Judgment to determine when to standardize, simplify, or leave a system unchanged.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSClickHouseDockerElasticsearchGoGrafanaJavaKibanaKubernetesMariaDBNode.jsPostgreSQLRedisTypeScript
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About Trading212
Trading 212 builds a retail investing and trading platform for individuals, offering commission-free stocks and ETFs, ISAs and SIPPs in the UK, and CFDs across forex, commodities and indices. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in London, it is privately held and operates in the UK, Europe and Australia under FCA, CySEC, BaFin and ASIC oversight.