Mid Backend Engineer
Trading2121 month ago
Bulgaria (city not specified)Mid Level
Responsibilities
- Own backend features and services end to end, from shaping requirements and designing solutions through production deployment and monitoring.
- Build services designed for performance, scale, resilience, low latency, and graceful failure.
- Maintain, refactor, and improve code as requirements evolve.
- Diagnose production issues, address root causes, and add safeguards to prevent recurrence.
- Collaborate with product and engineering colleagues to turn moderately complex requirements into durable solutions.
- Review code, share knowledge, and contribute to the team’s engineering standards.
Requirements
- Hands-on production experience delivering and operating backend services, ideally in a microservices architecture.
- Working knowledge of communication protocols such as HTTP and AMQP.
- Production experience with at least one modern backend framework.
- Solid understanding of relational databases, including indexing, transactions, isolation levels, and normalized schema design.
- Exposure to high availability, scalability, or resilience design principles.
- Clear, structured problem-solving skills and the ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs.
- Strong engineering fundamentals, sound judgment, and the ability to learn unfamiliar technologies.
Benefits
- Generous remuneration package including annual bonuses.
- Private health insurance.
- Sports card.
- 25 days of paid vacation per year.
- Growth opportunities and the chance to build services used by millions of investors.
- Collaborative, high-performing colleagues and an informal workplace with treats and a game room.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSClickHouseDockerElasticsearchGoGrafanaJavaKubernetesMariaDBNode.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.