Staff Frontend Engineer
Trading2123 months ago
Germany (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Set direction for frontend architecture across React, React Native, and the shared monorepo.
- Own cross-team platform capabilities, shared libraries, design-system foundations, tooling, and developer experience.
- Lead decisions involving application boundaries, abstractions, state and data flow, performance, testing, and migration strategy.
- Diagnose and resolve systemic rendering, bundle, runtime, and release-quality problems.
- Remain hands-on with implementation, prototyping, and technical investigations.
- Partner with product, backend engineering, and QA on cross-team risks and decisions.
- Mentor senior engineers and improve review quality and consistency of frontend judgment.
- Balance standardization with team autonomy to maximize platform leverage.
Requirements
- Demonstrated architectural or platform impact across multiple frontend teams.
- Deep ownership of complex production systems built with React or React Native and TypeScript.
- Strong judgment in application boundaries, shared libraries, state management, performance, and migration design.
- A track record of improving developer effectiveness, reliability, or product quality through durable mechanisms.
- Practical experience diagnosing performance and correctness problems across web or mobile systems.
- Ability to influence technical direction through evidence, clarity, and trusted execution rather than title.
- Clear communication of complex technical decisions.
- Strong engineering and product judgment, including knowing when not to introduce a new abstraction.
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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.