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About the Role

Platform Engineering is the backbone of Trade Republic's engineering velocity. Our mission is to build scalable platforms for a Europe-scale bank — serving internal engineers, and building in-house control planes for managing the bank's infrastructure. The Backend Reliability team builds and owns Trade Republic's most critical backend systems — the services that process every trade, every payment, every savings plan. This is a software engineering role first: we believe the best reliability work happens at the code level, not the runbook level.

Responsibilities

Design and implement new backend services and platform components in Kotlin — high-throughput, low-latency, fault-tolerant by design.
Define and drive SLOs, model failure modes during design, implement circuit breakers, bulkheads, graceful degradation, and retry strategies directly in the application layer.
Design and run load tests, stress tests, and chaos experiments against critical backend services.
Define best practices for service design, error handling, resiliency patterns, and safe deployment.
Model traffic growth, identify performance bottlenecks across the application and data layer, and own the engineering work that keeps systems performant ahead of demand.
Own post-mortems for critical service failures and ensure findings close real gaps.
Define and implement structured logging, distributed tracing, and alerting standards for critical backend services.

Requirements

5+ years of hands-on backend software engineering experience, with deep ownership of production systems at scale.
Strong programming skills in Go, with experience building infrastructure automation as software rather than scripts.
Proven experience building resilient, high-throughput distributed systems.
Experience with load testing, performance profiling, and capacity planning at scale.
Familiarity with event-driven architectures and distributed data systems in production.
A track record of raising engineering standards.
Production experience with container orchestration and modern infrastructure.
Strong incident command and post-mortem skills.

Skills

Kotlin
Go
event-driven architectures
distributed data systems
container orchestration
modern infrastructure
load testing
performance profiling
capacity planning
structured logging
distributed tracing
alerting

Location

London, United Kingdom
Berlin, Germany
Paris, France

Work Type

Hybrid
Relocation support provided

Experience Level

5+ years of hands-on backend software engineering experience

About the Company

Trade Republic is the largest savings platform in Europe - we operate in 17 countries, serving +4 million customers who trusted us with over 35B in assets.
We have a bold mission to empower everyone to build wealth with easy, safe, and free access to financial systems.
You will have the opportunity to grow your career by collaborating with a team of outstanding talents and state of the art technology to build a lasting, positive future for millions.
Our culture rewards ownership, excellence, and high energy.
We care deeply about outcomes and hold each other accountable - we’re here to win and fix one of the largest challenges Europeans face - closing the pension gap and democratising wealth.

Equal Opportunity

We believe it’s our team’s varied identities and backgrounds that make us sharper and stronger.
We’re committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected and has equal opportunity to thrive in their careers.
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