About the Role
Trade Republic is Europe's largest savings platform, serving over 10 million customers across 18 countries. We aim to empower everyone to build wealth through easy, safe, and free access to financial systems. This role offers the chance to grow your career by collaborating with talented individuals and utilizing state-of-the-art technology to shape a positive future for millions.
Responsibilities
- Build and own production-grade infrastructure for real-time ML, feature serving, and critical decisioning systems.
- Design data-intensive platforms that process high-volume event streams with low latency and strong reliability.
- Define reusable engineering patterns to help teams reliably build, ship, operate, and scale platform capabilities.
- Build and operate data streaming and serving platforms for sub-second algorithms in mission-critical systems.
- Collaborate with ML, data, backend, and product teams to translate complex requirements into simple, reliable systems.
- Mentor peers, share knowledge, and enhance engineering ownership across the team.
Requirements
- Strong background in software, systems, or infrastructure engineering.
- Hands-on experience building and operating production-grade services on Kubernetes.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking, latency, reliability, backpressure, and operational trade-offs.
- Ability to make pragmatic trade-offs across performance, scalability, cost, and reliability in large-scale production systems.
- Capability to work across infrastructure, data, backend, and ML systems, translating ambiguous requirements into simple, reliable platform capabilities.
- Strong interpersonal skills, high autonomy, and a focus on knowledge sharing and team growth.
Skills
- Kubernetes
- Distributed systems
- Networking
- Latency
- Reliability
- Backpressure
- Performance
- Scalability
- Cost optimization
- Reliability optimization
- ClickHouse
- Kafka
- Flink
- Stream processing
- High-performance SQL
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Trade Republic is the largest savings platform in Europe, operating in 18 countries with over 10 million customers and €150B in assets.
- Our mission is to empower everyone to build wealth through easy, safe, and free access to financial systems.
- We foster a culture that rewards ownership, excellence, and high energy.
- We are committed to closing the pension gap and democratizing wealth in Europe.
- We believe our team's varied identities and backgrounds make us sharper and stronger.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected and has equal opportunity to thrive in their careers.
- For any questions on DEI during the interview process, reach out to your recruitment partner.
