Backend Engineer

Please note that this position is based in Berlin, Germany — relocation support is provided if required. 

THE BEST WORK OF YOUR CAREER

Trade Republic is the largest savings platform in Europe — we operate in 18 countries, serving +10 million customers who trust us with over €150B in assets. But we’re striving for more.

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.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Build and test services and products using modern tools from the JVM ecosystem such as Kotlin, Spring and Vert.x, Hibernate or jOOQ.
• Design cloud services focusing on high availability, low latency and scalability (on top of AWS).
• Implement automated software delivery using GitHub Actions, container-based CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes orchestration.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• 5 years of experience in software engineering (preferably in JVM ecosystem).
• Experience with developed and shipped scalable features within a service oriented architecture.
• A strong commitment to delivering reliable and maintainable software using an iterative development approach and continuous delivery.
• Experience with building platform services that act as a foundation and accelerator for product development (prior experience in platform/foundations-focused teams is a plus). 

WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY NOW

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. If this gets you fired up, reach out!