(Senior) Platform Engineer, Trade Republic
Golang
1-5 days a week in office
Investment platform
Open for applications
Investment platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make private wealth accumulation and retirement planning easier for millions of Europeans with easy and secure access to the capital markets.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years building backend or platform services in Go
- Cloud-native in your DNA: hands-on with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and experienced running production workloads on AWS, GCP, or another public cloud
- A passion for designing simple APIs for complex infrastructure
- Proven ability to make distributed systems reliable under real‑world traffic
- Demonstrated ability to turn best practices into opinionated “paved roads” that make doing the right thing effortless
- Clear, concise English communication
- The toolbox we use (and you probably know): Go, Kubernetes (EKS), Karpenter, ArgoCD, AWS, Terraform, Backstage, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana. Experience with every single item is not required—bring your strengths and curiosity
What the job involves
- We’re building the platform to close the pension gap in Europe. Trade Republic is known for shipping fast and strong, and at the core of this is Platform Engineering providing robust and scalable self-service platforms to enable our product engineers to deliver
- Moving into the direction of golden paths, self service, and autonomy. We encapsulate complexity and deliver scalable solutions that empower millions of users to invest, trade, and save billions of euros
- Build the platform: Build in-house provisioning and lifecycle management services in Go—from just-in-time provisioning to hands-off retirement—while integrating directly with underlying infrastructure endpoints and surfacing golden-path templates in our IDP
- Accelerate developer feedback loops: Empower teams to spin up production services in minutes, instrument key developer metrics, and channel those insights back into the platform—cutting cycle times and enabling product engineers to ship great features faster
- Engineer for resilience at scale: Define and monitor SLOs, burn-rates, and error budgets for every platform service. Continuously improve our platform product through functional and non functional testing. Lead blameless post-incident reviews and automate safety guardrails
- Own the platform: Shape the roadmap end-to-end—work with product managers to understand user needs, balance cost, latency, and developer experience, pick the right tech, and clearly explain trade-offs to leadership
Our take
Trading has quickly become one of the biggest activities powering the global economy, with global equity trading amounting to over $100 trillion each year and growing, so it's a lucrative market that many want in on. Behind the rapid rise of its global growth are mobile brokerages, equally on the rise for their ease of use and increased access to information, they are powering the way for the future of the trading industry.
Trade Republic is a German-based mobile brokerage platform allowing users to buy and sell stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), as well as other financial instruments all from their smartphones. As the platform operates exclusively through a mobile app, Trade Republic is making it easier than ever for a wider audience to get into trading and because of this, along with its low fees, the app has quickly become a popular choice for those looking to invest.
Since the company launched to the market in 2019, it has raised a significant amount of funding, amounting to over $1bn, and welcomes over one million users to its app, indicating the company's growth and reputation. Going forward, the company is focused on further expanding its offerings to more European countries and recently announced a step in this direction, having launched in Ireland.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$294.4m
SERIES C
May 2021
$750m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Christian Hecker
(Co-Founder)Experienced in Investment Banking having previously worked for Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch.
Marco Cancellieri
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as an iOS Engineer at Hubert Burda Media.
Thomas Pischke
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with a Masters's degree in Physics, with a special focus on quantum computing.
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