Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Trade Republic
App Platform
1-5 days a week in office
Investment platform
Open for applications
Investment platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
1-5 days a week in office
501-1000 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
- Previous Experience working in software engineering. This includes cloud, infrastructure, distributed systems, systems engineering and networking)
- Well-rounded understanding of managing business-critical systems in cloud infrastructure, following best practices for observability and scalability
- Good understanding of distributed systems, system engineering and networking
- Solid experience with at least one programming language. We mostly use Kotlin, Java and Python but we are far more interested in your well-roundedness as an engineer rather than knowledge of a certain language, tool or framework
- Exceptional ownership and drive to create business impact & to empower your colleagues to become better every day
- Strong communication skills and ability to drive ideas & technical implementations to stakeholders from various backgrounds
What the job involves
- In Platform Engineering we believe in the power of autonomy and in giving end-to-end ownership to all engineers. To support Platform Engineering’s mission, we —Application Platform — power up the infrastructure that serves millions of users of Trade Republic. We do so through the creation of self-service platforms that support compute, storage and communication between systems
- More specifically, Application Platform enables…
- Supporting Kubernetes as a platform for everything compute
- Communication between services through technologies like Kafka, AWS Kinesis and RabbitMQ
- Data storage and caching capabilities through technologies like AWS RDS, Cassandra and Redis
- Ensure scalability, stability and availability of our systems through automation, problem prevention and evangelising system ownership culture
- Further develop the monitoring and alerting for our systems to ensure a reliable service to our customers
- Provide the means for teams to have full observability (e.g. latency, availability, health metrics…) for mission-critical systems once they are live
- Design and maintain scalable infrastructure on the Cloud (AWS), leveraging infrastructure as code with Terraform
- Architect and ship software to help engineering teams adopt best practices to ship software faster through automated continuous integration and delivery pipelines
- Empower your colleagues to become better every day by giving them constant constructive feedback, sharing acquired knowledge and guiding them when applicable
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.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$260m
SERIES C
May 2021
$750m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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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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