ML Platform Engineer, Trade Republic
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 empower everyone to create wealth with easy, safe and free access to the financial system.
Role
Who you are
- Strong background in software, systems, or infrastructure engineering, with 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
- Able to work across infrastructure, data, backend, and ML systems, translating ambiguous requirements into simple, reliable platform capabilities
- Strong interpersonal skills, self-starter with high autonomy, and a focus on knowledge sharing and team growth
- Nice to have: experience with ClickHouse, Kafka, Flink, or similar technologies for stream processing and high-performance SQL workload
What the job involves
- 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
- 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 that help teams build, ship, operate, and scale platform capabilities reliably
- Build and operate data streaming and serving platforms for sub-second algorithms in mission-critical systems
- Work closely with ML, data, backend, and product teams to turn complex requirements into simple, reliable systems
- Mentor peers, share knowledge, and help raise the quality of engineering ownership across the team
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$288.6m
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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