Mid Backend Engineer

The role

Mid Backend Engineers work across the backend organisation in small, autonomous teams. You will own features and services end to end, from design and building to deployment and production monitoring.

What you will do

• Own features and services end to end
• Design for performance, scale and resilience
• Take real ownership of your code
• Diagnose and fix production issues
• Work closely with product and engineering colleagues
• Contribute to the team's engineering standard

Required qualifications

• Solid, hands-on experience delivering backend services in production
• Proven backend engineering experience in Java
• Proven ownership of backend services built and operated within a microservices architecture
• Production fluency in at least one modern backend framework (e.g. Spring Boot for Java, or an equivalent in Go or Node.js)
• A strong grasp of communication protocols such as HTTP, WebSockets and AMQP
• Deep knowledge of relational databases, including indexing, transactions, isolation levels, locking mechanisms and high-performance design
• A track record of designing systems for high availability, scalability and resilience
• Clear, structured problem-solving and the ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs
• Strong engineering fundamentals, sound judgement and confidence learning unfamiliar technologies

Nice to have

• Strong production experience in Go or Node.js

Benefits

• Challenges that will help you grow and realise your potential really fast
• The opportunity to make a big impact
• Work with smart, spirited, helpful, high-performing colleagues
• An environment where nothing is set in stone
• Appreciation for your talent and ideas
• A generous remuneration package, including annual bonuses
• An excellent social benefits package, including private health insurance, sports card and 25 days of paid vacation per year
• Delicious treats and a spacious game room

Before you apply

• Recruiter conversation
• Technical Interview
• Managerial interview
• Only candidates selected for interview will be contacted

About the company

trading212 reinvents how trading and investing work by creating products for over 6 million clients. The company serves more than €40 billion in assets under management.