Trading212 is hiring a Backend Engineer - Spain

Trading212 is hiring a Backend Engineer in Spain to develop backend solutions for our high-scale trading platform. You'll take full ownership of the software development lifecycle, building for performance, scale, and resilience in an autonomous team environment.

What You'll Do

• Develop solutions by taking a holistic approach to problem-solving, understanding business problems, service architecture, technologies, and infrastructure.
• Engage in forming requirements, designing implementation, coding, testing, deploying, and monitoring – lead the full SDLC.
• Maintain full ownership of your code, keeping it in good shape and refactoring when there’s opportunity.
• Develop for performance, scale, and resilience in an environment where downtime, latency, and data loss are intolerable.
• Work in compact, autonomous teams with short release cycles using agile processes.
• Learn from colleagues and share knowledge, growing through mutual honest feedback.

What We're Looking For

• Good familiarity with common communication protocols (HTTP/WebSockets & AMQP) and ability to decide when to use one over the other.
• Prior experience with at least one commonplace web framework, regardless of language.
• Good understanding of RDBMS concepts: indexing, transactions, isolation levels, locking mechanisms, and ability to design high-performance databases.

Nice to Have

• Experience with developing services in a microservice architecture.
• Experience with in-memory databases (e.g., Redis/Memcached).
• Ongoing or completed CS education.

Technical Stack

• Languages: Java 17 - Spring, Go
• Databases: Apache Cassandra, MariaDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, TimescaleDB, ClickHouse
• Infrastructure & Tools: Apache Kafka, Nginx, HAProxy, Git, GitLab, Docker, Grafana, Kibana, Telegraf

Team & Environment

You'll work in compact, autonomous teams with short release cycles.

Benefits & Compensation

• Challenges that help you grow and realize your potential fast.
• Opportunity to make a big impact building services used by millions.
• Work with smart, spirited, helpful, high-performing colleagues.
• An environment where nothing is set in stone.
• Appreciation for your talent and ideas.
• Generous remuneration package including annual bonuses.
• Excellent social benefits package including private health insurance.
• 25 days of paid vacation per year.

Work Mode

This role is based locally in Spain.

Trading212 is an equal opportunity employer.