Senior Backend Engineer
Trading212 · Remote · Romania ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior Backend Engineer
- Fully remote (Europe)
- Java, Go, Node.js
- Microservices architecture
- High-scale fintech
Join a fintech company reinventing trading and investing for over six million clients with billions in assets under management. You will work in small, autonomous groups with short release cycles, taking full ownership of backend solutions from problem definition to production operation.
The engineering culture emphasizes high standards, velocity, and deep technical ownership. You will design and evolve services for scale and resilience while collaborating closely with product and engineering peers to deliver durable solutions.
What you'll do
- Own backend solutions end-to-end from design to production deployment
- Design services optimized for performance, scale, and data integrity
- Make technical decisions based on constraints and trade-off analysis
- Diagnose complex production issues and prevent their recurrence
- Collaborate with product teams to simplify complex requirements
- Review code and share knowledge to raise engineering standards
What you'll need
- Proven experience operating backend services in microservices architecture
- Strong grasp of HTTP, WebSockets, and AMQP communication protocols
- Production fluency in at least one modern backend framework
- Deep knowledge of relational databases, indexing, and transactions
- Track record of designing systems for high availability and scalability
- Ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs clearly
Stack
- Java 21
- Spring
- Go
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- MariaDB
- Redis
- Kafka
- ClickHouse
- Elasticsearch
- Docker
- Grafana
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Kibana
How you'll work
- Small, autonomous team structure
- Short release cycles
- Ownership from problem definition to production