Plus500 is a world-leading online trading platform with hundreds of thousands of active users placing millions of trades a month.
Our mission is to disrupt the age-old trade markets by building digital technologies that make trading around the world accessible and more efficient.
What to Expect - The Role
We are looking for a highly motivated backend software engineer specializing in creating high-scale, distributed backend systems.
You must demonstrate strong software engineering skills, excellent interpersonal communication, extreme ownership, and the ability to accept and give meaningful technical feedback.
You will be responsible for designing architecture, writing correct, robust code, maintaining and improving existing functionality, and shipping new features.
You will work as part of a Scrum-Agile cross-functional team and collaborate with front-end engineers, quality engineers, product managers, and more.
The platform you help us build will scale novel functionality to millions of Plus users worldwide.
Our team strives to set the bar for real-time, high-scale, mission-critical trading systems. We want to work with people who are excited by this goal and have the talent to deliver on it.
What You’ll Do - Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, high-availability mission-critical systems and APIs
- Drive the migration of large-scale, distributed trading services towards cloud-native microservices
- Solve problems using distributed, asynchronous messaging
- Tackle technical challenges - performance, fault-tolerance, security, and live production issues
- Work closely with product, DevOps\SRE, and infrastructure teams - we practice full-cycle development where developers own and operate what they build.
- Mentor Jr engineers as a Senior member of the team
What You’ll Bring - Requirements
- 5+ years of building SaaS applications, preferably in a service-oriented architecture
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- Expertise in modern web development frameworks, C#, Java, or equivalent.
- Experience in writing optimized SQL and working against various different datastores.
- Demonstrated success with scalable web applications or messaging systems
- Experience with web security is a plus.
Compensation and Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Plus employee, you are eligible for the following benefits:
- Yearly Bonus and RSU grants based on performance
- Online\On-Site Courses, attend public conferences, and many other growth and learning opportunities.
- Health Insurance
- Gym, Pilates, Yoga, and others
- Cibus\10Bis
- Tickets to our sponsored team's games
- Social events
Where you'll be
- We offer a hybrid work policy : 3 on-site plus 2 flexible days.
- Work is located at the Matam, Haifa R&D Center.
Plus500 is a publicly listed company, we welcome you to read and learn about our business strategy, strengths, and results on our investor relations page.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of building SaaS applications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Expertise in modern web development frameworks
- Experience in writing optimized SQL
- Demonstrated success with scalable web applications or messaging systems
What We Do
Plus500 is a global multi-asset fintech group that offers trading services on CFDs, shares, Futures, and Options on Futures through its proprietary tech-based platforms. The fintech group has a premium listing on the Main Market of the LSE, and is a member of the FTSE 250 index. Plus500’s market leadership is based on a proprietary trading technology that offers trading services to customers around the world. Our customers can use our platforms to trade Over the Counter CFDs and, since 2021, real Shares, as well as Futures, and Options on Futures*. The company also owns Cunningham Commodities LLC, a regulated Futures Commission Merchant, CTS, a technology trading platform provider, in the US, and EZ Invest Securities, Co. a Forex CFD platform in Japan. Plus500 is also the proud sponsor of multiple leading sports teams including BSC Young Boys, and Legia Warsaw, as well as the 6-times NBA winner, the Chicago Bulls. With our diversified product portfolio and operating licenses in the United Kingdom, Australia, Cyprus, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, Seychelles, United Arab Emirates, the United States, Estonia, and Japan, we are able to provide customers with access to more than 2,500 financial instruments across more than 50 countries and in 30 languages. Plus500 is also committed to promoting responsible trading practices, such as providing customers with sophisticated risk management tools to ensure they are able to manage leveraged exposure appropriately, with the aim of protecting any profits and limiting exposure to losses. *Availability subject to regulation. Not all financial instruments are offered by all Plus500 regulated entities. Investments in complex instruments come with a high risk of losing money rapidly. You should consider whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Go to https://bit.ly/3Ac1Ngc for more information about the risks in trading.
