Junior Backend Engineer

Posted 15 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Bulgaria
Remote or Hybrid
Junior
Fintech • Software • Financial Services
The Role
Develop backend services in autonomous agile teams, participating in requirements, design, coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and refactoring. Build performant, scalable, resilient solutions while learning from colleagues and contributing to knowledge sharing. The role involves working with distributed systems, web frameworks, communication protocols, databases, and modern cloud-native technologies.
Summary Generated by Built In

Our mission is to enable everyone to build wealth

We reinvent how trading and investing work by creating exceptional products people love.

Fostering a culture of excellence and high velocity is the key to our success. Today, we serve over 6 million clients, with more than €40 billion in assets under management — a testament to the scale and trust we've built in just a few years. At that scale, performance, reliability and data integrity are part of the product.

Our platform is powered by a modern, high-performance engineering stack designed for scale and reliability: Java 21 (Spring), Go, Node.js (TypeScript), PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Redis, Kafka, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Docker, Grafana, AWS, Kubernetes and OpenSearch.

What you’ll do
  • Develop solutions by taking a holistic approach to problem-solving - Work with your team to understand business problems, service architecture, and underlying technologies. You'll be guided to take a holistic approach to problem-solving while learning to consider all aspects of a solution.

  • Engage in forming requirements, design your implementation, code it, test it, deploy and monitor it – Participate in forming requirements, designing implementations, coding, testing, deploying, and monitoring solutions. You'll be supported in taking ownership of your code, ensuring it's well-maintained, and refactoring it when opportunities for improvement arise.

  • Develop for performance, scale and resilience – Learn to develop code that performs well, scales effectively, and is resilient. Understand the importance of minimizing downtime, latency, and data loss, and work towards achieving these goals with support from your team.

  • Work in compact, autonomous teams with short release cycles - Collaborate within compact, autonomous teams with short release cycles. You'll be part of an agile, independent team where you'll learn to balance the right amount of process to maintain velocity without sacrificing structure.

  • Learn from your colleagues and share your knowledge with them - Actively learn from your colleagues and share your knowledge with them. Participate in mutual, honest feedback to help grow individually and as a company.

What you need to have
  • Ongoing or completed CS education.

  • Familiarity with common communication protocols. We expect you to be comfortable with using HTTP & AMQP communication and have the ability to decide when to use one over the other.

  • Prior experience with at least one commonplace web framework, no matter the language. Our system is language-agnostic and we give the engineers the opportunity to choose the specific language based on its appropriateness for the particular task. The microservice architecture allows us to use the newest technologies and we're constantly striving to keep a healthy balance between an up-to-date system and a battle-tested and familiar one.

  • Good understanding of RDBMS concepts. We expect you to know about database indexing and transactions, and you should be able to design basic databases.

What we offer
  • Challenges that will help you grow and realize your potential really fast

  • Opportunity to make a big Impact - you will build innovative services used by millions of investors to build wealth

  • Work with smart, spirited, helpful, high-performing colleagues with a common goal

  • 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, sports card and 25 days of paid vacation per year

  • Delicious treats and a spacious game room

What to expect
  • Coding Task

  • Recruiter conversation

  • Technical Interview

  • Managerial interview

Your recruiter will explain each stage clearly and follow up after every conversation.

Bring your ambition to Europe’s fastest-growing mobile broker!

Skills Required

  • Ongoing or completed computer science education
  • Familiarity with HTTP and AMQP communication protocols
  • Prior experience with at least one common web framework
  • Understanding of relational database concepts, including indexing and transactions
  • Ability to design basic databases
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The Company
HQ: London
559 Employees
Year Founded: 2004

What We Do

Our mission is to enable everyone to build wealth. We reinvent how trading and investing work by creating exceptional products people love. Trading 212 is built with passion by highly driven people who strive for excellence and value freedom. Over the past few years, our client base has grown 20 times to over 2 million, and client assets have grown over 50 times to over €3 billion. Trading 212 was founded in 2003 with one simple idea - to make the financial markets accessible to everyone. From day one, we've been focused on building a great user experience through advanced technology. From the first truly dynamic web apps, to the mobile revolution, we've been at the forefront of every technological wave with the sole purpose of democratising the financial markets. Software engineering and product design are at the heart of what we do. Trading 212 is licensed and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (No. 398/21). When investing, your capital is at risk.

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