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Junior Backend Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Ongoing or completed computer science education
  • Familiarity with common communication protocols; comfortable with HTTP and AMQP and able to decide when to use each
  • Experience with at least one common web framework; the system is language-agnostic, allowing you to choose the language best suited for the task
  • Solid understanding of relational database concepts (indexes, transactions) and basic database design

Requirements:

  • Develop solutions by taking a holistic approach to problem-solving, understanding business problems, service architecture, and underlying technologies
  • Participate in requirements gathering, designing implementations, coding, testing, deploying, and monitoring solutions; take ownership of your code and refactor when opportunities arise
  • Develop for performance, scale and resilience; minimize downtime, latency, and data loss with support from your team
  • Work in compact, autonomous teams with short release cycles in an agile environment; learn from colleagues and share knowledge through mutual feedback

Job description

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 4.5 million clients, with more than €30 billion in assets under management - a testament to the scale and trust we’ve built in just a few years.

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.

Our tech stack

  • Languages and frameworks: Java 17 - Spring, Go, JavaScript - ReactNative + TypeScript

  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, TimescaleDB, ClickHouse
    Messaging: Apache Kafka

  • Web servers: Nginx, HAProxy, Envoy

  • Version control: Git

  • Logs & Monitoring: Grafana, Kibana, StatsD (Telegraf)

  • Team communication: Slack

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

Are you ready to accelerate your career with us? We'd love to hear from you!

We thank all applicants, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

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