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title: 'Junior Backend Engineer at Trading212'
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# Junior Backend Engineer at Trading212

- **Company:** Trading212
- **Location:** Bulgaria
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/trading212/4ece0a7b-c53e-4771-a8fd-ef82495226c1

## 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 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!

## About Trading212

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Trading 212 is a fintech company that democratises financial markets by offering a commission-free, easy-to-use app for trading stocks, ETFs, forex, commodities, and crypto.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by organic growth, no disclosed external funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: London, UK (with major offices in Limassol, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Sydney, Dublin, Sofia, and Plovdiv)
- **Founded**: 2004 (the company states 2004; some sources reference 2003)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (the founding team is not named in public sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Fintech – stock brokerage and digital investing
- **Target Customers**: B2C retail investors and traders; also serves sophisticated traders through quant tools
- **Mission/Purpose**: “To enable everyone to build wealth” by making financial markets accessible through advanced technology and zero-commission trading

## Products & Services
- **Trading 212 App**: Mobile and web platform for commission-free trading in stocks, ETFs, forex, commodities, and cryptocurrencies. Supports fractional shares, 24/5 trading, and multi-currency accounts.
- **Trading 212 Invest**: Core investing account with zero commissions on real stocks and ETFs.
- **Trading 212 ISA**: UK tax-efficient Stocks & Shares ISA account.
- **Trading 212 CFD**: Contracts for difference product for leveraged trading on forex, indices, commodities, and crypto (offered through CySEC-regulated entity).
- **Features**: 24/7 customer support, fractional shares, instant deposits/withdrawals, social investing (planned), API access for algorithmic trading.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metrics**: Over 5 million lifetime funded accounts; €3+ billion in client assets; 650+ employees (global headcount); 17 nationalities represented
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors publicly listed (company is self-funded through revenue). Regulatory licences: FCA (UK), CySEC (Cyprus), BaFin (Germany), ASIC (Australia), FSC (Bulgaria).
- **Growth Signals**: Client base grew 20x and client assets grew 50x in the past few years; ranked UK’s #1 trading app since 2016 and Germany’s #1 in 2017; Trustpilot score of 4.6 with over 95,000 reviews

## Competitive Advantages
- **Zero-Commission Pioneer**: First broker to offer commission-free stock trading in the UK and Europe, disrupting the traditional brokerage model.
- **User Experience Obsession**: Built from the ground up with software engineering and product design at the core; consistently top-rated app.
- **Regulatory Trust**: Licensed and regulated in multiple jurisdictions (FCA, CySEC, BaFin, ASIC) with segregated client funds and compensation scheme coverage.
- **Client Support**: 24/7 support with average response time of 29 seconds.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global Expansion**: Opening offices in new markets (e.g., Australia, Germany) and scaling engineering/product teams.
- **Technology Innovation**: Investing in quant trading, crypto infrastructure, social investing, data science, and extreme scalability.
- **Product Diversification**: Expanding beyond core trading into social/community features and advanced algorithmic tools.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Ideas over hierarchy” – critical thinking and challenge are encouraged; “Freedom and ownership” – employees own their work and decisions.
- **Team & Diversity**: 650+ teammates from 17 nationalities; hiring exceptional individuals with a collaborative, flat environment.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with offices in London, Berlin, Sofia, Plovdiv, Limassol, Dublin, Sydney, and Düsseldorf.
- **Perks & Benefits** (location-dependent): Premium health insurance, sports & wellness package, regular office massages, catered food and stocked kitchen, epic seasonal team buildings, game room in some offices.
- **Engineering Culture**: Heavy focus on product engineering (Kotlin, React, React Native), data science, and infrastructure; open roles for senior/staff engineers and DevOps.

## Sources
1. [trading212.com](https://www.trading212.com/careers) – Careers page with stats, culture, and open roles
2. [trading212.com](https://www.trading212.com/about-us) – About us page with regulatory details and company description
3. [trading212.com](https://www.trading212.com/press) – Press page with key metrics
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/trading-212) – Built In profile with headcount, offices, and recent growth data
5. [trading212.com](https://www.trading212.com/) – Homepage featuring product stats and features

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