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title: 'Senior iOS Engineer at Freetrade'
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# Senior iOS Engineer at Freetrade

- **Company:** Freetrade
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Compensation:** £75k–£115k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/freetrade/6ce1efb6-2aec-4a4f-b896-25e123ec72cd

## Job description

## About Freetrade

Freetrade’s mission is to become the default place to invest. Investing has been too complicated and expensive for too long, keeping millions from making the most of their savings. We’re changing that. We’re building our team and looking for people who are excited to reshape how our customers invest and grow their wealth. If you’re driven by solving complex problems and building innovative products, you’ll fit right in. 2026 is a big year for us. Last year, we announced a game changing deal to become part of the IG Group. We’ll continue to operate as an independent business while gaining access to the resources and support of an established leader in the space. This year, we’re accelerating our roadmap and taking our products to the next level. We’re building new features like mutual funds, bonds, and family investment tools. We’re also exploring how we can leverage AI to deliver an even better experience for our customers.

Why Join Our Engineering Team?

Freetrade Engineers play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining a robust, scalable platform used by thousands daily. We tackle big technical challenges, drive innovation, and build solutions that make a real impact.

Here, your code doesn’t just run - it powers the decisions of investors across the UK.

## About the role

As part of our dedicated mobile engineering team, you will work on implementing new features. In collaboration with design, product and QE teams you will craft user experiences that will delight our customers.

You will also help guide priorities around platform issues, technical debt, patterns, and architecture, ensuring we deliver a high-quality app and an excellent developer experience.

We have recently rebranded key parts of the app, creating a new design system from scratch built with Swift UI, and have started transitioning to a modern, unified GraphQL API using Apollo.

## What you’ll do

- Lead the design and delivery of new features, alongside improving and maintaining the Freetrade iOS app, ensuring high performance, quality, security and robustness.
- Own features end to end, collaborating with backend, design, product and QE to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Set and hold a high bar for code quality through hands-on development, code reviews and effective testing.
- Resolve complex issues, address bottlenecks and reduce technical debt.
- Drive improvements in engineering standards and practices.
- Mentor and support junior engineers on design, implementation and best practices.
- Participate in a support rota to understand and resolve customer issues, including direct communication where needed.

## About you

- Typically 6+ years of experience building production-grade mobile applications.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to lead technical decisions and deliver complex features.
- Deep understanding of iOS architecture and common patterns
- Strong experience with Swift, DI frameworks, and SwiftUI.
- Good understanding of GraphQL and integrating with backend services.
- Experience with Combine, Swift Concurrency or RxSwift.
- Familiarity with git and collaborative development practices.
- Understanding of CI and build tooling such as CircleCI.
- Experience mentoring and growing more junior engineers.

Our hybrid model We work from our central London and Budapest offices on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, leaving Wednesday and Friday for dedicated focus time at home. We believe in the power of in-person collaboration to build a strong culture, but we know "life happens." If you have caregiving or personal responsibilities that require extra flexibility, let’s talk about it.

Our interview process We keep things simple and transparent. You’ll meet one of our Talent Partners for a technical screening call, typically followed by:

- Hiring Manager interview
- Live coding interview
- System design interview
- Values interview

Check out our [benefits](https://freetrade.io/careers#benefits)

We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability - we want to hear from you. To find out more about how we look after your personal data when you apply for a job with us, please see our Recruitment Privacy Policy [here.](https://freetrade.io/legal/privacy-policy) Please note we are not accepting agency CVs.

## About Freetrade

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Freetrade is an award-winning, self-directed investment platform that makes investing simpler, more accessible, and better value for UK investors.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of IG Group, a FTSE 100 listed company)
- **Headquarters**: London, UK (Old Street)
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Fintech / Online Brokerage & Investment Services
- **Target customers**: B2C – individual investors (new and experienced) in the UK
- **Mission or purpose**: To become the default place to invest by building a platform that is simple, reliable, and built for the long term.

## Products & Services
- **Commission‑Free Trading**: Buy and sell US, UK, and European stocks, ETFs, and bonds without per‑trade fees.
- **Tax‑Efficient Accounts**: ISAs (Stocks and Shares ISA) and Pensions (SIPP) for tax‑wrapped investing.
- **Investment Choices**: Access to 8,200+ investment options including funds, stocks, ETFs, bonds, and more.
- **Freetrade Plus**: Premium subscription tier offering additional features (e.g., extended market data, larger order sizes).

All products are delivered via a cloud‑native, self‑built brokerage platform that eliminates intermediary layers to reduce costs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (Freetrade is privately held; its parent company IG Group is FTSE 100 with a market cap of >£5 billion as of mid‑2024)
- **Key Metric**: Over 1.6 million registered users (as of 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by over 19,000 crowdfunding shareholders and institutional investors including Molten, Left Lane Capital, Capricorn, The Phoenix, and L Catterton. Now part of IG Group.
- **Growth Signals**: Pioneered commission‑free investing in the UK in 2018; has since grown to 8,200+ investment choices; opened a Budapest office in 2022 to support scaling; consistently wins industry awards for value and innovation.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Direct Market Plumbing**: Freetrade built its own brokerage platform connecting directly to capital markets, bypassing the intermediaries that competitors rely on – enabling lower fees.
- **Commission‑Free Model**: First to offer zero‑commission trading in the UK, a strong differentiator.
- **Regulatory Trust**: Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA); client deposits and investments are protected by the FSCS (up to £85,000).
- **Tech‑First Approach**: The platform is cloud‑native, built to handle high volatility and scale rapidly.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding product features (pensions, wider asset classes) and deepening the UK user base.
- Maintain cost‑leadership through proprietary technology and direct market access.
- Strengthen the employer brand and engineering hub in Budapest while growing the London HQ.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Open, transparent, and collaborative environment with values of Honesty, Focus, and Grit.
- **Hybrid Model**: Teams typically spend three days per week in the office (London or Budapest) and two days working from home.
- **Global Flexibility**: Four weeks per year working from anywhere globally.
- **Benefits (UK)**:
  - 25 days annual leave (increasing with tenure) + your birthday off
  - Comprehensive private medical insurance (Vitality)
  - Enhanced pension contributions
  - Life assurance (5x salary)
  - Enhanced parental leave
  - Cycle to Work scheme
  - Free Freetrade Plus membership
  - Company social events
- **Benefits (Budapest)**:
  - 25 days annual leave + birthday off
  - Private health insurance (Medicover) with dental and diagnostics
  - Enhanced paternity leave
  - Flexible cafeteria allowance
  - Reimbursement for prescription glasses
- **Growth**: A place to build a career, not just take a role – real ownership and exposure to a growing fintech with a clear mission.
- **Engineering Focus**: Tech‑first problem solving; the platform is built entirely in‑house, offering opportunities to work on cutting‑edge brokerage infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [freetrade.io](https://freetrade.io/) – Company homepage
2. [freetrade.io/about](https://freetrade.io/about) – About page
3. [freetrade.io/careers](https://freetrade.io/careers) – Careers page (London & Budapest offices, hybrid policy, benefits)
4. [freetrade.io/careers (job posting)](https://freetrade.io/careers?ashby_jid=90d5d5fc-1b7c-4483-9bff-b24d2caca97a) – Detailed benefits and hiring process
5. [uk.linkedin.com/company/freetrade](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/freetrade) – LinkedIn company page

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