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Trading212

Senior Backend Engineer

Spain
Level
Senior
Work type
Remote · Spain only

Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.

Open. First seen 2 October 2026.

About the role

Our mission is to enable everyone to build wealth

Trading212's standard text

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

That takes high standards, high velocity and engineers who own what they ship.

Today, we serve over 6 million clients, with more than €38 billion in assets under management - a testament to the scale and trust we have 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 Kibana.

About the role

Senior Backend Engineers work across our backend organisation. Your team match will reflect your strengths, interests and where you can contribute most.

Across every team, the model is the same: small, autonomous groups, short release cycles and ownership from problem definition through production.

What you’ll do

  • Own backend solutions end to end: understand the business problem, shape the requirements, design the solution, build it, test it, deploy it and run it in production.
  • Design and evolve services for performance, scale, resilience and data integrity.
  • Make clear technical decisions with a full understanding of the constraints, alternatives and trade-offs.
  • Keep code and systems maintainable as products and requirements evolve.
  • Diagnose difficult production problems, address their underlying causes and prevent recurrence.
  • Work closely with product and engineering colleagues to turn complex requirements into simple, durable solutions.
  • Review work critically, share knowledge and raise the engineering standard across the team.

What you need to have

  • Proven ownership of backend services built and operated within a microservices architecture.
  • A strong grasp of communication protocols such as HTTP, WebSockets and AMQP, including when to apply each.
  • Production fluency in at least one modern backend framework.
  • Deep knowledge of relational databases, including indexing, transactions, isolation levels, locking mechanisms and high-performance design.
  • A track record of designing systems for high availability, scalability and resilience.
  • Clear, structured problem-solving and the ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals, sound judgement and confidence learning unfamiliar technologies.

Depth in one backend ecosystem and sound tool choice matter more than familiarity with every technology listed.

Trading212's standard text

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

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

WebSockets

Rare in Trading212's other 41 open postings.

Standard for backend roles

AWS · Java · Kubernetes · PostgreSQL

Common in backend postings at any company.

In most of Trading212's ads

TypeScript

Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.

94% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Trading212's standard text, folded away below.

Read against Trading212's other open postings on this site.

The team: Engineering

This role is one of 28 open in Engineering. 4 were posted in the last 30 days.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

TypeScript (28 of 28), JavaScript (16 of 28), AWS (14 of 28), ClickHouse (14 of 28), Docker (14 of 28), Elasticsearch (14 of 28), Golang (14 of 28)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Trading212's own job board.

Salary context

52 other open postings titled Senior Backend Engineer state a salary: median USD 170,000 to USD 225,000 a year.

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