Staff Backend Engineer

Kurz zusammengefasst

The Staff Backend Engineer role at Trading212 Germany involves leading the design, implementation, and scaling of core micro‑services that support real‑time order execution, risk management and market‑data pipelines. You will work closely with product, data‑science and DevOps teams while mentoring senior engineers and shaping technical strategy for a fast‑growing fintech platform. Day‑to‑day you will architect and build high‑throughput, low‑latency services, maintain distributed systems using Kafka, gRPC and Kubernetes, enforce CI/CD best practices and ensure reliable deployment on cloud infrastructure. A solid grasp of financial‑services concepts is required to align engineering output with trading requirements. What the role asks for: - 8+ years high‑throughput, low‑latency system development - Proficiency in Java, Kotlin or Go - Expertise with Kafka, gRPC, Kubernetes - Strong understanding of financial‑services concepts - Experience with CI/CD pipelines - Experience on AWS or GCP cloud platforms