Junior Software Engineer
Trading 212
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Job Description
Our Mission: Build Wealth for Everyone
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 as a Junior Software Engineer
- 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 + TypeScriptDatabases: Apache Cassandra, MariaDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, TimescaleDB, ClickHouseMessaging: Apache KafkaWeb servers: Nginx, HAProxy, EnvoyVersion control: GitLogs & 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. All personal data of applicants is protected by the law and will be treated with strict confidentiality.
Key skills/competency
- Software Development
- Microservices
- RDBMS
- Java
- Go Programming Language
- JavaScript
- Spring Framework
- Apache Kafka
- Git Version Control
- Performance Tuning
How to Get Hired at Trading 212
- Research Trading 212's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Customize your resume: Highlight CS education, web framework experience, RDBMS skills, and problem-solving abilities tailored to Trading 212.
- Prepare for technical interviews: Focus on data structures, algorithms, system design principles, and practical application of web frameworks and communication protocols.
- Showcase your problem-solving: Emphasize your ability to take a holistic approach, demonstrate ownership of your code, and discuss how you ensure solutions are performant and resilient.
- Demonstrate agile collaboration: Be ready to discuss your experience working in compact, autonomous teams, sharing knowledge, and providing constructive feedback.
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