Senior Backend Software Engineer
Freetrade
Overview
In this role you drive end-to-end delivery of complex features for a fast-growing fintech platform. You’ll work within a cross-functional engineering team to scale a reliable, cloud-based backend used by thousands of investors daily. You’ll lead design, development, and post-production activities while mentoring others and upholding coding standards. The role offers visibility, impact on customer experience, and the chance to shape a modern, AI-aware investing platform.
Pay / Benefits- competitive salary
- bonus scheme
- 25 days holidays + birthday and anniversary day
- enhanced pension (5% matched)
- private health insurance including mental health and dental/vision
- life insurance (5x salary)
- Lead end-to-end development of new features from design to post-production
- Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge through team discussions and workshops
- Set and enforce code review standards and software engineering best practices
- Maintain and improve coding documentation and development standards
- Serve as on-call escalation point for high-priority issues and triage as needed
- Participate in technical interviews to assess talent and support growth objectives
- Identify opportunities to increase efficiencies across the engineering team
- Contribute to technical strategy and landscape assessments to support scalable delivery
- experience delivering complex, scalable backend features
- strong problem-solving skills under pressure
- ability to mentor engineers and raise the bar for quality
- familiarity with cloud-based environments and on-call reliability
- comfort with interviewing and talent assessment
- deep attention to detail and passion for the investments domain
- collaboration
- mentoring
- clear communication
- Typescript
- cloud-based architecture
- on-call incident management
Reference: WJ-747_30169911