Senior Software Engineer

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Full time
Location: London
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Job offered by: Freetrade
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Category: IT & Technology
London

At Freetrade, we believe investing should be accessible to everyone. It’s one of the best ways to grow your savings, but for many, it seems complicated, expensive, and out of reach. We’re here to change that.

We’re building a team with diverse and unique perspectives to help us on our mission to demystify investing. Our goal is to help our customers achieve better long-term financial outcomes.

In 2024, we’ll be focusing on making our business cash flow profitable. We’ll also be radically improving our product for our core customer base. In the UK, we now have over 1.6 million registered users, and we offer a range of products such as the Freetrade Pension, stocks and shares ISA, and UK Treasury bills.

We run a cloud-first environment and make use of many Google Cloud Platform tools such as Firestore, Google Kubernetes Engine, PubSub and Cloud SQL to build a reliable and performant platform with services implemented using Typescript. This is a high-visibility environment where you will make a direct positive impact on customer experience and the business. If you enjoy broadening your technical skills, building a new product, and working in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and innovation, then this is the job for you! We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in our engineering team. In this position, you'll lead the end-to-end delivery of complex, impactful features, showcasing a passion for independent problem-solving and a drive to scale our next-generation, user-focused product. Our team would suit someone who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and enjoys building innovative solutions.

You will... Lead the end-to-end process for development projects and new features from design development

post-production including having an aptitude for software validation. Collaborate frequently with an emphasis on sharing knowledge through team discussions & workshops whilst developing and mentoring more junior members of the team. Set the standards for code reviews across the business and general software engineering best practices. Follow and continually improve upon our coding documentation and company development standards. Thrive in an on-call environment and be the escalation point for high-priority issues with the ability to triage and escalate when necessary. Be an excellent judge of future talent for Freetrade helping us achieve our bold expansion objectives by taking part in (and sometimes leading) technical interviews ensuring a consistent bar is met. Constantly assess the development landscape looking for opportunities to increase efficiencies across the engineering team. You have... Invites participation and devolves responsibility for software design, constructively working to level up the capability of other engineers in your squad. Set high standards for your squad in terms of software quality and delivery performance. You speak candidly when standards are not met and work with your team to continually raise the bar. Have the skills to competently work on complex and unknown problems under pressure. Deep understanding and obsession with the details. A love for the world of investments. Up to date with technology to influence good practices. Benefits & Logistics The application process consists of a 4 stage process. You will initially have an interview with one of our internal Talent Specialists and, after that, meet the Hiring Manager for the role. Followed by a Live Coding and System Design Interview. Concluding with an Executive Interview with the CEO, where we also assess your cultural fit.

We offer a competitive salary plus stock options.

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. We're very open about what we're working on, and the best places

About Freetrade Freetrade is an award-winning investing app with over 1 million users. Our mission is to get everyone investing by making it simpler and more affordable. We bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds, ranging from leading financial services companies to Big Tech to more. Together we are focused on building an open and transparent stockbroker you can trust.

Openness and transparency is in our DNA and applies to all aspects of our company. We encourage an open and inclusive environment and pride ourselves on being candid, curious, focused, humble and gritty.

Our headquarters are based in London and we’re hiring. Department Engineering Employment Type Permanent - Full Time Location London Workplace type Onsite Compensation £70,000 - £100,000 / year

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