Trading 212
Staff Backend Engineer
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · Bulgaria
Employer listed it 4 weeks ago · Added yesterday
Been open since 4 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Hybrid · Bulgaria
Work style
Async
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Software
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $200k–$275k a year, a typical range taken from 596 lead-level software roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around Bulgaria, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Bulgaria, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
Our mission is to enable everyone to build wealth
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. 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
Staff Backend Engineers shape technical direction across teams while remaining close to the systems and code. You will take on problems whose consequences extend beyond one service or delivery cycle.
This is not a people-management role. Its leverage comes from technical judgement, credible execution and the ability to help other engineers make better decisions.
What you’ll do
Own high-consequence backend problems that span services, teams or product domains.
Establish clear system boundaries and architectural direction without creating unnecessary central control.
Lead technical decisions by making constraints, alternatives, risks and trade-offs explicit.
Improve performance, resilience, data integrity, operability and failure handling across production systems.
Resolve recurring structural problems rather than treating symptoms team by team.
Remain hands-on where implementation, diagnosis or prototyping is the fastest way to create clarity.
Mentor senior engineers, raise review quality and make strong engineering judgement easier to reproduce across teams.
Partner with engineering and product leaders on sequencing, risk and long-term technical investment.
What you need to have
Evidence of technical impact across multiple teams or a substantial product domain.
Deep ownership of distributed backend systems operating at meaningful scale.
Strong judgement in service boundaries, asynchronous communication, data ownership, consistency and failure modes.
Deep knowledge of relational databases, transactions, concurrency and high-performance design.
A track record of improving reliability, scalability, observability or developer effectiveness through durable mechanisms.
The ability to influence technical direction through evidence, clarity and trusted execution rather than title.
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Trading 212, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (Async).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 1d ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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