Platform Engineer – Backend & Reliability
Core
Build and own Trade Republic's critical backend systems for processing trades, payments, and savings plans, ensuring high reliability and scalability for a Europe-scale bank.
Role type
Senior IC backend reliability engineer
Builds
High-throughput, low-latency backend services and platform components for a financial platform
Domain
Fintech / Banking / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, Kotlin, distributed systems design, load testing, capacity planning, incident response, observability, container orchestration
Preferred skills
Event-driven architectures, chaos engineering, SLO definition, engineering standards creation
Technologies
Go, Kotlin, container orchestration
Responsibilities
Design and implement high-throughput backend services in Kotlin; define and drive SLOs and implement resilience patterns; lead load and chaos testing; set and enforce backend engineering standards; drive scale and capacity engineering; lead incident response and post-mortems; implement observability standards
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC