Trade Republic is hiring a

Senior Data Platform Engineer (SRE) (f/d/m)

Chicago, United States

Please note that this position is based in Berlin, Germany - relocation support is provided if required. 

LIGHTHOUSE FOR TALENT 

 

At Trade Republic, we are on a mission to empower everyone to create wealth with easy, safe and free access to the financial system. With over four million customers we are the largest savings platforms in Europe, with users holding over €35 billion on our platform.

 

We are seen as the go-to-destination for top talent from across the globe. Everyday we strive to make Trade Republic a great environment to do the best work of your life, surrounded by exceptional, caring and passionate colleagues. In addition to learning and growing with a world-class team, you will build a destination for millions of people across Europe to create wealth.



ABOUT THE TEAM

 

To support Trade Republic's mission, we —the Data Platform — standardize data movements across systems and promote informed decision-making by creating self-service products. 

We design, build and operate tools and platforms offerings in various domains such as orchestration and execution of data pipelines, database replications (CDC), MLOps and stream processing. By joining the team Data Platform team, you will have a great chance to create an impact, contribute to the success of the organisation. 

As a Senior Engineer, you'll elevate our standards for delivering high quality products and outcomes. You will help in shaping technical roadmaps, scoping projects, overcoming challenges, and advocating for best practices within the team.



WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

  • Design  data-intensive systems collaboratively with your team.
  • Develop services that empower your team and others to seamlessly handle large-scale data ingestion, processing, storage.
  • Build resilient systems at scale. We process millions of events daily to inform our decision-making.
  • Take ownership of the services and products, covering the entire lifecycle from ideation to research, implementation, and operation.
  • Collaborate with colleagues across functions, supporting and educating them in data engineering. Discuss. Disagree. Integrate your ideas to the product, take ownership and build for the future.
  • Empower your colleagues by providing continuous constructive feedback and mentorship.

 

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • You have a background in Software/System Engineering and built production grade data-intensive systems. 
  • You're proficient in system design, can reason about scaling strategies together trade-off such as availability vs consistency, latency vs throughput.
  • You love solving challenging problems. We value your ability to tackle complex engineering issues over specific tools, language, or framework knowledge. 
  • Your experience spans a variety of tools and data processing paradigms, including transactional data, event streams, and batch processing.
  • You enjoy hands-on work with infrastructure. Our services are deployed across distributed systems in the cloud, and we manage our infrastructure using code. 
  • You have exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
  • You're a self-starter who thrives under a high level of autonomy.
  • You’re eager to teach, learn and grow together with your team, you promote knowledge sharing.



WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY NOW 

 

At Trade Republic you will get to do the best work of your career. We are a destination for people who are exceptional at what they do. Every day, we strive to build a world-class team and provide the space for people to do their best. We have a relentless ambition of raising the bar and expect the best from ourselves. Through our dedicated people-first management approach and transparent career paths, you will have the opportunity to develop and grow your career like never before. And because you are surrounded by a diverse team of high performers, you will be learning every day.

You will play an important role in fixing one of the largest challenges we face - closing the pension gap and democratizing wealth. Trade Republic is a place where your job, your career and your passions intersect. If this gets you fired up, just like it does for all of us at Trade Republic, then reach out!

Trade Republic embraces diversity and strives for equal opportunity for everyone. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, characteristics, perspectives and skills. We encourage applicants of diverse gender, age, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, disability status and parental status to apply to our roles, or those from other intersecting minority groups not listed. The more diverse and inclusive we are as a team, the greater our work will be. If we can support you on DEI related questions during the interview process, please reach out to [email protected].

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