Junior Backend Engineer

trading212· Engineering
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📍 BulgariaFullTime

About this role

Our mission is to enable everyone to build wealth

We reinvent how trading and investing work by creating exceptional products people love.

Fostering a culture of excellence and high velocity is the key to our success. Today, we serve over 6 million clients, with more than €40 billion in assets under management — a testament to the scale and trust we've built in just a few years. 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 OpenSearch.

What you’ll do

  • Develop solutions by taking a holistic approach to problem-solving - Work with your team to understand business problems, service architecture, and underlying technologies. You'll be guided to take a holistic approach to problem-solving while learning to consider all aspects of a solution.

  • Engage in forming requirements, design your implementation, code it, test it, deploy and monitor it – Participate in forming requirements, designing implementations, coding, testing, deploying, and monitoring solutions. You'll be supported in taking ownership of your code, ensuring it's well-maintained, and refactoring it when opportunities for improvement arise.

  • Develop for performance, scale and resilience – Learn to develop code that performs well, scales effectively, and is resilient. Understand the importance of minimizing downtime, latency, and data loss, and work towards achieving these goals with support from your team.

  • Work in compact, autonomous teams with short release cycles - Collaborate within compact, autonomous teams with short release cycles. You'll be part of an agile, independent team where you'll learn to balance the right amount of process to maintain velocity without sacrificing structure.

  • Learn from your colleagues and share your knowledge with them - Actively learn from your colleagues and share your knowledge with them. Participate in mutual, honest feedback to help grow individually and as a company.

What you need to have

  • Ongoing or completed CS education.

  • Familiarity with common communication protocols. We expect you to be comfortable with using HTTP & AMQP communication and have the ability to decide when to use one over the other.

  • Prior experience with at least one commonplace web framework, no matter the language. Our system is language-agnostic and we give the engineers the opportunity to choose the specific language based on its appropriateness for the particular task. The microservice architecture allows us to use the newest technologies and we're constantly striving to keep a healthy balance between an up-to-date system and a battle-tested and familiar one.

  • Good understanding of RDBMS concepts. We expect you to know about database indexing and transactions, and you should be able to design basic databases.

What we offer

  • Challenges that will help you grow and realize your potential really fast

  • Opportunity to make a big Impact - you will build innovative services used by millions of investors to build wealth

  • Work with smart, spirited, helpful, high-performing colleagues with a common goal

  • An environment where nothing is set in stone

  • Appreciation for your talent and ideas

  • Generous remuneration package including annual bonuses

  • Excellent social benefits package, including private health insurance, sports card and 25 days of paid vacation per year

  • Delicious treats and a spacious game room

What to expect

  • Coding Task

  • Recruiter conversation

  • Technical Interview

  • Managerial interview

Your recruiter will explain each stage clearly and follow up after every conversation.

Bring your ambition to Europe’s fastest-growing mobile broker!

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the salary disclosed for the Junior Backend Engineer position at trading212?
The salary for this Junior Backend Engineer role at trading212 is not publicly listed. Click "Apply Now" to learn more about the compensation package on their official careers page.
Where is the Junior Backend Engineer position at trading212 located?
This Junior Backend Engineer role at trading212 is based in Bulgaria. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
Is the Junior Backend Engineer role at trading212 full-time or part-time?
This is listed as a FullTime position. It is posted as a Junior Backend Engineer role in the Engineering department at trading212.
Which team or department does the Junior Backend Engineer at trading212 belong to?
This Junior Backend Engineer position is part of the Engineering department at trading212. See the full job description for more information about the team structure and responsibilities.
How do I apply for the Junior Backend Engineer position at trading212?
Click the "Apply Now" button on this page. You will be redirected to trading212's official application portal hosted on ashby where you can submit your application directly.
When was the Junior Backend Engineer job at trading212 posted?
This Junior Backend Engineer position at trading212 was posted on Sep 29, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
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