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Principal Backend Engineer

· Job Posted February 21, 2026
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Our mission is to enable everyone to build wealth. We reinvent how trading and investing work by creating exceptional products people love. Trading 212 is built by highly driven people who strive for excellence and value freedom. Today, we serve over 4.5 million clients, with more than €30 billion in assets under management - a testament to the scale and trust we’ve built in just a few years. We are looking for experienced and driven principal software engineers to help us scale and innovate.

Job Responsibility

  • Lead the technical development of an entire business domain
  • Engage in forming requirements, design the architecture, and lead the entire software development life cycle
  • Lead a compact, autonomous, cross-functional team with short release cycles
  • Develop solutions by taking a holistic approach to problem-solving
  • Develop for performance, scale and resilience
  • Take initiative to identify areas of product improvement

Requirements

  • Experience in leading the development and subsequent release of a complex/high-demand client-facing product
  • Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software engineers towards delivering high-quality software together with them
  • Experience with developing services in a microservice architecture
  • Advanced knowledge of at least two programming languages
  • Deep understanding of RDBMS, messaging brokers and in-memory data storages

What we offer

  • 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
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