Junior Software Engineer

at  Freetrade

London
At Freetrade, we believe investing should be accessible to everyone. It’s one of the best ways to grow your savings, but for many, it seems complicated, expensive, and out of reach.
We’re here to change that.
We’re building a team with diverse and unique perspectives to help us on our mission to demystify investing. Our goal is to help our customers achieve better long-term financial outcomes.
In 2024, we’ll be focusing on making our business cash flow profitable. We’ll also be radically improving our product for our core customer base. In the UK, we now have over 1.6 million registered users, and we offer a range of products such as the Freetrade Pension, a stocks and shares ISA, and UK Treasury bills.
This is an exciting opportunity to learn hands-on, tackle real-world challenges, and play an important role in maintaining and optimising backend processes that directly impact the business. By implementing new features and enhancing server-side logic, you’ll contribute to improving product performance, increasing operational efficiency, and driving business growth. Your work will support key business objectives and help build scalable solutions that align with our company’s long-term goals.

You will…

• Assist in the development of high-quality software, working alongside senior engineers to solve technical problems and implement effective solutions.
• Contribute to delivering maintainable and efficient solutions, learning to consider trade-offs in performance, scalability, and timelines.
• Gain an understanding of the core features and KPIs of the product, working with senior team members and the Product Manager to help drive product improvements.
• Learn to navigate on-call environments by supporting high-priority issue resolution, knowing when and how to escalate issues to more senior engineers.

About you:

• You have a strong desire to grow your technical skills, collaborating with your team to improve and gain confidence in solving complex problems.
• You enjoy working in a team setting, taking responsibility for your contributions, and are open to constructive feedback that helps you and the team grow.
• You aim to meet high standards for software quality and are eager to understand best practices from your peers and mentors.
• You are eager to learn about automated testing tools, unit testing, and how to ensure the reliability of your code
• You are curious and proactive in approaching unfamiliar challenges, and you’re willing to learn from more experienced engineers under pressure.
• You pay attention to the finer details of your work, eager to develop a thorough understanding of the code you write.
• You have a keen interest in learning about the investment domain and are excited to apply your engineering skills to this field.
• You stay curious about technology trends and are open to learning and adopting good practices shared by senior engineers.

Benefits & Logistics
The application process consists of a four stage process. You will initially have a phone interview with one of our internal Talent Specialists, followed by a call with the hiring manager, technical interview a cultural and behavioural interview,
We offer a competitive salary plus stock options.
You’ll have a stake in the company you’re building, with stock options benchmarked to US companies.
We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability - we want to hear from you. We’re very open about what we’re working on, and the best places
About Freetrade
Freetrade is an award-winning investing app with over 1 million users. ‍ Our mission is to get everyone investing by making it simpler and more affordable. We bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds, ranging from leading financial services companies to Big Tech to more. Together we are focused on building an open and transparent stockbroker you can trust.
Openness and transparency is in our DNA and applies to all aspects of our company. We encourage an open and inclusive environment and pride ourselves on being candid, curious, focused, humble and gritty.
Our headquarters are based in London and we’re hiring.

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