About Freetrade

Freetrade’s mission is to become the default place to invest. Investing has been too complicated and expensive for too long, keeping millions from making the most of their savings.

We’re changing that.

We’re building our team and looking for people who are excited to reshape how our customers invest and grow their wealth. If you’re driven by solving complex problems and building innovative products, you’ll fit right in.

2026 is a big year for us. Last year, we announced a game changing deal to become part of the IG Group. We’ll continue to operate as an independent business while gaining access to the resources and support of an established leader in the space.

This year, we’re accelerating our roadmap and taking our products to the next level. We’re building new features like mutual funds, bonds, and family investment tools. We’re also exploring how we can leverage AI to deliver an even better experience for our customers.

Why Join Our Engineering Team?

Freetrade Engineers play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining a robust, scalable platform used by thousands daily. We tackle big technical challenges, drive innovation, and build solutions that make a real impact.

Here, your code doesn’t just run - it powers the decisions of investors across the UK.

About the role

As part of our dedicated mobile engineering team, you will work on implementing new features. In collaboration with design, product and QE teams you will craft user experiences that will delight our customers.

You will also help guide priorities around platform issues, technical debt, patterns, and architecture, ensuring we deliver a high-quality app and an excellent developer experience.

We have recently rebranded key parts of the app, creating a new design system from scratch built with Swift UI, and have started transitioning to a modern, unified GraphQL API using Apollo.

What you’ll do

• Lead the design and delivery of new features, alongside improving and maintaining the Freetrade iOS app, ensuring high performance, quality, security and robustness.
• Own features end to end, collaborating with backend, design, product and QE to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Set and hold a high bar for code quality through hands-on development, code reviews and effective testing.
• Resolve complex issues, address bottlenecks and reduce technical debt.
• Drive improvements in engineering standards and practices.
• Mentor and support junior engineers on design, implementation and best practices.
• Participate in a support rota to understand and resolve customer issues, including direct communication where needed.

About you

• Typically 6+ years of experience building production-grade mobile applications.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to lead technical decisions and deliver complex features.
• Deep understanding of iOS architecture and common patterns
• Strong experience with Swift, DI frameworks, and SwiftUI.
• Good understanding of GraphQL and integrating with backend services.
• Experience with Combine, Swift Concurrency or RxSwift.
• Familiarity with git and collaborative development practices.
• Understanding of CI and build tooling such as CircleCI.
• Experience mentoring and growing more junior engineers.