Senior Software Engineer Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Compensation: £75,000 - £107,000 / year
Senior Software Engineer
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. 5 million registered users, and we offer a range of products such as the Freetrade Pension, stocks and shares ISA, and UK Treasury bills.
We run a cloud-first environment and make use of many Google Cloud Platform tools such as Firestore, Google Kubernetes Engine, PubSub and Cloud SQL to build a reliable and performant platform with services implemented using Typescript. If you enjoy broadening your technical skills, building a new product, and working in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and innovation, then this is the job for you! We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in our engineering team. Our team would suit someone who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and enjoys building innovative solutions.
Lead the end-to-end process for development projects and new features from design → development → post-production including having an aptitude for software validation.
Set the standards for code reviews across the business and general software engineering best practices.
Follow and continually improve upon our coding documentation and company development standards.
Be an excellent judge of future talent for Freetrade helping us achieve our bold expansion objectives by taking part in (and sometimes leading) technical interviews ensuring a consistent bar is met.
Constantly assess the development landscape looking for opportunities to increase efficiencies across the engineering team.
Invites participation and devolves responsibility for software design, constructively working to level up the capability of other engineers in your squad.
Set high standards for your squad in terms of software quality and delivery performance. Our benefits package and ways of working are designed to attract and retain the most talented people who are dedicated to making an impact at Freetrade.
Office first culture - we have beautiful office spaces in central London and Budapest where four days a week you collaborate with colleagues in person, one of our core behaviours is that we’re a team that works better together.
Competitive salary – carefully benchmarked.
Holidays – 25 days plus UK public holidays. Your birthday off, plus one extra day for every year at Freetrade.
Enhanced pension – We’ll match your contributions up to 5%.
Group Life Insurance – Protect your loved ones with coverage at 5x your salary, ensuring financial security in any circumstance.
Private Health Insurance - Which includes access to high quality medical care, mental health support, dental and vision plans, Wellness programs and preventative care initiatives are also provided to ensure the wellbeing of your entire family.
Income Protection Cover – Safeguard your income with comprehensive coverage, ensuring financial stability in the event of illness or injury.
Enhanced parental leave – Time off when it matters most.
Flexibility for those who need it – We’re office-first, but life happens. Learning & Development – We fund industry qualifications so you can grow as a financial services professional.
Cycle to Work scheme – Get a high quality bike and gear through our salary sacrifice scheme, spreading the cost with tax free monthly installments.
Paid Sick Leave – Receive 10 days of fully paid sick leave each calendar year.
Following the close of the deal to become part of IG Group, you can expect that our benefits package will further improve to align with the benefits on offer.
Initial interview – A chat with one of our Talent Specialists.
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