About the job
Please note that these positions are based in London, Berlin, or Paris — relocation support is provided if required.
UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL WITH US
Trade Republic is Europe's leading savings platform, operating in 18 countries and serving over 10 million customers who trust us with more than €150 billion in assets. Our ambitious mission is to empower individuals to build wealth through easy, safe, and free access to financial systems. Join us to advance your career while collaborating with exceptional talents and cutting-edge technology to shape a prosperous future for millions.
ABOUT PLATFORM ENGINEERING
Platform Engineering serves as the backbone of Trade Republic's engineering velocity. Our objective is to construct scalable platforms for a pan-European bank, supporting internal engineers and developing proprietary control mechanisms for managing the bank's infrastructure. Our approximately 50-member Platform team is dedicated to one goal: enabling product engineers to operate swiftly and autonomously.
We create self-service platforms, golden paths, and tailored tooling that empower over 400 engineers to deploy code confidently. Our initiatives encompass Kubernetes fleet management, CI/CD processes, and an internal Developer Hub based on Backstage, underpinning every trade, savings plan, and card payment processed through our platform.
JOIN US ON THE OBSERVABILITY JOURNEY
In 2023, we took a significant step forward by replacing our observability-as-a-service provider with a fully self-hosted observability stack, granting us complete control over costs, data residency, and the developer experience surrounding telemetry. Our technology stack includes the complete LGTM suite — Grafana, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo — complemented by VictoriaMetrics, self-hosted Sentry, Grafana Alloy as our telemetry collector, and OpenTelemetry as the instrumentation standard. We utilize Pyrra for SLO tracking and are developing a unified service health dashboard powered by error budgets and burn-rate alerts.
Telemetry is fundamental to our operations at scale, processing over 100 million samples, supporting 400+ services, and capturing end-to-end traces from clients through services to system dependencies. Every trade and card payment hinges on our capability to monitor, measure, and respond to events in production. We have validated our architecture's effectiveness, and now we are assembling a dedicated in-house observability team to enhance and solidify the platform.

