Senior Software Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Budapest

Reporting To: Laurence Tucker

Description

Budapest, Hungary
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 2025, 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.
We are looking for an exceptional Software Engineer, to join our remote member of our Engineering squad.

Tech stack: NodeJS/Typescript, Google Cloud Platform, Postgresql.

You will...

• Deliver high quality software to predictable timescales and take complex problems and produce multiple alternative solutions, skillfully weighing trade-offs to help their squad make effective medium term technical decisions.
• Delivers against challenging technical problems, skillfully weighing trade-offs to deliver scalable and maintainable solutions quickly.
• Deeply understands their product and its core KPIs, and is a key partner to their Product Manager in driving their product forwards.
• Thrive in an on-call environment and be the escalation point for high priority issues with the ability to triage and escalate when necessary.

About you:

• Invites participation and devolves responsibility for software design, constructively working to level-up the capability of other engineers in your squad.
• Sets high standards for your squad in terms of software quality and delivery performance. You speak candidly when standards are not met and work with your team to continually raise the bar.
• Have the skills to competently work on complex and unknown problems under pressure.
• Deep understanding and obsession with the details.
• A love for the world of investments.
• Up to date with technology to influence good practices.

Logistics and Benefits

The application process consists of a 4 stage process. You will initially have a quick interview with one of our internal Talent Specialists and after that meeting the Hiring Manager for the role.  Followed by a Live Coding and System Design Interview. Concluding with an Executive Interview with the CEO, where we also assess your cultural fit.

We offer a competitive salary, cafeteria benefits, and 100% sickness coverage. Additionally, we’re excited to announce that a discretionary bonus scheme and private medical insurance will soon be introduced in Hungary! 
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