At Freetrade, we believe investing should be open to everyone. It’s one of the best ways to grow your savings, but for a lot of people, investing seems complicated, expensive and remote. We want to change all that.
We're a technology company that brings simple, free stock investing to everyone. We’ve built a beautiful investing app to trade in real shares, with zero commissions or fees in a fluid, mobile-first experience. And behind the app, we’re building all the technology and infrastructure from the ground up.
With over £10m in funding so far and as one of the most overfunded companies ever on Crowdcube, we are now expanding our
team further and are poised to disrupt the £1.2 trillion UK retail investment market. And that's just the start.
Our team is growing fast, and now we're looking for a mid-level Software Engineer to join us.
About you:
- We hire in a language-agnostic way, so whatever your skill set we're happy to hear from you - you can check out our current stack here.
- You’re team-oriented, keen to share your knowledge and open to giving (and receiving) continuous feedback You build clean, performant, tested and maintainable code
- You’re product-minded and understand the tradeoffs between quality and delivering fast
- You’re a strong communicator and thrive working cross-functionally with disciplines from operations to design and growth to finance
- You love to learn new skills and want to develop your existing ones to maximise your potential
- You care about impact, love a challenge, and take ownership of your work
What you'll do in your first twelve months at Freetrade:
- Own the design and development of multiple features using your strong understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, functional design, and so on)
- Develop an understanding of our stack
- Write well-tested software Support operational excellence
About our stack:We use serverless technologies such as Firebase, Cloud Composer, and Stackdriver, to build a reliable and performant platform with a small team. We use the real-time database, cloud functions and other features like pub/sub to provide a frictionless investment platform. We’re language-agnostic, as we’re focused on finding amazing software engineers who are passionate about what they do.
You can read about our engineering interview process
here. Our work culture prioritises speed, care and effectiveness and you’ll have the freedom to pursue your own ideas and solutions
Benefits Summary:
A salary of £45k to £55k pa.
You’ll have a stake in the company you’re building, with stock options benchmarked to US companies (not Europe), so your equity will be truly meaningful.
We also support you with a range of extra perks, including top-end health and life insurance for you and the family, up to 5% pension contribution which we’ll match, enhanced parental leave, opportunities for learning and development, MacBook Pro, snazzy headphones... whatever tools you need.
Our office is in a beautiful co-working space,
Second Home in Spitalfields, which has an abundance of health, wellness and cultural events happening every day - and buzzy Brick Lane is just a street away.
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 to learn more are our buzzing
community forum and our
blog.