Overview

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Location: London, Hybrid. Department: Engineering. Compensation: £75,000 - £125,000 / year.

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.

2025 is a big year for us. In January, 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.

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to work in a newly formed Platform Team to manage our Google Cloud Platform, provide DevOps capabilities to the rest of the Engineering teams and help develop a FinOps culture in Freetrade.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage our Google Cloud infrastructure, working with the engineering teams to ensure our services are deployed on the most appropriate cloud systems and make recommendations on appropriate technology choices.
• Own and manage our monitoring and diagnostics. You will work with the engineering teams to ensure we have best in class observability, alerting, SLOs and cost attribution for our software stack.
• Own and manage the CI/CD infrastructure for our products.
• Deliver against challenging technical problems, weighing trade-offs to deliver scalable and maintainable solutions quickly.
• Establish and maintain a high bar of best practice on FinOps, Infra as code, PaaS.
• Own and manage dashboards for tracking operational performance metrics of the platform, such as platform cost per user, per transaction, base costs.
• Influences team and engineering roadmaps and strategy
• Writes and maintains documentation on the developer operations and platform spaces.

Qualifications

• A track record with Google Cloud is a bonus but we are open to experience with other cloud providers like AWS and Azure.
• Knowledge of containerisation using Docker and experience managing deployed services in Kubernetes clusters.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and experience of using Terraform or an equivalent.
• Knowledge of any scripting language (Javascript, Python, Ruby etc.) and experience of identifying and exploiting automation opportunities.
• Deep understanding and obsession with the details.
• A love for the world of investments.
• Up to date with technology to influence good practices.
• Experience of running platforms that deliver high performance at scale suitable for B2C products
• Experience of running highly resilient platforms, where reliability and graceful degradation is critical.

Benefits

Freetrade is the place to accelerate your career. 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.

Here’s what’s on offer in 2025:

Hybrid working culture

We’re operating in a hybrid model: 3-days in-office / 2-days from home. We believe great collaboration happens in person and our offices in central London and Budapest are designed to bring people together.

• Office days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
• Work from home days: Wednesday, Friday

This setup helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and keep building a culture where we all do our best work together, including dedicated days for focus work.

Other benefits

Flexibility for those who need it: We have a hybrid working model, but life happens. If you need flexibility, we’ll work with you.

• Values: At Freetrade we live and breathe our values: Honesty, Focus and Grit. Expect to be asked about these in your interview!

Benefits in London

• Competitive salary – carefully benchmarked.
• Bonus Scheme – join us and share in our growth. Bonuses are linked to both company success and your individual impact. First payouts: July 2026
• 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 – Includes access to high quality medical care, mental health support, dental and vision plans, Wellness programs and preventative care initiatives.
• 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. Whether you’re a parent or have care responsibilities, we focus on output and trust you to manage your time.
• Learning & Development – We fund industry qualifications so you can grow as a financial services professional.
• Cycle to Work scheme – Get a high quality bike through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Paid Sick Leave – 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.

Interview Process

• Initial interview – A chat with one of our Talent Specialists.
• Hiring Manager interview – A deep dive into your skills and experience.
• Live Technical Task – Show us how you think and solve problems.
• System Design – We’ll explore how you design systems to handle real-world challenges.
• Executive interview – A conversation with our stakeholders, where we also assess cultural fit.

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Please note we are not accepting agency CVs.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development