Senior Platform Engineer

About Freetrade

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 Dev Ops capabilities to the rest of the Engineering teams and help develop a Fin Ops culture in Freetrade.

• 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 Fin Ops, 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.

• 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 (Java script, 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.

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.

Flexibility for those who need it
:
We have a hybrid working model, but life happens. If you need flexibillity, we will consider options where possible.

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 – bonuses are linked to company success and your individual impact. First payouts:
  July 2026.

• Holidays – 25 days plus UK…