Senior Platform Engineer in City of London

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.

You will...

• 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, ensuring 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.
• Influence team and engineering roadmaps and strategy.
• Write and maintain documentation on the developer operations and platform spaces.

About you:

• 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 & Logistics

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: 3-days in-office / 2-days from home.
• Flexibility for those who need it.

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.
• 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 – 5x your salary coverage.
• Private Health Insurance – Includes access to medical care, mental health support, dental and vision plans, Wellness programs and preventative care.
• Income Protection Cover – Ensure financial stability in the event of illness or injury.
• Enhanced parental leave – Time off when it matters most.
• Learning & Development – We fund industry qualifications for your growth.
• Cycle to Work scheme – Buy a bike through salary sacrifice.
• Paid Sick Leave – 10 days of fully paid sick leave per 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 about cultural fit.

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.