Platform Engineer – Backend & Reliability at Trade Republic

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Updated 2026-11-05, from our data and official sources.

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About the role

Responsibilities:
- Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency, fault-tolerant backend services and platform components in Kotlin.
- Treat reliability as a first-class concern: define SLOs, model failure modes, and apply resilience patterns (circuit breakers, bulkheads, graceful degradation, retries) in code.
- Lead load, stress, and chaos testing campaigns and convert findings into architectural and operational improvements.
- Set and enforce backend engineering standards for service design, error handling, resiliency, and safe deployments.
- Drive capacity planning and performance engineering work to keep systems performant ahead of demand.
- Own incident response, run post-mortems, and ensure corrective actions close systemic gaps.
- Make observability first-class with structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing to support debugging and reliability.

Requirements:
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency in Kotlin (primary) and experience with Go is a plus.
- Demonstrated expertise in reliability engineering: SLOs, chaos engineering, load testing, and capacity planning.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, container orchestration, and production observability tools and practices.
- Comfortable owning production services, leading incidents, and improving testing, deployment, and resilience practices.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills to raise engineering standards across teams.

Responsibilities

Design and implement high-throughput, fault-tolerant backend services and platform components using Kotlin. Drive system reliability through SLOs, chaos testing, and the establishment of backend engineering standards.

Requirements

Requires 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with proficiency in Go and Kotlin. Must have a proven track record of building resilient distributed systems and managing production infrastructure at scale.

Key skills

• Kotlin — in 251 other listings on The Stack
• Go — in 230 other listings on The Stack
• Distributed Systems — in 342 other listings on The Stack
• Reliability Engineering — in 10 other listings on The Stack
• Load Testing — in 15 other listings on The Stack
• Chaos Engineering — in 8 other listings on The Stack
• Capacity Planning — in 18 other listings on The Stack
• Event-Driven Architecture — in 60 other listings on The Stack
• Container Orchestration
• Incident Response
• Observability
• Backend Engineering

On The Stack (as of 2026-11-05)

• Trade Republic has 3 other listings on The Stack, 1 of them marked as offering visa sponsorship.
• 166 visa-sponsored jobs in Germany on The Stack, posted in the last 60 days.
• 68 visa-sponsored backend engineer jobs in Europe on The Stack, posted in the last 60 days.

Frequently asked questions about Trade Republic

Is this Platform Engineer – Backend & Reliability role still open?

It was posted on 2026-06-22. Listings more than 30 days old may no longer be active, so check Trade Republic's site before applying.

Does Trade Republic offer visa sponsorship?

This listing is marked as offering visa sponsorship. Eligibility rules are set by the employer, so check the details on Trade Republic's site.

Where is this role located?

The listing gives the location as Germany. It is marked on-site.

What skills does this role ask for?

The listing names: Kotlin, Go, Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, Load Testing, Chaos Engineering, Capacity Planning, Event-Driven Architecture, Container Orchestration, Incident Response, Observability, Backend Engineering.