# Platform Engineer – Backend & Reliability at Trade Republic

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- **Company:** Trade Republic (https://jobs.trythestack.co/companies/trade-republic)
- **Location:** Germany
- **Work arrangement:** On-site
- **Employment type:** Full-time
- **Experience level:** 5–10 years
- **Visa sponsorship:** Offered, according to the listing
- **Key skills:** Kotlin, Go, Distributed Systems, Reliability Engineering, Load Testing, Chaos Engineering, Capacity Planning, Event-Driven Architecture, Container Orchestration, Incident Response, Observability, Backend Engineering
- **Posted by employer:** 2026-06-22
- **Added to The Stack:** 2026-06-23
- **Status:** May no longer be active (posted more than 60 days ago)
- **Apply:** https://traderepublic.com/en-de/about?jobId=7775140003&gh_jid=7775140003 (the employer's own application page)
- **Human page:** https://jobs.trythestack.co/jobs/platform-engineer-backend-reliability-trade-republic

## 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.

## FAQ

- **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.

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