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Trade Republic is seeking a Kubernetes Senior Engineer to own and operate the infrastructure that allows engineers to deploy and scale services with confidence. You will contribute to a hub-and-spoke platform, manage multi-region clusters, and ensure reliability, security, and compliance across the fleet. You will drive automation to make operations self-healing, define resource policies and workload isolation, and collaborate with product teams on architectural decisions.

Please note that these positions are based in London, Berlin or Paris - relocation support is provided if required. THE BEST WORK OF YOUR CAREER Trade Republic is the largest savings platform in Europe - we operate in 18 countries, serving million customers who trust us with over €150B in assets. But we're striving for more. We have a bold mission to empower everyone to build wealth with easy, safe, and free access to financial systems. You will have the opportunity to grow your career by collaborating with a team of outstanding talents and state of the art technology to build a lasting, positive future for millions. ABOUT PLATFORM ENGINEERING Platform Engineering is the backbone of Trade Republic's engineering velocity. Our mission is to build scalable platforms for a Europe scale bank - serving internal engineers, and building in house control planes for managing the bank's infrastructure. We're a 50 person Platform team focused on one thing: enabling product engineers to move fast and operate autonomously by default. We build self service platforms, golden paths, and opinionated tooling so that over 400 engineers can ship with confidence. From Kubernetes fleet management and CI/CD to an internal Developer Hub built on Backstage, our work underpins every trade, savings plan, and card payment that flows through the platform. THE KUBERNETES PLATFORM JOURNEY Trade Republic runs a growing fleet of Kubernetes clusters across multiple AWS accounts and environments, underpinning every service that millions of customers depend on. Managing that fleet at the pace the business demands - with the reliability and compliance bar a regulated financial institution requires - made it clear that treating clusters as manually managed infrastructure was no longer an option. We changed that. We built a hub and spoke fleet management platform - ClusterAPI for cluster lifecycle, Crossplane for the infrastructure control plane, Sveltos for addon orchestration, all driven by GitOps from a single source of truth. A new cluster is now a single resource definition. Addons are versioned packages, deployed automatically to every cluster in the fleet. Operational complexity no longer grows with the number of clusters. The foundation is in place. Now we need to take it further: hardening the platform, expanding to multi region, pushing availability targets to meet mission critical service requirements, and making the fleet truly self healing by default. You will lead that next chapter. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING As a Kubernetes Senior Engineer, you will build and operate the infrastructure layer that every engineer at Trade Republic depends on to deploy and scale their services with confidence. Build for availability: Implement and improve the cluster topology and isolation model that gets mission critical services to their availability targets - dedicated clusters per criticality tier, strict failure boundaries between platform and product workloads, and disaster recovery procedures you help test and prove. Work across the networking fabric: Build and maintain the multi account network the fleet runs on - VPC design, private endpoints, and cross account connectivity - and contribute to the path toward cross region and multi cloud. Make sure services communicate reliably and securely wherever they run. Push toward zero touch fleet operations: Build the automation that turns cluster and addon management into self healing workflows, freeing the team from repetitive operational toil so our time goes toward raising the platform's reliability and capabilities rather than keeping it running. Strengthen the compute contract with product teams: Implement the resource policies, cluster profiles, and workload isolation boundaries that define how workloads run on the platform, and build the guardrails that prevent noisy neighbours to compromise resiliency. Own what you build end to end: Participate in the on call rotation, taking operational ownership of the systems you build and run. Contribute to the platform's direction: Bring strong technical input to the Kubernetes platform's evolution, take features from kickoff to delivery, and weigh infrastructure decisions against reliability, compliance, and cost. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, or a related SRE/systems discipline. Deep, hands on Kubernetes expertise: cluster architecture, scaling, security, and HA design in production environments. Strong networking fundamentals: CNI, ingress, DNS, service mesh, and cross region/cross cloud connectivity. Experience operating multi region and/or multi cloud environments in production. Experience automating the cluster lifecycle - provisioning, upgrades, policy, and governance - with self service enablement for developers. Solid backend engineering background - Go is preferred but any strong language is welcome. A pragmatic approach to applying infrastructure best practices in a way engineering teams actually adopt. Ability to contribute to architectural decisions and clearly communicate trade offs. The ability to work in a flexible hybrid setup, with 2-3 days a week in the office. WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY NOW Our culture rewards ownership, excellence, and high energy. We care deeply about outcomes and hold each other accountable - we're here to win and fix one of the largest challenges Europeans face - closing the pension gap and democratising wealth. If this gets you fired up, reach out! We believe it's our team's varied identities and backgrounds that make us sharper and stronger. We're committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected and has equal opportunity to thrive in their careers. For any questions on DEI during the interview process, reach out to your recruitment partner.

About Vercel: Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company. We free people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade, Vercel has shaped how the web is built. As the team behind Next.js, v0, and AI SDK, we create products that help builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. Now, software is entering a new era, and the next generation of products will not just be used by people. They will be built, extended, and operated by agents. We are building the platform for that future, trusted by companies like OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide. Whether you're building our products, supporting our customers, growing our community, or shaping our story, you'll help define what comes next. About the role: We are looking for a Forward-Deployed Engineerto join our Professional Services team. This is not a traditional consulting role-you will embed directly with our most strategic enterprise customers to drive transformational outcomes across frontend modernization, platform migrations, and AI adoption. In this role, you will lead complex Next.js migrations, architect high-performance applications, and build production AI solutions-all within customer environments. You'll work hands on-keyboard alongside customer teams, whether you're migrating a legacy React application to App Router, conducting a deep dive code audit, or deploying production agents using Vercel's AI SDK. You will be equally comfortable leading a technical discovery session with engineering leadership as you are refactoring a complex rendering strategy or optimizing an agentic workflow. Our Forward Deployed Engineers operate with high agency and autonomy. You'll navigate ambiguous enterprise environments, assess technical debt, design migration strategies, and deliver measurable business value-all while building long term relationships that expand our partnership with each customer. You will report to the Director of Professional Services and will be remote first with significant travel (%) to customer sites for embedded engagements. What you will do: Lead complex frontend migrations-modernizing legacy React, Vue, or other frameworks to Next.js, including Pages to App Router transitions, incremental adoption strategies, and large-scale codebase transformations. Conduct technical assessments and code audits, analyzing customer codebases for performance bottlenecks, architectural anti patterns, and optimization opportunities-delivering actionable roadmaps that drive measurable improvements. Architect and implement high performance Next.js applications, leveraging App Router, Server Components, streaming, ISR, edge functions, and advanced rendering strategies to meet enterprise scale and performance requirements. Optimize Core Web Vitals and application performance, using tools like Vercel Speed Insights to diagnose issues and implement fixes that improve SEO, conversion rates, and user experience. Build production AI solutionsusing Vercel's AI SDK and AI Cloud-including conversational interfaces, production agents, MCP servers, and agentic workflows that transform customer operations. Embed with strategic customersto build production applications-working within their systems, understanding their constraints, and shipping TypeScript code that goes live. Drive enablement and knowledge transferthrough workshops, pair programming, and documentation-ensuring customer teams can extend and maintain solutions independently. Navigate complex enterprise environmentsby building relationships with stakeholders across engineering, product, and executive teams-translating technical capabilities into business outcomes. Participate in pre sales activitiesby providing technical expertise during discovery calls, scoping sessions, and proposal development for migrations, audits, and AI transformation engagements. Contribute to our service evolutionby identifying repeatable patterns, building reusable components, and sharing implementation insights back to Product and Engineering teams. About you: 5+ years of experiencein software engineering with at least 2 years in a customer facing technical role (consulting, solutions engineering, forward deployed engineering, or technical founder experience). Expert level TypeScript skills-this is your primary language. You write production TypeScript daily and have strong opinions on type safety, patterns, and tooling. Deep expertise in Next.js, with a proven track record of architecting and delivering complex applications using App Router, Server Components, server side rendering (SSR), static generation (SSG), incremental static regeneration (ISR), and edge functions. Demonstrated experience leading frontend migrations-you've modernized legacy applications to Next.js, navigated incremental adoption strategies, and understand the challenges of migrating large codebases in production environments. Mastery of Reactand its ecosystem, including advanced state management, performance optimization, and modern patterns like streaming, suspense, and concurrent features. Production experience with LLMs and AI applications, including prompt engineering, agent development, and tool use patterns. Familiarity with Vercel's AI SDK is strongly preferred. High agency with comfort in ambiguity-you thrive when given a problem to solve rather than a task to complete, and you can navigate complex organizations to drive outcomes. Exceptional communication skillswith the ability to conduct technical discovery, present to executives, mentor engineers, and build lasting customer relationships-all with a low ego, collaborative approach. Business acumento understand customer objectives, translate technical capabilities into ROI, and identify expansion opportunities throughout engagement lifecycles. Willingness to travel %to customer sites for embedded work and relationship building. Bonus if you: Have led large scale migrations from legacy frameworks (Create React App, Gatsby, custom webpack setups) to Next.js in enterprise environments. Have expertise in performance optimization and Core Web Vitals, with experience diagnosing and fixing LCP, CLS, and INP issues at scale. Have experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP), building MCP servers, or implementing complex tool use patterns in production AI applications. Have led enterprise AI transformation initiatives, including building production agents that automated manual processes or replaced legacy systems. Have worked with micro frontends, module federation, or multi team frontend architectures. Have contributed to the Next.js, React, or AI SDK open source projects, or maintain popular related libraries. Have experience with enterprise deployment patterns including security reviews, compliance requirements, and multi region architectures. Have a background in financial services, healthcare, retail/e commerce, or media-industries with complex frontend ecosystems and growing AI adoption. Have spoken at conferences or published thought leadership on frontend architecture, migrations, or AI applications. Benefits: Great compensation package and stock options. Inclusive Healthcare Package. Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills. Flexible Time Off - Flexible vacation policy with a recommended 4 weeks per year, and paid holidays. Remote Friendly - Work with teammates from different time zones across the globe. We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.

Trade Republic is seeking a Platform Engineer to own the Kubernetes-based control planes that power our Europe-wide infrastructure. You'll design and operate self-service, multi cluster pipelines, and build the go-based components that run at scale across domains. You'll work in a hybrid setting (2-3 days in the office) with relocation support to London, Berlin or Paris, collaborating with product engineers to improve reliability, performance and cost, while shaping the platform roadmap.

Please note that these positions are based in London, Berlin or Paris - relocation support is provided if required. THE BEST WORK OF YOUR CAREER Trade Republic is the largest savings platform in Europe - we operate in 18 countries, serving million customers who trust us with over €150B in assets. But we're striving for more. We have a bold mission to empower everyone to build wealth with easy, safe, and free access to financial systems. You will have the opportunity to grow your career by collaborating with a team of outstanding talents and state of the art technology to build a lasting, positive future for millions. ABOUT PLATFORM ENGINEERING Platform Engineering is the backbone of Trade Republic's engineering velocity. Our mission is to build scalable platforms for a Europe-scale bank - serving internal engineers, and building in house control planes for managing the bank's infrastructure. We're a 50 person Platform team focused on one thing: enabling product engineers to move fast and operate autonomously by default. We build self service platforms, golden paths, and opinionated tooling so that over 400 engineers can ship with confidence. From Kubernetes fleet management and CI/CD to an internal Developer Hub built on Backstage, our work underpins every trade, savings plan, and card payment that flows through the platform. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING Kafka is becoming the central nervous system of Trade Republic - connecting trading, banking, financial crime detection, and more in real time. Today, scaling our Kafka infrastructure to match the pace of the business means too much manual work, too much operational toil, and not enough time building the platform it could be. We are changing that - treating Kafka clusters as fungible shards of a larger resource pool, with a Temporal backed control plane, Backstage integrated self service, and transparent multi cluster routing that gives product engineers a zero config experience. Run Kafka at scale: Own the reliability and uptime of our Kafka fleet - design for high availability across domains and shards, engineer for resilience, and ensure near zero downtime across maintenance, upgrades, and failure scenarios. Build the streaming platform: Design and implement the control plane that makes the multi cluster platform real - cluster lifecycle automation, topic and ACL provisioning, cross shard replication, and the self service interfaces that let product engineers onboard without understanding the infrastructure underneath. Make streaming best practices the default: Define standards for how product engineers produce and consume - topic design, schema management, consumer group patterns, and reliability practices - and embed them into the platform so the right thing is always the easiest thing. Own the platform end to end: Participate in the on call rotation, ensuring full ownership of the systems you build and operate. Own the direction: Shape the roadmap, drive cross team initiatives, and align the streaming platform with broader engineering and business goals. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR 5+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering, or a related SRE/systems discipline. Production Kubernetes at the control plane level - CRDs, the reconciliation model, and writing/operating controllers or operators - with hands on Cluster API (CAPA/CAPI) managing clusters as versioned resources, not hand maintained infrastructure. Zero downtime migration of live production clusters onto a managed GitOps lifecycle - not just greenfield provisioning. Much of the near term work is onboarding the existing fleet safely. Building an infrastructure control plane with Crossplane (authoring compositions/XRDs) or a comparable reconciler. Terraform expected - but this role is continuous reconciliation, not one shot provisioning. GitOps at fleet scale with Flux (or Argo CD) as the single source of truth, including versioned add on rollout across the fleet with per environment config overrides. Strong AWS networking: VPC/IPAM, private only endpoints, PrivateLink/VPC Endpoint Services, cross account IAM (IRSA), Cilium/CNI internals, and DNS at scale. Backend engineering in Go - you'll write and operate custom control plane components, not just YAML and Helm. Own it in production: on call for what you build, making it observable (CAPI/Flux state metrics, SLOs, alerts), and weighing reliability, compliance, and cost. The ability to work in a flexible hybrid setup, with 2 3 days a week in the office. WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY NOW Our culture rewards ownership, excellence, and high energy. We care deeply about outcomes and hold each other accountable - we're here to win and fix one of the largest challenges Europeans face - closing the pension gap and democratising wealth. If this gets you fired up, reach out! We believe it's our team's varied identities and backgrounds that make us sharper and stronger. We're committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected and has equal opportunity to thrive in their careers. For any questions on DEI during the interview process, reach out to your recruitment partner.

Please note that these positions are based in London, Berlin, or Paris - relocation support is provided if required. THE BEST WORK OF YOUR CAREER Trade Republic is the largest savings platform in Europe - we operate in 18 countries, serving million customers who trust us with over €150B in assets. But we're striving for more. We have a bold mission to empower everyone to build wealth with easy, safe, and free access to financial systems. You will have the opportunity to grow your career by collaborating with a team of outstanding talents and state of the art technology to build a lasting, positive future for millions. ABOUT PLATFORM ENGINEERING Platform Engineering is the backbone of Trade Republic's engineering velocity. Our mission is to build scalable platforms for a Europe-scale bank - serving internal engineers, and building in-house control planes for managing the bank's infrastructure. We're a 50-person Platform team focused on one thing: enabling product engineers to move fast and operate autonomously by default. We build self-service platforms, golden paths, and opinionated tooling so that over 300 engineers can ship with confidence. From Kubernetes fleet management and CI/CD to an internal Developer Hub built on Backstage, our work underpins every trade, savings plan, and card payment that flows through the platform. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING Our database platform is foundational to how Trade Republic works - every trade, savings plan, and card payment touches it. As Database Platform Tech Lead, you will set the direction, own the outcomes, and guide the team building the platform layer that makes database operations self-service, automated, and reliable at scale. Set the database reliability standard: Architect the failover mechanisms, replication topology, and recovery strategies that meet our availability targets - and own the engineering roadmap that closes the gap between where we are and the number of 9s the business requires. Drive toward zero-touch operations: Define what fully automated database operations look like - provisioning and scaling to zero-downtime migrations - and lead the platform work that gets us there. Own the database technology strategy: Define which database technology fits which problem - set the criteria for adoption, govern the portfolio, and ensure every database choice is intentional and operated with the same level of rigour. Define the database contract with product teams: Set the standards for how product engineers interact with databases - schema governance, migration patterns, connection pooling, query performance - and build the tooling that makes it effortless to get right. Own the platform end to end: Set the operational bar - define on-call practices and incident response standards for database failures, and hold the team to them. Own the direction and drive it forward: Define the long-term database platform strategy, drive cross-team initiatives from kickoff to delivery, and align database infrastructure decisions with broader engineering, compliance, and cost goals. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR 5+ years of experience in database engineering, platform engineering, or a related systems discipline, with a track record of technical leadership. Deep, hands on PostgreSQL expertise: strong opinions on replication, sharding, backup strategies, upgrades, and security. Hands on experience with Postgres automation and lifecycle tooling is required. Familiarity with ClickHouse and Cassandra/Scylla in production environments. Solid backend engineering background - Go is preferred but any strong language is welcome; familiarity with Kotlin/JVM is a plus as you'll work directly with product teams who rely on it. A track record of turning database best practices into opinionated standards that engineering teams actually adopt. Cloud native in your DNA: hands on with Kubernetes and IaC tooling, running production workloads on AWS or equivalent. Proven ability to define technical strategy, drive cross team initiatives end-to-end, and hold yourself and others accountable to outcomes. Ability to contribute to architectural decisions and clearly communicate trade offs to both engineers and leadership. The ability to work in a flexible hybrid setup, with 2 3 days a week in the office. WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY NOW Our culture rewards ownership, excellence, and high energy. We care deeply about outcomes and hold each other accountable - we're here to win and fix one of the largest challenges Europeans face - closing the pension gap and democratising wealth. If this gets you fired up, reach out! We believe it's our team's varied identities and backgrounds that make us sharper and stronger. We're committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected and has equal opportunity to thrive in their careers. For any questions on DEI during the interview process, reach out to your recruitment partner.

Trade Republic in London is seeking a Database Platform Tech Lead to set direction, own outcomes, and guide a team building a scalable, self service database platform that underpins every trade, savings plan, and card payment. You will define reliability standards, push for zero touch operations, select database technologies, and build tooling for product teams to ensure robust data infrastructure.