Technology Leader - Data Platform (f/d/m)

Please note that this position is based in Berlin, Germany - relocation support is provided if required. 

LIGHTHOUSE FOR TALENT 

At Trade Republic, we are on a mission to empower everyone to create wealth with easy, safe and free access to the financial system. With over four million customers we are the largest savings platforms in Europe, with users holding over €35 billion on our platform.

We are seen as the go-to-destination for top talent from across the globe. Everyday we strive to make Trade Republic a great environment to do the best work of your life, surrounded by exceptional, caring and passionate colleagues. In addition to learning and growing with a world-class team, you will build a destination for millions of people across Europe to create wealth.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Data Platform department mission at Trade Republic is to build a scalable, secure, and cost-efficient data platform by providing self-service products that empower Trade Republic teams to innovate, make data-driven decisions, and achieve full data ownership. By fostering a world-class team of professionals, we ensure continuous improvement and operational excellence, setting new standards in data-driven finance. For example, we offer the tools that each data producer can use to ingest their data into our data lake, develop data pipelines, schedule and orchestrate workloads, build dashboards, and discover data.

We develop products primarily with Python and SQL, leveraging AWS services extensively. We manage infrastructure using Terraform, keeping everything as code, and rely on GitHub actions for providing a secure and efficient development environment. Kafka serves as our core messaging layer, we use Spark and Flink for critical applications. We build and maintain our observability systems on LGTM stack.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Define and lead the department’s tech vision, aligning it with the product strategy and setting the standard for technical excellence.
• Support product strategy by breaking down complex problems and estimating effort for solutions.
• Serve as an architect, guiding decisions at the department and company level, offering balanced options and tradeoffs.
• Deliver technical solutions from design through implementation and operation.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering best practices, automation and infrastructure productivity: ensuring adherence to company-wide standards, including security.
• Identify and resolve technical challenges, addressing risks proactively.
• Mentor team members through code and architecture reviews, promoting growth and upskilling opportunities.
• Be part of Trade Republic Engineering Leadership

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR 

• You have at least 5 years experience in a senior engineering leadership role within a startup or rapidly growing company preferably in Fintech or Banking
• Deep expertise in data infrastructure and platform engineering; including databases, enterprise data management, building and operating batch/streaming pipelines.
• You have broad experience in managing infrastructure as code, enjoy improving automation, standardisation and productivity.
• You are familiar with Kubernetes, Networking and Identity & Access Management.
• You have strong leadership skills with the ability to influence and guide technical teams
• You are a hands-on leader, write excellent code and lead the team by example
• You have a track record of solving complex technical challenges and make decisions that drive innovation 
• You have experience working with C level leadership  

WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY NOW

At Trade Republic, you will get to do the best work of your career. We are a destination for people who are exceptional at what they do. Every day, we strive to build a world-class team and provide the space for people to do their best. We have a relentless ambition of raising the bar and expect the best from ourselves. Through our dedicated people-first management approach and transparent career paths, you will have the opportunity to develop and grow your career like never before. And because you are surrounded by a diverse team of high performers, you will be learning every day.

You will play an important role in fixing one of the largest challenges we face - closing the pension gap and democratizing wealth. Trade Republic is a place where your job, your career and your passions intersect. If this gets you fired up, just like it does for all of us at Trade Republic, then reach out!