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Data Engineer

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Greater London
4 months ago
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Description

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.

Why join the Data team at Freetrade?
Data is at the core of how we make decisions, build products, and drive the business forward. This year, we’re scaling our data platform, refining self service analytics, and partnering across the business to tackle high impact projects. If you want to work on meaningful challenges where data turns into action, this role is for you.


Key Responsibilities


  • Build the pipelines that put Freetrade’s data to work, deploying jobs into our Kubernetes cluster, writing Python code to orchestrate them in Dagster, and modelling the data in our BigQuery data warehouse.
  • Evolve our testing, alerting and quality monitoring capabilities to continuously improve the trust of our data.
  • Deploy data infrastructure through Terraform+Atlantis and write CICD pipelines.
  • Improve the team’s operations, adding robustness and increasing efficiency.
  • Build relationships with the Product and Engineering teams that produce our data and implement best practices for the data that we consume.


About You


  • Written data pipelines from scratch in Python and SQL
  • Deployed your pipelines into production and owned the regular processing they perform, monitoring data quality and responding to issues
  • Experience writing clean, high-quality, testable code
  • Built and deployed data pipelines and/or data-centric applications in the cloud, preferably Google Cloud
  • Imported data from a wide variety of data sources including relational and NoSQL databases, APIs, cloud storage, etc
  • Knowledge of data protection, data security, and privacy best practices


Benefits

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 


We’re operating in a hybrid model:3-days in-office / 2-days from home. We believe great collaboration happens in person and our beautiful offices in centralLondonandBudapestare designed to bring people together.


🏢Office days:Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
🏡Work from home days:Wednesday, Friday


This setup helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and keep building a culture where we all do our best work together, including dedicated days for focus work.



Flexibility for those who need it: We have a hybrid working model, but life happens. If you need flexibility let's talk about it, whether you're a parent or have other care responsibilities.


Values- at Freetrade we live and breathe our values:Honesty,FocusandGrit. Expect to be asked about these in your interview! 

Benefits In London: 


  • Competitive salary– carefully benchmarked.

  • 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 –Protect your loved ones with coverage at 5x your salary, ensuring financial security in any circumstance. 

  • Private Health Insurance -Which includes access to high quality medical care, mental health support, dental and vision plans, Wellness programs and preventative care initiatives are also provided to ensure the wellbeing of your entire family.

  • Bonus Scheme - join us and share in our growth.Bonuses are linked to both company success and your individual impact.
    First payouts: July 2026

  • Income Protection Cover– Safeguard your income with comprehensive coverage, ensuring financial stability in the event of illness or injury.

  • Enhanced parental leave– Time off when it matters most.

  • Flexibility for those who need it– We’re office-first, but life happens. Whether you’re a parent or have care responsibilities, we focus on output and trust you to manage your time.

  • Learning & Development– We fund industry qualifications so you can grow as a financial services professional. 

  • Cycle to Work scheme– Get a high quality bike and gear through our salary sacrifice scheme, spreading the cost with tax free monthly installments. 

  • Paid Sick Leave– Receive 10 days of fully paid sick leave each calendar year.
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. 


To find out more about how we look after your personal data when you apply for a job with us, please see our Recruitment Privacy Policyhere.

Please note we are not accepting agency CVs.
Freetrade is an award-winning investing app with over 1 million users. ‍ Our mission is to get everyone investing by making it simpler and more affordable. We bring together people with diverse skills and backgrounds, ranging from leading financial services companies to Big Tech to more. Together we are focused on building an open and transparent stockbroker you can trust.

Openness and transparency is in our DNA and applies to all aspects of our company. We encourage an open and inclusive environment and pride ourselves on being candid, curious, focused, humble and gritty.

Our headquarters are based in London and we’re hiring.


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