Senior Full-Stack Web Engineer (Next.js/Apollo GraphQL)
Senior Full-Stack Web Engineer
Budapest, Hungary
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.
Budapest, Hungary
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 Our Engineering Team?
Be part of a team that’s shaping the future of investments. As an engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining a robust, scalable platform used by thousands daily. We tackle complex technical challenges, drive innovation, and build solutions that make a real impact. Here, your code doesn’t just run—it powers the decisions of investors across the UK. Join us and turn ideas into reality.
We are looking for a Senior-Level Full-Stack Web Engineer who is keen to contribute to our mission and grow within our team.
Role Overview:
Our Senior Full-Stack Web Engineer will be responsible for developing Freetrade’s web application, with a focus on Next.js and Apollo GraphQL Federation API integration. This position suits candidates at senior level who are prepared to contribute significantly at both the individual and team levels, engaging closely with engineering teams and business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the technical direction for the team, making key decisions that align with both engineering and business strategies.
- Tackle complex projects that span across multiple teams, addressing significant ambiguity in both implementation and business requirements.
- Map team goals to the roadmap, making critical trade-offs based on business needs and engineering complexity to maximise delivery outcomes.
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to synchronise priorities and estimations, taking into account broader company objectives.
- Spearhead the design and implementation of long-term projects, focusing on architectural improvements, technical debt reduction, and enhancing engineering practices.
- Guide technical decisions affecting multiple teams, recommending frameworks, languages, and other large-scale technical choices.
- Work closely with business stakeholders to translate ambiguous requirements into detailed technical designs and feasible implementation strategies.
- Foster a collaborative environment across teams, identifying skill gaps and leading efforts to elevate engineering standards and knowledge within the team.
- Ensure comprehensive testing across multiple levels (unit, integration, etc.), learning from production issues to inform team learning and goals.
Skills & Knowledge
- Demonstrated experience leading complex web application development projects, particularly with Next.js, Apollo GraphQL, Terraform, GCP.
- Proven ability to navigate significant technical and business ambiguity, making decisions that impact cross-team collaboration and project delivery.
- Strong track record of technical leadership, including making framework, language, and infrastructure decisions.
- Deep understanding of non-functional requirements such as performance, accessibility, and operational needs, and the ability to implement features with these considerations in mind.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of modifying communication style to suit different audiences, including technical factors to business stakeholders.
- A proactive approach to seeking and providing feedback, embracing feedback from all levels within the organisation.
- Experience in designing and setting up CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI or ArgoCD, would be beneficial.
Development Opportunities & Benefits
Development Opportunities
- Lead initiatives that significantly impact engineering practices and project delivery across the company.
- Opportunity to shape the technical direction of a leading fintech platform, influencing both short-term project outcomes and long-term strategic goals.
- Continuous learning and development, both through formal policies and by mentoring others within the organisation.
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:
Office first culture - we have beautiful office spaces in central London and Budapest where four days a week you collaborate with colleagues in person, one of our core behaviours is that we’re a team that works better together.
Values - at Freetrade we live and breathe our values: Honesty, Focus and Grit. Expect to be asked about these in your interview!
Benefits In Budapest:
• Competitive salary - carefully benchmarked.
• Sickness coverage - You get a 100% coverage up to 15 days/annum.
• Cafeteria - an annual budget to spend at your discretion, whether by adding it to your SZÉP card, covering car-sharing expenses, or using it toward your rent
• Health insurance - Medicover Blue package, which includes annual preventive examinations, extensive outpatient care, diagnostic tests, one-day surgeries, dental check-up, and even therapeutic exercises.
• Learning & Development - We fund industry qualifications so you can grow as a financial services professional.
• Option to Work From Anywhere - for up to four weeks per year.
• Holidays - 20 days as a base, plus your birthday off, and one extra day for every year at Freetrade.
• A new discretionary bonus scheme - coming this year!
• Competitive salary - carefully benchmarked.
• Sickness coverage - You get a 100% coverage up to 15 days/annum.
• Cafeteria - an annual budget to spend at your discretion, whether by adding it to your SZÉP card, covering car-sharing expenses, or using it toward your rent
• Health insurance - Medicover Blue package, which includes annual preventive examinations, extensive outpatient care, diagnostic tests, one-day surgeries, dental check-up, and even therapeutic exercises.
• Learning & Development - We fund industry qualifications so you can grow as a financial services professional.
• Option to Work From Anywhere - for up to four weeks per year.
• Holidays - 20 days as a base, plus your birthday off, and one extra day for every year at Freetrade.
• A new discretionary bonus scheme - coming this year!
Following the close of the deal to become part of IG Group, you can expect that our benefits package will further improve to align with the benefits on offer.
Interview Process
We keep things simple and transparent. Our process typically includes:
1. Initial interview – A chat with one of our Talent Specialists.
2. Hiring Manager interview – A deep dive into your skills and experience.
3. Live Coding – Show us how you think and solve problems.
4. System Design
5. Executive interview – A conversation with our stakeholders, where we also assess cultural fit.
We keep things simple and transparent. Our process typically includes:
1. Initial interview – A chat with one of our Talent Specialists.
2. Hiring Manager interview – A deep dive into your skills and experience.
3. Live Coding – Show us how you think and solve problems.
4. System Design
5. Executive interview – A conversation with our stakeholders, where we also assess cultural fit.
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Please note we are not accepting agency CVs.
About Freetrade
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.
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.