Database Platform Tech Lead

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 10 million customers who trust us with over 150B in assets. But were 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 Republics 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 banks infrastructure. Were 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 YOULL 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 WERE 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 youll 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 were 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 its our teams varied identities and backgrounds that make us sharper and stronger. Were 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.