Software Engineer

This role will strengthen the Front-End Development team in London and play an important role in Trade Nation’s Greenfield web development initiatives. You’ll be responsible for building new customer-facing experiences, working closely with Product to clarify and challenge requirements, developing high-quality React solutions, and collaborating with our QA Engineers to ensure everything you deliver is robust and production-ready.

Who We Are

Trade Nation is a global CFD and spread betting broker. We help traders make better decisions through clear market insights, transparent pricing and fairer approach to trading.

Since 2014, we’ve grown into a market-leading, low-cost broker with our headquarters in London and offices across Europe, South Africa, Asia-Pacific, and key offshore regions including the Caribbean and Indian Ocean. Our platform is available in 14 languages, making it accessible to traders worldwide.

Built on transparency and trust, and driven by our people, our focus is simple: helping customers trade more effectively. We do that by keeping costs low, cutting unnecessary complexity and using technology to put traders first.

Our commitments to each other

We have each other’s backs

There when we need each other most

We challenge each other

Be more creative, more curious, and more bold

We thrive together

Taking our work to the next level

We form strong bonds

Through team-building and social events

We don’t judge

Instead, we teach and are open to learning

We step up

Taking ownership and supporting one another to do the same

Responsibilities

• Writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code based on project requirements
• Designing, developing, and implementing new software features
• Collaborating with team members to identify and fix bugs in existing code
• Creating tests to ensure code quality and functionality
• Debugging and troubleshooting issues in development and production environments
• Conducting code reviews and providing constructive feedback to peers
• Maintaining up-to-date technical documentation for software components
• Documenting code changes, enhancements, and newly developed features
• Working closely with senior engineers, project managers, and designers to understand project requirements
• Attending team meetings and contributing to project planning and execution, with a commitment to delivering feature development in two-week sprints
• Engaging in continuous learning and professional development to improve skills and expertise
• Accurately tracking work status and communicating blockers and progress to the team
• Controlling the release of code into production environments
• Thoroughly testing and validating releases to prevent disruptions in production

Requirements

• Experience working with commercial and/or financial systems

• Exposure to APIs, authentication, and secure data handling
• Strong hands-on experience delivering projects in a commercial environment
• Solid understanding of Agile ways of working
• Proficiency with modern React, including hooks and context
• Experience with RESTful APIs, CI pipelines, and Git-based workflows
• Experience developing for Payload or another Enterprise CMS

Benefits

• Competitive salary, and discretionary annual bonus.
• Private healthcare.
• Life Insurance, Critical Illness & Income Protection cover.
• Active Lifestyle allowance.
• Annual leave above minimum entitlement.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Up to 3 weeks allowance to work in any location.