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What you'll be doing & your impact
- Contribute to the development of new features and maintain existing features of the Freetrade Android app.
- Ensure high performance, quality, security and responsiveness of the application.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (including backend, design, product, and QA) to define, design, and ship new features. Upcoming features include giving our customers the ability to invest in their kids’ futures with JISA accounts, and rewarding our customers for good investing habits by building a dedicated rewards hub.
- Ensure the robustness of the application by writing tests and participating in code reviews.
- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs. Help maintain code quality, organisation, automation and application releases
- Ensure customer satisfaction by participating in a support rota to understand and address customer issues. This can include communicating directly with customers where necessary, helping to instil trust in the team behind the product.
What you bring to the team
- Typically around 4-5 years of experience developing production grade mobile applications
- Strong ability to problem solve and passionate about improving your skills and knowledge
- Good understanding of mobile architectural patterns, such as MVVM or MVI
- Experience in using industry standard tools for Android development, such as Kotlin, Dagger, Jetpack libraries
- Familiarity with Jetpack Compose for building modern, composable user interfaces
- Experience of using reactive libraries, such as coroutines or Rx
- Good understanding of Android frameworks development, with either an imperative or declarative approach
- Familiarity with using APIs to connect Android applications to backend services.
- Develop your understanding of Human Interface Guidelines.
- Working understanding of using code version control tools (such as Git), appreciation of continuous integration and build tools (CircleCI).
Benefits & Interview ProcessFreetrade 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.
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 central London and Budapest are 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, Focus and Grit. Expect to be asked about these in your interview!
Here’s what’s on offer in 2026
Bonus
es are linked to both company success and your individual impact.
- 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 7%.
- 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.
- 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. ** Eligibility is subject to length of service and statutory requirements.
- 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 instalments.
- Paid Sick Leave – Receive 10 days of fully paid sick leave each calendar year.
Interview Process
We keep things simple and transparent. Our process typically includes
- Initial interview – A chat with one of our Senior Talent Partners.
- Hiring Manager interview – A deep dive into your skills and experience.
- Live Coding – Show us how you think and solve problems.
- System Design – We’ll explore how you design systems to handle real-world challenges.
- Executive interview – A conversation with our stakeholders, where we also assess cultural fit.
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.
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Please note we are not accepting agency CVs.
