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Overview

Freetrade is a London company founded in 2016 that offers commission free share dealing through a mobile app. It gives retail investors access to British, American and European equities alongside tax efficient accounts and pensions. The company was acquired by IG Group in 2025 while continuing to run its own platform.

News

News CNBC 1 year ago
UK Robinhood rival Freetrade snapped up by trading firm at 29% valuation discount
U.K. Robinhood rival Freetrade has been acquired by IG Group for £160 million - a 29% discount to its last valuation.
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News NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth 1 year ago
UK Robinhood rival Freetrade snapped up by trading firm at 29% valuation discount
U.K. Robinhood rival Freetrade has been acquired by IG Group for £160 million - a 29% discount to its last valuation.
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News CNBC 2 years ago
Freetrade, Britain's answer to Robinhood, says its CEO is stepping down
British stockbrokerage platform Freetrade told CNBC exclusively Monday that its long-time CEO Adam Dodds has stepped down.
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News NBC 6 South Florida 2 years ago
Freetrade, Britain's answer to Robinhood, says its CEO is stepping down
British stockbrokerage platform Freetrade told CNBC exclusively Monday that its long-time CEO Adam Dodds has stepped down.
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News X (formerly Twitter) 5 years ago
Freetrade (@freetrade) on X
Due to a sudden and unexpected decision by our FX provider, and their bank, to limit our volume of trades, we have been forced to disable buy orders on US stocks today.We're deeply unhappy with this decision and we are doing everything possible to rectify
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Freetrade.io hits 200,000 customers with trading volumes on the rise
In a recent interview with Buy Shares, Freetrade.io Chief Marketing Officer Viktor Nebehaj has talked about the platform's recent surge in customers. According to Viktor, Freetrade.io now enjoys around 200,000…
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Freetrade over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
32
Postings analysed
10
Stack modernity
72/100
Languages
Node JS50%
TypeScript50%
JavaScript50%
Swift30%
Frameworks & libraries
Combine30%
RxSwift30%
SwiftUI30%
Dagger10%
Databases
PostgreSQL40%
Cloud & platforms
GCP50%
Kubernetes10%
AWS10%
Azure10%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$152k
Typical range
$152k
Open positions
3
3 Jobs
Senior 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 3 $152k $152k
Highest paying role Senior Backend Software Engineer $152k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
66/100
Growing
Open positions
4
1 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
64 days
faster than 20% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
40% ▼
Mobile
20% ▲
Operations
20% ▲
DevOps
10% ▼
Leadership
10% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added MVI to stack Sep 2026
Added Kotlin Coroutines to stack Sep 2026
Added Kotlin to stack Sep 2026
Added Jetpack Compose to stack Sep 2026
Added Dagger to stack Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack Sep 2026
Added DLP to stack Sep 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
London
London United Kingdom
HQ
4 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 75% engineering 50-200 est. staff $152k Avg Salary
hires for Mobile, Backend, Leadership
145 City Road, London, [REDACTED-UK-POSTCODE], GB
seen since Jul 2026 company site, job postings
Earlier presence
Budapest, Hungary 1 open roles · last posting Aug 2026

Jobs

≈ $123k – $226k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • London
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
VPN
Cybersecurity
GDPR
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$99k – $152k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • London
Swift
RxSwift
Swift Concurrency
Frontend
GraphQL
Mobile
SwiftUI
Combine
DevOps
CircleCI
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$99k – $152k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • London
Kotlin
Dagger
Kotlin Coroutines
Frontend
GraphQL
Mobile
Jetpack Compose
MVI
MVVM
DevOps
CircleCI
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$99k – $152k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • London
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
PostgreSQL
DevOps
GCP
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Financials

Total raised
$15M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
19
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
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