Company & team news updates

Company news

Updates and news from the Freetrade team about our company, people, and behind-the-scenes processes.

March 10, 2021

Meet five female Freetraders

Five women at Freetrade share their stories, achievements and views on supporting women at work.

March 8, 2021

Celebrating International Women’s Day at Freetrade

Why the gender investing gap matters and how women are shaping investing.

February 26, 2021

Stream partitioned data from Firestore using Async Iterators in Node.js

How we used Node.js streams and async generators to export growing Firestore data reliably.

February 9, 2021

How we use feature flagging in client apps

How we use feature flags to test safely and roll out features with confidence

January 22, 2021

Using lint rules to prevent bugs

Custom lint rules help Freetrade devs avoid mobile app bugs

January 12, 2021

Data Infrastructure at Freetrade

How Freetrade’s data stack scales using BigQuery, DBT and Terraform.

December 27, 2020

Nine books every product designer should read

Design book recommendations to help designers overcome creative blocks and solve tough problems

December 17, 2020

The road to 500 serverless functions

Freetrade’s “mono-function” monorepo slashes serverless deploy times by 8.7x

December 11, 2020

Changing an industry with the help of a 250,000 person product team

How deep customer insight guides our product decisions at Freetrade.

November 20, 2020

Lessons learnt with Cloud Firestore

Key lessons Freetrade learned scaling Firestore, from data design to costs and backups.

November 10, 2020

Remote onboarding to a new job

How remote onboarding works at Freetrade, and what helped new engineers settle in during lockdown

October 29, 2020

Building Reactive Applications at Freetrade

How Freetrade uses reactive architecture and Firebase to power its mobile apps.

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Tools & Calculators

Helpful tools and resources for every kind of investor.

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