Platform Engineer

Lendable Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Private health insurance

Hybrid work model

Office lunches

Job summary

Lendable is seeking a Platform Engineer in London to build and operate multi-account AWS platforms powering our fintech products. You will join a Platform Engineering team of eight and partner with product teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure.

This hands-on role emphasizes on-call reliability, platforms tooling, and safe deployments. You’ll work on Terraform/Terragrunt, Kubernetes, GitOps, and observability while enhancing self-service capabilities for engineering teams

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience deploying and supporting Kubernetes applications.
• Experience with a cloud platform (AWS) and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Experience with modern CI/CD tooling and on-call incident response.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the platform: AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Terragrunt, with support from the Platform Engineering team.
• Help operate Kubernetes, GitOps and observability tooling in production.
• Investigate and resolve platform issues, contributing to incident response and post-incident improvements.
• Share an on-call rotation with the team.
• Enable safe, fast delivery with progressive rollouts and safe rollbacks.
• Contribute to CI/CD and developer tooling to improve the engineering experience.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

TypeScript/Node

Linux

Networking basics

Troubleshooting

PostgreSQL

Tools

Terragrunt

Helm

Job description

# Platform Engineer* London* Full Time (Permanent)* Hybrid* Platform EngineeringApply for this role## About the role## Role overviewWe’re looking for a Platform Engineer to help build and operate the multi-account AWS platforms that power Lendable’s products. You’ll join a Platform Engineering team of eight and work closely with product engineering teams across the business.This is a hands-on production role where reliability and fast recovery matter. You’ll contribute to the design, delivery and operation of platform capabilities, working with more experienced engineers to make our systems safer, easier to use and more efficient.We build with self-service in mind: creating paved roads, useful abstractions and sensible guardrails so product teams can move quickly without needing to understand all the underlying complexity.## What you’ll do### Build and operate the platform* Build, configure and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt, with support from the wider Platform Engineering team* Help operate Kubernetes, GitOps and observability tooling in production* Investigate and resolve platform issues, contributing to incident response and post-incident improvements* Share an on-call rotation with the team### Enable safe, fast delivery* Support progressive rollouts, canary deployments and safe rollbacks* Contribute to CI/CD and developer tooling that improves the engineering experience* Partner with engineering teams on infrastructure, database and deployment best practices* Help improve self-service capabilities and platform adoption across teams### Build security into everyday engineering* Apply security practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle* Contribute to policy-as-code, OIDC-based cloud access, secret scanning and pre-merge controls* Work with the Platform Engineering and Security teams to improve the safety of our systems### Keep learning and improving* Use AI-assisted tooling for code generation, debugging and platform operations* Share knowledge through documentation, pairing and constructive code reviews* Build the confidence to take on increasing ownership of platform components over time## What you’ll bring### Essential experience* Practical experience deploying and supporting applications running on Kubernetes* Experience working with a cloud platform, ideally AWS* Working knowledge of infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform* Experience with modern CI/CD tooling* Comfort scripting in at least one of TypeScript/Node, Python or Go* A good grounding in Linux, networking and security fundamentals* Experience troubleshooting production systems and working through operational issues### Useful experience* Terragrunt or Helm* GitHub Actions, ArgoCD or Flux* Datadog, Prometheus or Grafana* PostgreSQL or MySQL* Supporting developer-experience or internal-platform improvements* Working with security tooling or policy-as-codeWe don’t expect every box to be ticked. If you have a strong foundation, practical production experience and the curiosity to keep learning, we’d like to hear from you.## Interview process1. Intro call with Talent Team (20 min)2. Cognitive Test (15 min)3. Hiring Manager call (30 min)4. Practical platform and solution-design interview (2 hours)5. Culture interview (45 min)Apply for this role## About LendableLendable is on a mission to **build** the **world's best technology** to **help people get credit** and **save money**.* **Founded** in 2014* **Profitable** since 2017* **Unicorn** in 2021* Backed by **Balderton, Goldman Sachs** and **Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan*** **Loved** by customers & employees with top reviews on Glassdoor and TrustpilotSo far, we’ve rebuilt the big three consumer finance products from scratch: **loans, credit cards and car finance.** We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days. We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do. We’re going after the two biggest Western markets **(UK and US)** where trillions are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.## Life at Lendable* The opportunity to scale up one of the **world’s most successful** fintech companies* **Best-in-class** compensation, including equity* You can work from home **every Monday and Friday** if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas* **Our in-house chefs** prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday* We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to **private health insurance*** We're an **equal opportunity employer** and are keen to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London