Platform Engineer at VC-backed fintech platform

Jack & Jill/External ATS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in London is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and maintain infrastructure and tooling for high-performance applications. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering, along with in-depth knowledge of Amazon EKS and Kubernetes. This role offers responsibilities in optimizing performance, reliability, and collaboration across product teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles, specifically with high-traffic services.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Amazon EKS/Kubernetes, RDS/Postgres, and Redis.
• Proven track record in setting SLIs/SLOs and conducting error-budget reviews.

Responsibilities

• Build and iterate on platform tooling and best practices, including SLIs/SLOs.
• Identify and test for potential scaling challenges across codebase, compute, and data infrastructure.
• Develop and optimize Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and manage deployment pipelines in CircleCI.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

Platform engineering

Amazon EKS

Kubernetes

RDS/Postgres

Redis

Tools

Terraform

CircleCI

Job description

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Platform Engineer

Company Description

VC-backed fintech platform

Job Description

As a Platform Engineer, you'll be crucial in building and maintaining the infrastructure and tooling that empowers product teams to deliver a high-performance fintech application. You will focus on ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance, proactively identifying improvements, and collaborating to optimize a high-traffic service. This role drives resilience and best practices across the engineering organization.

Location

London, UK

Why this role is remarkable

• Be an integral part of a platform team, shaping the core infrastructure for a high-traffic fintech service
• Join a well-funded, VC-backed platform poised for significant growth and impact
• Drive a culture of reliability, resilience, and performance optimization across a rapidly scaling engineering organization

What you will do

• Build and iterate on platform tooling and best practices, including SLIs/SLOs, for deep performance understanding
• Identify and test for potential scaling challenges across codebase, compute, and data infrastructure
• Develop and optimize Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and manage deployment pipelines in CircleCI

The ideal candidate

• 4+ years in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles, specifically with high-traffic services
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Amazon EKS/Kubernetes, RDS/Postgres, and Redis
• Proven track record in setting SLIs/SLOs and conducting error-budget reviews

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