Senior Production Engineer

Fundamental Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Production Engineer and take ownership of the production aspects of software development. In this dynamic role, you'll ensure systems are performant and scalable while integrating new features into the existing stack. Your expertise in cloud platforms and data pipelines will drive operational excellence across a rapidly growing SaaS business. With a culture that values innovation and accountability, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of B2B marketing technology. If you're ready to make a significant impact, this is the place for you.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Discretionary bonus

Career growth opportunities

Private healthcare

Life cover

Cycle scheme

Season ticket loans

25 days annual leave

Paid leave for charity work

Free snacks in the office

Qualifications

• Proven track record as a Production Engineer or Senior Software Engineer in a SaaS environment.
• Experience in high-growth startup or scale-up businesses is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimise our live software environment for stability and scalability.
• Oversee and improve real-time data ingestion pipelines for resilience and scalability.

Skills

Production Engineering

Software Engineering

MySQL

BigQuery

Google Cloud

Real-time Data Pipelines

Strategic Thinking

Operational Excellence

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

MySQL

BigQuery

Job description

About Us

Alphix is a privately held, forward-thinking business part of Fundamental Group, an award-winning, global leader in the B2B and financial marketing services sector. As a fast-paced scale-up, Alphix is experiencing rapid growth, securing an increasing number of clients and delivering cutting-edge, privacy-first marketing technologies. Our solutions empower B2B marketers to become more agile and responsive through the power of AI and data.

This is a highly innovative environment that thrives on change. We seek individuals who embrace transformation, dislike stagnation, and have a deep sense of autonomy and accountability. At Alphix, your contributions directly shape the future of B2B marketing.

The Role:

As a Senior Production Engineer, you will take full ownership of the production aspects of our software development lifecycle. Your mission will be to ensure our systems are highly performant, scalable, cost-effective, and capable of supporting rapid business growth. You'll play a crucial role in integrating prototypes and new features into our existing stack, while continually optimising and improving our production environment and processes.

You will need to be self-directed, action-oriented, and comfortable making high-impact decisions quickly. Your focus will include consulting on new product developments, refining complex real-time data pipelines handling millions of data points, and driving operational excellence across our SaaS platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Production Ownership: Manage and optimise our live software environment, ensuring stability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Integration Leadership: Consult on new feature and product development, integrating these into the existing production infrastructure with minimal disruption.
• Performance Optimisation: Continuously monitor, benchmark, and enhance system performance and reliability.
• Data Pipeline Management: Oversee and improve our extensive real-time data ingestion pipelines, ensuring they are resilient, scalable, and future proof.
• Process Innovation: Identify and implement improvements across workflows, deployment processes, and monitoring practices.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to ensure production priorities align with strategic goals.
• Technical Mentorship: Promote a high-performance culture through knowledge sharing, code quality advocacy, and technical leadership.
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• Proven track record as a Production Engineer or a Senior Software Engineer in a SaaS environment.
• Experience in high-growth startup or scale-up businesses is highly desirable.
• Deep technical expertise in:
• Databases such as MySQL, Singlestore, and BigQuery.
• Real-time, high-throughput data pipelines.
• Cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, feature deployment processes and testing.
• Ability to drive rapid decision-making, manage competing priorities, and deliver under pressure.
• Strategic thinking combined with a hands-on ability to execute technical solutions.
• Passion for continuous learning, improvement, and operational excellence.
  

What we offer:

• Supportive, friendly colleagues who work together to achieve shared goals and contribute directly to mission-critical systems that underpin the future growth of the business.
• Competitive salary and a discretionary bonus
• Career growth opportunities: We’re committed to your success and offer recognition, rewards, and the training and support needed for advancement
• A dynamic and innovative work environment within a contemporary, world class engineers who value agility, transparency and technical excellence.
• 100% Club: A prestigious, peer-nominated award where top performers earn an all-expenses-paid vacation (previous destinations include Dubai, skiing in France, diving in the Red Sea, and Mykonos)
• Excellent benefits including pension contribution, private healthcare, life cover, cycle scheme, season ticket loans, 25 days’ annual leave pro rata, 2 days paid leave for charity work, study loans and free snacks in the office

If you're ready to drive transformative change, own and evolve world-class production systems, and help shape the future of an ambitious SaaS business, we want to hear from you.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation, or age.

Personal data collected will be used for recruitment purposes only. Strictly no agencies.

Experience

Proven track record as a Production Engineer or a Senior Software Engineer in a SaaS environment.