Senior Production Engineer - Fintech/Digital Assets

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech scale-up seeks a Senior Production Engineer to enhance operational excellence within their innovative digital asset platform. The role offers extensive responsibilities in production stability, with a strong emphasis on reliability and cross-functional collaboration with senior leadership. Ideal candidates will possess deep expertise in cloud services, particularly Azure, and experience with microservices architecture as part of a dynamic engineering team.

Benefits

Market leading salary and annual discretionary bonus

Pension contributions

Health Insurance

Life Assurance

25 Annual Leave

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering or SRE/production infrastructure.
• Strong experience with Java and cloud platforms.
• Proven track record in building mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Leading on production resilience and incident frameworks.
• Building SLIs/SLOs; advocating for platform reliability best practices.
• Scaling infrastructure in Azure and monitoring across systems.

Skills

Java (Spring)

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK

Job description

Job Description

The Client

Tempest Vane Partners is supporting a high-growth, institution-backed fintech scale-up at the forefront of digital asset infrastructure. With global offices and a mission to bring regulated solutions to institutional finance, this firm is redefining how digital assets are secured and managed.

As part of their expansion, they’re looking to bring on a Senior Production Engineer to lead the charge on reliability, resilience, and operational excellence within a complex, high-uptime platform environment.

What You’ll Get

• A superb opportunity to join an institutionally backed, cutting edge Crypto Fintech at the beginning of their journey.
• An opportunity to work closely with the leadership team, contributing to and influencing decision making.
• Opportunities for learning and development, reflecting the importance of lifelong learning.
• Ability to work cross-functionally across the company on major initiatives and be at the forefront of innovative design and development.
• Market leading salary and annual discretionary bonus.
• Pension contributions, in addition to Health Insurance, Life Assurance.
• 25 Annual Leave.

What You’ll Be Doing

This is a hands-on and strategic engineering role where you’ll be responsible for ensuring production stability across a highly dynamic microservices architecture hosted in Azure. You’ll have end-to-end ownership over reliability tooling, incident response, and system performance—working across teams to scale a truly enterprise-grade platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading on production resilience, observability, and incident frameworks.
• Building SLIs/SLOs and advocating for best practices in platform reliability.
• Scaling infrastructure in Azure (AKS, App Insights, Key Vault, etc.).
• Automating recovery, scaling, and monitoring across distributed systems.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to align platform strategy and reliability goals.

What You’ll Bring:

• 8+ years in software engineering or SRE/production infrastructure roles.
• Strong experience with Java (Spring) and cloud platforms (ideally Azure).
• Proven track record in building and maintaining mission-critical systems.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes, observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, etc.), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep).
• Ability to lead technical conversations across Engineering and Product.

Bonus points if you bring:

• Experience in fintech, crypto, or regulated digital infrastructure
• RDBMS performance tuning (MS SQL)
• Knowledge of SLAs/SLOs/chaos engineering and platform risk management