Senior Production Engineer - Fintech/Digital Assets

Tempestvanepartners; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering fintech company is seeking a Senior Production Engineer to enhance operational excellence within a high-uptime platform environment. The ideal candidate will lead efforts in ensuring production stability across dynamic microservices, require strong technical expertise in Azure and Java, and contribute to key decision-making processes.

Benefits

Market leading salary and annual discretionary bonus

Pension contributions

Health Insurance

Life Assurance

Opportunities for learning and development

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering or SRE/production infrastructure roles.
• Strong experience with Java and cloud platforms, ideally Azure.
• Proven track record in building and maintaining mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead production resilience, observability, and incident frameworks.
• Automate recovery, scaling, and monitoring across distributed systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align platform strategy.

Skills

Java (Spring)

Cloud platforms (Azure)

Kubernetes

Observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep)

RDBMS performance tuning

Platform risk management

Job description

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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.

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.
• Automating recovery, scaling, and monitoring across distributed systems.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to align platform strategy and reliability goals.

What You’ll Bring:

• 5+ 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.
• Experience in fintech, crypto, or regulated digital infrastructure
• RDBMS performance tuning (MS SQL)
• Knowledge of SLAs/SLOs/chaos engineering and platform risk management

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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