Senior Production Engineer - Fintech/Digital Assets

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

Job summary

Join a pioneering fintech firm as a Senior Production Engineer in London, leading efforts in production stability and operational excellence. Leverage your expertise in Java and cloud technologies, while collaborating with teams to innovate and scale platform performance. This role offers impactful responsibilities and significant opportunities for professional growth in a cutting-edge environment.

Benefits

Market leading salary and annual discretionary bonus

Pension contributions

Health Insurance

Life Assurance

Opportunities for learning and development

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering or SRE/production infrastructure roles.
• Strong experience with Java (Spring) and Azure.
• Proven track record in building and maintaining mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Leading on production resilience, observability, and incident frameworks.
• Automating recovery, scaling, and monitoring across distributed systems.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to align platform strategy.

Skills

Java (Spring)

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Observability tooling

Infrastructure as Code

RDBMS performance tuning

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:

• 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.
• 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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