Site Reliability Engineer — FinTech, Greenfield Impact

Hunter Bond; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Beautiful offices

Small team size

No red tape

Cutting-edge technology

Job summary

Elite FinTech Firm in London seeks a hands-on Site Reliability Engineer to join its production and development teams, ensuring reliability, performance and resilience of mission-critical systems. You will bridge development and operations, solving complex problems across the full production lifecycle.

The role emphasizes automation, incident management, and collaboration with investment teams, with a focus on low-latency environments and scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related STEM field, or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for production-grade tooling.
• Experience with modern development tooling: CI/CD, source control, and build systems.
• Strong communication skills and an entrepreneurial, problem-solving mindset.
• Desirable: networking experience (low latency) or prior HFT exposure.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, availability, and performance of applications in production.
• Automate repetitive operational work and resolve recurring systemic issues.
• Conduct root cause analysis and deliver new engineering solutions to complex technical problems.
• Lead incident management, including both immediate resolution and longer-term preventative fixes.
• Promote SRE best practices and standards across other engineering teams.
• Understand application behaviour end-to-end, including its business context.

Skills

Python

SQL

CI/CD

Source control

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related STEM field

Tools

Git

CI/CD tooling

Build systems

Job description

Elite FinTech Firm in London seeks a hands-on Site Reliability Engineer to join its production and development teams, ensuring reliability, performance and resilience of mission-critical systems. You will bridge development and operations, solving complex problems across the full production lifecycle.

The role emphasizes automation, incident management, and collaboration with investment teams, with a focus on low-latency environments and scalable infrastructure.