TL;DR

Senior Platform Engineer (Fintech): Designing, building, deploying, and operating scalable infrastructure services with an accent on distributed systems and cloud-native technologies. Focus on solving complex distributed systems problems, platform reliability, and automation to support a fintech product used by over 100,000 customers.

Location: London, 4 days onsite

Salary: £95,000 - £110,000 per annum

Company

One of the UK's fastest growing fintech scale-ups.

What you will do

  • Design, build, deploy, and operate secure, scalable infrastructure and automation.
  • Improve and develop tools to simplify infrastructure usage for engineers.
  • Research and adopt modern cloud-native technologies and best practices.
  • Promote high engineering standards across code quality, testing, and automation.

Requirements

  • Location: Must be based in London and work onsite 4 days a week
  • Strong backend engineering skills in Golang, Java, or .NET.
  • Experience building and operating distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS or GCP).
  • Kubernetes and container orchestration experience.
  • Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane or similar).
  • Proven track record leading platform or reliability transformations.
  • Ability to influence across teams without formal authority.

Culture & Benefits

  • Equal opportunities employer welcoming diverse applicants.
  • Work in a fast-growing fintech scale-up environment.
  • Competitive salary and benefits package.