Senior Platform Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Platform Engineer: Building and maintaining the infrastructure, tools, and processes that support hirify.global's technology teams, with an accent on Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and Terraform. Focus on enhancing foundational tools, backend services, and automating infrastructure to enable hirify.global's growth.

Location: Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)

Salary: £95,000 - £130,000

Company

hirify.global is on a mission to make money work for everyone by waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

What you will do

• Enhance and maintain foundational tools and systems.
• Work hands-on with Kubernetes clusters, AWS infrastructure, and configuration management using Terraform.
• Integrate and manage various open-source components to provide robust, scalable primitives for engineering teams.
• Design and implement backend services (APIs, controllers, etc.) that provide a simplified, self-service experience for other engineers.
• Develop software for complex projects like infrastructure migrations, high-scale traffic management, or security tooling.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience in software engineering, demonstrated by writing, testing, and deploying robust backend services using strongly typed languages.
• Hands-on experience working with AWS and/or GCP, and proficiency with Kubernetes.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform).
• Curiosity about systems, enjoy diving deep to investigate complex issues, and understand how modern distributed applications fail and scale.
• Excited to build a platform that enables success for everyone at hirify.global, focusing on reliability, performance, and developer experience.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced team that deals with ambiguity and evolving requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours.
• Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences.
• Relocation assistance to the UK is available.
• Visa sponsorship is available.
• Open to distributed working within the UK with ad hoc meetings in London.

Hiring process

• Initial Call
• Take home task or pair coding exercise
• Final interview: including a system design and a behavioural interview