Senior Platform Engineer (Fintech)

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.