Fintech Platform Engineering Lead

Shou; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A fintech scale-up is seeking a head of engineering to lead engineering initiatives, focusing on enhancing developer experience and platform engineering. The ideal candidate will be highly proficient in AWS services and CI/CD pipeline maintenance, with experience in monitoring tools and Infrastructure as Code. A background in the fintech sector is advantageous. This role promises opportunities for growth and learning within a dynamic team in Greater London.

Qualifications

• Proficient in AWS services.
• Solid understanding of monitoring tools.
• Experience with SRE and incident management.
• Capable of maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiar with Linux, Git, and Docker.
• Proficient in at least one modern programming language.
• Experienced with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Serverless.
• Strong interest in enhancing developer experience.

Skills

AWS services (ECS, EC2, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route53, CloudFront, S3, RDS)

Monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, ELK)

Basic SRE knowledge

Incident management systems (Opsgenie, PagerDuty)

CI/CD pipelines development

Linux

Git

Docker

Scripting (Python, Bash, Go)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or Serverless

Platform Engineering

Job description

A fintech scale-up is seeking a head of engineering to lead engineering initiatives, focusing on enhancing developer experience and platform engineering. The ideal candidate will be highly proficient in AWS services and CI/CD pipeline maintenance, with experience in monitoring tools and Infrastructure as Code. A background in the fintech sector is advantageous. This role promises opportunities for growth and learning within a dynamic team in Greater London.