Staff Engineer (Infrastructure)

The Infrastructure team is responsible for operating and maintaining a scalable, secure and performant cloud platform to support our engineering organisation and growing user base. We are hiring a Staff Engineer (Infrastructure), who will have a strategic impact across multiple teams and technologies. We are looking for a leader who can drive forward technical initiatives, both as an individual contributor and by growing other Engineers.

This person will report to the Engineering Manager, Infrastructure.

• Design, build and operate production-grade AWS infrastructure within a Fintech environment.

• Influence and contribute to the technical direction and roadmap across engineering. Collaborate across teams to deliver high-impact technical outcomes.

• Mentor junior Engineers, to actively support their development.

• Be an individual contributor to our infrastructure code - raising the bar in terms of reliability, quality, security and cost optimisation.

• Take ownership of important components within our infrastructure architecture such as CI/CD, observability, container orchestration, disaster recovery, identity & access management, or cloud networking.

• Operational excellence - respond to incidents and participate in the Infrastructure team on-call rotation.

• 8+ years experience of professional software engineering.

• Excellent communication skills, fluent in written and spoken English - it is our business language.

• Recent experience in platform/SRE/infrastructure space, working across engineering teams to improve delivery. Experience of SaaS and/or Fintech is a bonus.

• Deep technical expertise in infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration and cloud architecture.

• Prior experience in backend software development - we’re looking for someone who can collaborate and deliver projects that span across the application & Infrastructure teams.

• Pragmatic mindset - ability to adapt to change, navigate ambiguity, take the initiative and proactively solve issues.

• AWS as our cloud platform.

• Kubernetes for container orchestration.

• AWS RDS, Kafka, Elasticache, Terraform.

• Datadog for observability.

• Github for source code & CI/CD.

• Backend services are developed in NodeJS (Typescript).

• Frontend is React.