Platform Engineer at VC-backed fintech platform

This is a job that we are recruiting for on behalf of one of our customers. To apply, speak to Jack. He's an AI agent that sends you unmissable jobs and then helps you ace the interview. He'll make sure you are considered for this role, and help you find others if you ask. Platform Engineer Company Description: VC-backed fintech platform Job Description: As a Platform Engineer, you'll be crucial in building and maintaining the infrastructure and tooling that empowers product teams to deliver a high-performance fintech application. You will focus on ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance, proactively identifying improvements, and collaborating to optimize a high-traffic service. This role drives resilience and best practices across the engineering organization. Location: London, UK Why this role is remarkable: Be an integral part of a platform team, shaping the core infrastructure for a high-traffic fintech service Join a well-funded, VC-backed platform poised for significant growth and impact Drive a culture of reliability, resilience, and performance optimization across a rapidly scaling engineering organization What you will do: Build and iterate on platform tooling and best practices, including SLIs/SLOs, for deep performance understanding Identify and test for potential scaling challenges across codebase, compute, and data infrastructure Develop and optimize Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and manage deployment pipelines in CircleCI The ideal candidate: 4+ years in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles, specifically with high-traffic services Deep, hands-on expertise with Amazon EKS/Kubernetes, RDS/Postgres, and Redis Proven track record in setting SLIs/SLOs and conducting error-budget reviews How to Apply: To apply for this job speak to Jack, our AI recruiter. Step 1. Visit our website Step 2. Click 'Speak with Jack' Step 3. Login with your LinkedIn profile Step 4. Talk to Jack for 20 minutes so he can understand your experience and ambitions Step 5. If the hiring manager would like to meet you, Jack will make the introduction