NALA
Financial Services
InfrastructureEngineer
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“Infrastructure Engineer at NALA. Skills: Cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, Observability, Reliability. Build cloud infrastructure. Improve cloud infrastructure”
What You'll Achieve.
Improve infrastructure reliability; Improve deployment speed; Improve observability tooling; Reduce operational bottlenecks; Improve developer velocity; Improve platform reliability; Improve monitoring coverage; Improve incident response processes; Scale infrastructure
Industry & Context.
Debugging production issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Production infrastructure on AWS, Infrastructure as Code tools, Terraform, Containerised workloads using ECS, Docker in production, Operating Kafka, Operating Redis, Managed relational databases, RDS, Networking fundamentals, Security fundamentals, Observability fundamentals, Distributed systems fundamentals, Improving CI/CD pipelines, Deployment automation, Debugging production issues, Incident response, Clear communication skills, Work closely with software engineers
Nice to Have
Experience building internal developer platforms, Self-serve infrastructure tooling, Supporting SOC2, Supporting ISO27001, Supporting compliance initiatives
What You'll Do.
Build cloud infrastructure
Improve cloud infrastructure
Ensure high availability
Improve developer experience
Provide self-serve tooling
Implement infrastructure-as-code
Increase engineering velocity
Evolve observability practices
Evolve incident response practices
Improve system performance
Partner with product teams
Partner with engineering teams
Support platform improvements
Strengthen security posture
Implement best practices
Improve CI/CD pipelines
Improve deployment workflows
Enable reliable releases
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with product teams; Partner with engineering teams; Work closely with software engineers
Communication Scope
Clear communication skills
Process & Methodology
Infrastructure scaling
Full Job Description
### **👋 About Us** NALA is building Payments for the Next Billion. Faster, smarter, and fairer transfers for everyone. Since 2022, we've grown our business 120x, grown the team from 9 to 150+, [raised $50M+ from top-tier investors](https://medium.com/nala-money/the-next-billion-nalas-40m-announcement-eb9d8d005eae), and were named to the [Forbes Fintech 50](https://www.forbes.com/lists/fintech50/) in 2025 & 2026. We operate two core products: * [**NALA**](https://www.nala.com/), our consumer app makes cross-border payments cheaper, faster and more reliable for the global diaspora. Allowing users to send money from the UK, US and EU to Africa and Asia. * [**Rafiki**](https://www.rafiki.com/), our B2B payments infrastructure, is powering global payments. Our team includes alumni from Wise, Stripe, Monzo, Revolut, and CashApp — operators who’ve scaled world-class products. We act with urgency, think deeply, and put our customers first always. At NALA, this isn’t just a job. It’s ownership, impact, and the chance to change global payments forever. Join us in building [Payments for the Next Billion](https://www.nala.com/blog/nalas-updated-mission#:~:text=When%20I%20started%20building%20NALA,are%20more%20urgent%20than%20ever.)**.** ### 🙌 Your Mission Your mission is to build and scale the infrastructure that powers fast, reliable and secure global payments at NALA. You’ll help create resilient systems, developer platforms and cloud foundations that enable engineering teams to ship confidently at high velocity. ### 🎯 Your Responsibilities in this Role * Build and improve the cloud infrastructure powering NALA and Rafiki, ensuring high availability, scalability and security across our systems. * Improve developer experience through automation, self-serve tooling and infrastructure-as-code practices that increase engineering velocity. * Own and evolve our observability, incident response and reliability practices to minimise downtime and improve system performance. * Partn
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