Lendable
fintech
SeniorPlatformEngineer
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“Senior Platform Engineer at Lendable. Skills: Platform Engineering, AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt), CI/CD, Observability, Security. Design and manage core AWS infrastructure via Terraform and Terragrunt. Build and operate robust Kubernetes, GitOps and observability tooling”
What You'll Achieve.
Product teams can ship to production independently using self-service platform capabilities, without needing direct support from Platform Engineering; Platform standards (infrastructure, deployment, security) are widely adopted across teams; Changes to the platform measurably improve developer experience and delivery speed; Incidents are reduced over time through better system design, observability, and guardrails; Infrastructure is scalable, cost-efficient, and secure by default, with clear trade-offs made where needed
Industry & Context.
Relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo
On-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Production experience running Kubernetes at scale, Proven ability to improve developer experience and platform adoption across teams, Deep cloud experience, ideally on AWS, Infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform, Hands-on experience with a modern observability stack including Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Modern CI/CD experience: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Flux, Comfort scripting in at least one of the following: TypeScript/Node, Python or Go, A solid grounding in Linux, networking, and security fundamentals
Nice to Have
Terragrunt a bonus
What You'll Do.
Design and manage core AWS infrastructure via Terraform and Terragrunt
Build and operate robust Kubernetes
GitOps and observability tooling
Shape how engineering teams ship to production
canary deploys and fast
Bake security into the SDLC
OIDC-based cloud access
secret scanning and pre-merge controls
Partner with engineering teams on infrastructure
database and deployment best practices
Provide and continuously improve CI/CD and developer tooling
Share an on-call rotation with the team
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with engineering teams on infrastructure, database and deployment best practices; Working closely with our Security team; Work in small teams of exceptional people
Full Job Description
ABOUT LENDABLE Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start: - One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 700 people - Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK - Profitable since 2017 - Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs - Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/lendable.co.uk) So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days. We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes. JOIN US IF YOU WANT TO 1. Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1 2. Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo 3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help us scale the multi-account AWS platforms that now power Lendable products across the UK, US and Mexico, supporting the hundreds of engineers shipping on top of them. You'll be joining a Platform Engineering team of eight, reporting to our Platform Engineering Manager. This is a senior, hands-on role in a production environment where minutes of downtime translate directly into customer impact. You'll take ownership of key parts of our platform, driving technical direction and making pragmatic trade-offs between reli
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