Summary
A senior platform engineering opportunity within a rapidly growing financial technology environment. You will manage and improve infrastructure supporting software, analytics, and machine-learning platforms, with a strong focus on reliability, security, fault tolerance, performance, and scale.
Highlights
Work on mission-critical platforms in a high-growth fintech environment, improving performance, security, resilience, scalability, and operational efficiency.
Description
Who We Are
We're one of Europe's fastest-growing fintech companies – on a mission to create the world's most empowering way to pay.
We launched the product in 2020 and achieved double unicorn status, valued at $2 billion, and since then have taken on more than 6 million customers.
Our mission is to become the best way to pay for anything, anywhere and say goodbye to credit costs for everyone.
This is huge.
Want to join us?
The Role
The Platform Engineer at Zilch plays a crucial role in managing and maintaining the underlying technology infrastructure of our Software, Analytics and ML platforms.
Your primary responsibility will be to ensure that the platform runs efficiently, securely, and at scale.
Day To Day Responsibilities
Working in an agile environment on systems that are critical for our customersSupporting and optimising our critical systems for performance, fault- tolerance, security, reliable and costContinually improving our systems, our practices, and our knowledgeWorking with our databases and data to ensure we store and process information securely and effectivelyAssist in ad-hoc technology support and technology related duties
We're Looking For
Someone who has bags of energy and is passionate.An engineer who is wholehearted about keeping critical systems hummingAn enthusiast who lives and breathes systems, and obsesses about uptime and reliability4+ years experience supporting SQL Databases4+ years experience supporting Kubernetes4+ years experience supporting AWS systems including CloudFront, API Gateway, NLB, RDS, and Aurora (or Azure/GCP)Experience of supporting LinuxKnowledge of supporting caching systems like Redis or MemcachedKnowledge of supporting REST integrated systemsWorking understanding and knowledge of Terraform and IaC concepts
Bonus Skills
Experience with Java developmentExperience with Python developmentExposure to NoSQL type databases (e.g mongo dB)Experience with Data Platform technologies (e.g Redshift, Airflow, Sagemaker)Exposure to Agentic workflows (e.g.
Bedrock)Exposure to Policy as Code (e.g.
Cedar, OPA)
Benefits.
Compensation & Savings
Pension scheme.Death in Service scheme.Income Protection.Permanent employees enjoy access to our Share Options Scheme.5% back on in-app purchases.£200 for WFH Setup.
Health & Wellbeing
Private Medical Insurance including;GP consultations (video, telephone or face-to-face).Prescribed medication.In-patient, day-patient and out-patient care.Mental health support.Optical, dental & audiological cover.Physiotherapy.Advanced cancer cover.Menopause support.Employee Assistance Programme including:Unlimited mental health sessions.24/7 remote GP & physiotherapy.24/7 helpline for emotional & practical support.Savings & discounts on everyday shopping.1:1 personalised well-being consultations.Gym membership discounts.
Family Friendly Policies
Enhanced maternity pay.Enhanced paternity pay.Enhanced adoption pay.Enhanced shared parental leave.
Learning & Development
Professional Qualifications.Professional Memberships.Learning Suite for e-courses.Internal Training Programmes.FCA & Regulatory training.
Workplace Perks
Hybrid working: office-based Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday; remote working Tuesday and FridayCasual dress code.Workplace socials.Healthy snacks.
