Lead Platform Engineer

💼 Lead Platform Engineer

👔 FinTech AI Startup

📍 London (fully onsite)

💵 £120-150k + Bonus

Are you keen to work for a rapidly scaling fintech startup who's AI-native, open-source technology is powering the next generation of financial infrasturcture?

Do you want to work on groundbreaking distributed systems powering a platform processing billions of transactions with microsend-level performance?

My client is creating the first open-source “Thin Ledger” to replace legacy core systems with a modern, event-driven platform powered by Kubernetes, Kafka and multi-region Databases.

They are now seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to own platform engineering for a mission-critical operating environment, ensuring resilience, security, and compliance at scale.

Required Skills:

• 'AI-First' approach (leveraging LLMs constantly)

• Deep experience with multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure

• GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux)

• Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• IaC (Terraform)

• Distributed Systems (CockroachDB, YugabyteDB, Redis)

• Event Streaming (Kafka)

• Strong SRE mindset (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets)

In return they would be offering a competitive salary along with a number of great benefits:

Benefits:

• Bonus

• Private Healthcare

• 25 days AL

• Matched Pension

• L&D Fund

• AI-native envitonment with modern workflows

• Strong in-person collaboration and upskilling

• Working alongside industry leaders who regularly speak at conferences

If you’re excited to build resilient, secure infrastructure for regulated, high-scale environments and want to work at the cutting edge of AI-powered operations, apply now!