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 revolutionising banking infrastructure?

Are you keen to work with the most cutting edge technologies in the DevOps space, withing a genuinely AI first prod enviornment?

My client is creating the first open-source "Thin Ledger" to replace legacy core systems with a modern, event-driven platform powered by Golang, 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:

• Deep experience with multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure

• Event Streaming (Kafka)

• Distributed Systems (CockroachDB, YugabyteDB, Redis)

• GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux)

• IaC (Terraform)

• Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• 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

• Team regularly speaks and SRE/K8s conferences

• Working alongisde industry leaders within SRE

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!