Senior Platform Engineer (Developer Experience)
ClearBank, United Kingdom

About Us

ClearBank was built on the belief that banking infrastructure would no longer slow down progress. Instead, it’s the catalyst that unlocks the potential to innovate. That’s why our clients financial institutions from fintech’s and crypto platforms, to banks and credit unions use our API to power their banking infrastructure.

But we wouldn’t be ClearBank without our people. They’re what powers our innovative technology and the reason we love what we do every day. We’re a group of spirited people who are never afraid to challenge the norm becoming stronger, more energised, and that much better when we’re together. It’s our belief in fairness, autonomy and choice that means our people are empowered with the tools to learn, grow, and contribute to ours and our clients’ success. Interested in joining us? Read on or visit our website for more information.

About you

You’ll be joining the Developer Experience team in our DevEx hive as a Senior Platform Engineer. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you’ll be a part of a fast-growing business that is challenging the market and doing things differently.

As a senior member of the team, you’ll lead on larger initiatives, building platform features and engaging with teams on how to achieve the best outcomes. With the rest of the DevEx team, you’ll be responsible for the design and delivery of new tooling and features to our customers (internal development teams) as well as maintaining our existing platform to a high standard. You’ll excel at working with teams to understand their challenges, and delivering effective solutions, getting feedback, and continuously improving our development platform offering. You will have outstanding communication and leadership skills, able to engage in the full lifecycle with a product mindset. You’ll also enjoy ownership and accountability; experience of working in an environment where you’ve been responsible for your code all the way through to operating in production is a big plus.

And you’ll be joining the #14 fastest-growing tech company in the UK, according to Deloitte Fast 50

Requirements

You will be

• Leading on cross cutting initiatives to improve developer experience at ClearBank
• Building and maintaining a set of platform tools our development community use every day, and that are critical to our success in delivering core banking software to ClearBank’s customers.
• Collaborating with teams around the bank to understand challenges and deliver effective improvements to the Developer Experience.
• Working with an expansive array of tech day-to-day, using Azure, Azure DevOps, Backstage, Elastic, Kubernetes and more.
• Experimenting with different tools and processes to support continual internal innovation.
• Bringing new ideas and approaches to our Developers’ Experience.
• Supporting services from Development to Production via our team On-Call rota.
• Mentoring and supporting junior engineers

What we are looking for

• Experience consulting with teams or customers, leading change
• A background in DevOps or Platform Engineering
• Great knowledge of software engineering amp; the associated practices
• Experience of delivering software in cloud technologies Azure and AWS
• Solid experience with C# and Automated Testing
• Experience with Azure Pipelines, Azure Cloud and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Containers (Docker) and Kubernetes
• Operating observability tools (e.g. Elastic, Dynatrace, Azure App Insights)

It would be desirable if you have experience of the following.

• NodeJS, ReactJS, Typescript
• AKS
• GitOps and pull-based tooling
• Open Telemetry

Benefits

About what we offer

• At ClearBank we have a flexible working philosophy, empowering our employees to manage their time in a way which allows them to meet both work and personal commitments, in partnership with their line manager
• Spacious and well-equipped new offices in London and Bristol
• 27 days annual leave per year, plus flexible bank holidays
• The option to work outside of the UK for up to 30 days per year
• Regular company-wide socials
• Take a couple of days per year to volunteer with your chosen charity to do something bigger than ClearBank
• Private healthcare through Healix and discounted Bupa dental cover, with employee healthy living perks and discounts through YuLife
• Enhanced family-friendly leave
• Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to join an innovative team that’s building a bank fit for the future!

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