Senior Platform Engineer - Fintech - Remote UK
Tymit, United Kingdom
Job Description
About Tymit
At Tymit our mission is to give people the self-confidence to live life to the fullest by offering them credit that's smart, flexible and honest.
That's why we launched the world's first instalment credit card and why we're now partnering with only the most iconic brands to bring the next generation of instalment experiences to their customers.
We believe that everyone deserves financial peace of mind, that credit should only work for you, and that tech will continue to transform the way to shop, pay and manage our spending.
Our talented and growing team is based in the UK, Spain and Greece, and we're all committed to creating a diverse, fun work environment, with collaboration and the customer at the core of everything we do.
Following our 23m Series A round, closed in October 2022 and led by Frasers Group, we're focused on our next phase of growth - and creating the future of instalment experiences.
Compensation amp; Perks
The salary range of this role is 80,000 - 90,000 per annum, depending on experience.
25 days of paid holiday plus bank holidays.
Your birthday off.
Tymit is working fully remote, and all employees can remain working from home if they want, travelling to our offices when agreed with the team.
If your preference is working from our office and working onsite with other Tymiteers, we have you covered with our offices in Madrid and London.
Flexible working hours.
Additional days to attend conferences and workshops related to technology and/or events related to Tymit’s industry and sector.
Budget for remote home expenses and home office set-up.
Learning amp; Development is a big asset for us, and we count on a yearly budget.
Private health insurance.
Referral program.
About the role
We're looking for a Platform Engineer, a passionate person with some experience working in a Platform team following a DevOps philosophy. You will help us improve our platform, improving developers' experience, reliability and scalability using a lean approach.
You will work with a techie, multi-disciplinary and lovers team which will give support across the company and integrate with all squads! We need you to help us with very attractive challenges in order to help Tymit scale to the numbers of users we are aiming for; in reliability, scalability, observability, and security!
We need you to help us with the main task: Apps migrations from clusters technologies (field project AWS ECS!), with the challenges, that this implies on Monitoring/Insights, Configuration, Logging, zero-downtime upgrades, CI/CD, all around this new technology which is being an amazing journey of tech learning and problem-solving.
About the culture
Be ready to join a company where collaboration is key. You will be expected to share knowledge and speak up, at the same time you have the ability to listen to others and consider their opinions. At Tymit we are also big fans of a good atmosphere and humour, prepare yourself to receive a bunch of GIFs.
Platform Engineers at Tymit collaborate with different squads giving support to Engineering areas. Within the team, you will find Fran, Diego, Héctor, Raul, Alejandro and Carl.
During your time at Tymit you will
- Deliver and maintain required AWS infrastructure on the Squads following secure good configuration practices using IaC.
- Integrate with engineering teams to cultivate with them and to create full CI/CD Pipelines with the required instrumentation; plus the required Infrastructure to deploy Tymit Microservices stack into our AWS ECS Fargate Clusters.
- As a Senior role, you will help to define (SLIs, SLOs, etc.) and implement the observability (metrics, alerts, dashboards, etc..) in collaboration with other teams with business parameters.
- Provide architectural design support to teams in the initial phases of new services, and review any security concerns that may scale from those.
- As guardians of the security in Tymit; you will have to review/tweak/implement AWS services and human access policies in AWS IAM and AWS SSO.
- Due to PCI Compliance requirements (being a regulated company) and as part of the Seniority of the role, you will have to babysit the different vulnerability testing/penetration testing around our Infrastructure + Services and plan contingencies from potential negative results.
- As a Senior role, we expect you to give support and break silos to different teams with different domains (QA, Data Engineers, Backend engineers, Mobile, Data/Analytics, etc.), in order to break the ice on different technologies they could require some help on (i.e. Taurus, Vegeta, AWS Sagemaker, K6, etc.).
In one month
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