Platform Engineer 60-90k Hybrid working
SeedLegals, United Kingdom
Job Description
At SeedLegals, we're on a mission to make legal work a breeze for startups and small businesses worldwide. Our tech-driven approach has already helped over 50,000 founders across the UK, France, Ireland, Hong Kong and Singapore close funding rounds, hire employees, and grant share options to their teams, to name just a few.
We're seeking talented platform engineers to join one of our engineering team. Working alongside our CTO, Head of Cloud, and other engineers, you'll have the autonomy to drive improvements in the infrastructure, reliability, and security of our platform.
This is also a unique opportunity to gain extensive knowledge of the startup world, VC fundraising, investor tax schemes, and more. As you work on complex projects, you'll also gain invaluable domain knowledge that could prepare you for entrepreneurship yourself.
We're an international team of 17 developers from 12 countries, with a hybrid working model that allows for flexibility and collaboration.
Requirements
We’d love to hear from you if...
- You're driven to solve complex problems and optimising system performance.
- You have strong experience in developing and managing infrastructure on cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
- You're proficient with infrastructure-as-code principles and practical experience using tools like Terraform.
- You have knowledge and experience with monitoring and alerting tools to maintain system health and performance.
- You have a strong understanding of Linux operating system fundamentals.
- You have a proven record in designing dataflow solutions that move data between internal and third party systems, via services using APIs or workflow automation tools (e.g. n8n)
And if you can hit one or two of these as well, even better...
- Familiarity with the Agile manifesto and methodologies.
- Experience in developing production-quality software using languages such as Java, Kotlin, or Python.
Your responsibilities would be...
- Design, implement, and manage highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions on cloud platforms, with a focus on AWS.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform to automate provisioning and deployments.
- Ensure the security, availability, and performance of the infrastructure components and systems.
- Monitor, analyse, and optimise system performance to meet service-level objectives.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to the platform and infrastructure.
Benefits
As part of the SeedLegals team, you get:
- Share options: the option to buy shares in SeedLegals in the future, via our share option scheme
- Pension
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + your birthday off
- 3 volunteer days per year: time off to support a charity or not-for-profit organisation you care about.
- Private healthcare
- Life insurance and critical illness cover
- Classpass: discounted access to studios, gyms, salons and spas near you
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Weekly allowance for a free lunch in the office once a week
- 250 WFH allowance to set up or enhance your home workstation
- Annual learning budget for training courses, conferences and books
About SeedLegals
We’re the leading provider of automated legal solutions for startups in the UK, with offices in London and Paris, and a team in Ireland.
We believe entrepreneurship should be accessible to everyone. Since we launched in 2016, we’ve served more than 50,000 companies and startups have raised more than 1.5 billion on our platform. We’ve changed how early-stage companies fundraise, reward their teams and scale their businesses.
Our Values
- We invest and trust in each other
- We’re committed to a growth mindset
- We embrace diversity and cultivate inclusion
- We’re driven by customer success
Our Interview Process:
- 1) ~40min initial conversation (video call)
- 2) A ~1.5hr technical interview.