What you can expect to be doing:

• Senior Platform Engineer responsibilities include deploying product updates, identifying issues and implementing integrations that meet customer needs.
• Empower developers to take ownership of the operation, performance and availability of their services
• Design, write and deliver software that improves the lives of our engineers and the scalability of our platform
• Take ownership of our Kubernetes platform roadmap and all of our application CI/CD infrastructure and default pipelines
• Take part in our on-call rota
• Creating and delivering well-scoped tickets to provision and configure infrastructure, pipeline and platform requirements
• Interested in the root cause of incidents and outages and improving our time between incidents and MTTR
• Comfortable in automating processes and constantly finding new areas to automate or make more efficient
• Maintenance and patching of our AWS Estate
• Tracking incidents, occurrences and MTTR
• Deployment frequency and failure rate tracking
• Dashboards and management information
  

What we’re really looking for:

• Scripting experience: Bash, Python, GoLang
• Infrastructure Experience: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation
• Cloud Service Providers: AWS (Azure or GCP is fine too)
• Container / Container Orchestration experience: Docker (e.g. ECS, EKS, Rancher, Kubernetes, etc)
• Experience deploying containers into highly automated AWS environments
• Experience with DNS management (Route53, especially with split horizon)
• Experience defining and deploying secure IAM access controls across hub-and-spoke accounts, with a strong understanding of federated protocols
• Security awareness (access controls, deep packet inspection, security groups, network ACLs)
• Understanding of Microservice Architecture / Mesh technologies and how to deploy/manage them
  

What we’re really looking for: âœï¸

Someone with a genuine interest in Chip and is excited about being part of a fast-growing company and our mission to build the investment super app of the future.

Although we’re in the financial space, and under the scrutiny that comes with it, the current platform team works well together, and even sometimes with a smile. We’re sure you’ve got the technical skills, otherwise, you would have stopped reading by now, so let us be clear on what will make us want to work with you.

We want a real person, with interests outside of work, to join our team. You could be a dancer, a gamer, a musician, a parent, a hockey fan, or even that one person that still writes Twilight fan-fiction. Doesn’t matter to us.

At the interview stages, we will be looking for empathy, eq, fun stories, and the ability to smile even when things are tough. 

PERKS ðŸŽ

• £70,000 - £80,000 per annum depending on experience
• Discretionary share option bonus every 6 months
• Workplace pension scheme (Employer: 3% / Employee: 4% / Tax Relief: 1% / Total: 8%)
• Free ChipX subscription for UK-based employees
• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity
• Flexible working arrangements
• Unlimited holiday (policy not to count) ✈️
• Working away policy which allows you to work outside the UK for up to 90 days 
• Annual £1500 Personal Learning Allowance
• Chip Fitness benefit to suit your Mental/Physical Wellbeing
• Company laptop
• Opportunity to have a huge impact on our product while fast-tracking your knowledge, responsibility and skills in a high-growth fintech startup 🚀

Our Interview Process: ðŸ“–

1. Video Screen with someone from our Talent team
2. Video interview with the hiring manager
3. Video Interview with some of the team
4. Final interview with HR and Product Manager