Platform Engineer
Lendable · London, England
ABOUT LENDABLE
Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:
- One of the UK’s most exciting unicorns with a team of over 800 people
- Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK
- Profitable since 2017
- Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs
- Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/lendable.co.uk)
So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.
We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.
JOIN US IF YOU WANT TO
1. Take ownership: you are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1
2. Work in small teams of exceptional people: Lendies are relentlessly resourceful. We challenge the status quo to solve problems and find smarter solutions
3. Build the best technology in-house: we use new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting
ROLE OVERVIEW
We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to help build and operate the multi-account AWS platforms that power Lendable’s products. You’ll join a Platform Engineering team of eight and work closely with product engineering teams across the business.
This is a hands-on production role where reliability and fast recovery matter. You’ll contribute to the design, delivery and operation of platform capabilities, working with more experienced engineers to make our systems safer, easier to use and more efficient.
We build with self-service in mind: creating paved roads, useful abstractions and sensible guardrails so product teams can move quickly without needing to understand all the underlying complexity.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
BUILD AND OPERATE THE PLATFORM
- Build, configure and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt, with support from the wider Platform Engineering team
- Help operate Kubernetes, GitOps and observability tooling in production
- Investigate and resolve platform issues, contributing to incident response and post-incident improvements
- Share an on-call rotation with the team
ENABLE SAFE, FAST DELIVERY
- Support progressive rollouts, canary deployments and safe rollbacks
- Contribute to CI/CD and developer tooling that improves the engineering experience
- Partner with engineering teams on infrastructure, database and deployment best practices
- Help improve self-service capabilities and platform adoption across teams
BUILD SECURITY INTO EVERYDAY ENGINEERING
- Apply security practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle
- Contribute to policy-as-code, OIDC-based cloud access, secret scanning and pre-merge controls
- Work with the Platform Engineering and Security teams to improve the safety of our systems
KEEP LEARNING AND IMPROVING
- Use AI-assisted tooling for code generation, debugging and platform operations
- Share knowledge through documentation, pairing and constructive code reviews
- Build the confidence to take on increasing ownership of platform components over time
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE
- Practical experience deploying and supporting applications running on Kubernetes
- Experience working with a cloud platform, ideally AWS
- Working knowledge of infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform
- Experience with modern CI/CD tooling
- Comfort scripting in at least one of TypeScript/Node, Python or Go
- A good grounding in Linux, networking and security fundamentals
- Experience troubleshooting production systems and working through operational issues
USEFUL EXPERIENCE
- Terragrunt or Helm
- GitHub Actions, ArgoCD or Flux
- Datadog, Prometheus or Grafana
- PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Supporting developer-experience or internal-platform improvements
- Working with security tooling or policy-as-code
We don’t expect every box to be ticked. If you have a strong foundation, practical production experience and the curiosity to keep learning, we’d like to hear from you.
INTERVIEW PROCESS
1. Intro call with Talent Team (20 min)
2. Cognitive Test (15 min)
3. Hiring Manager call (30 min)
4. Practical platform and solution-design interview (2 hours)
5. Culture interview (45 min)
LIFE AT LENDABLE
- Winning team: the opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies
- Flexible working: flexible approach tailored to each role. Hybrid roles require three days in-office weekly; fully remote roles include regular opportunities for in-person connection through socials and off-sites
- Socials & connection: opportunities and events to come together, socialise, and get to know each other beyond the office walls
- Health coverage: support for your physical and mental wellbeing, including private health cover
- Retirement & savings: long-term financial wellbeing through retirement savings plans
- Employee referral programme: earn a competitive bonus when you refer successful new team members
- Office meals & snacks: enjoy a fully stocked kitchen, plus complimentary lunches prepared by in-house chefs on in-office days at select locations
- Sustainable commuting: cycle-to-work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes available in select locations
Please note: The availability and details of specific benefits vary by location and role. For more information, please speak to your Talent Partner.
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