Senior Platform Engineer

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 newest unicorns with a team of just over 700 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)

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.

1. Take ownership across a broad remit. 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, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo

3. Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help us scale the multi-account AWS platforms that now power Lendable products across the UK, US and Mexico, supporting the hundreds of engineers shipping on top of them.

You'll be joining a Platform Engineering team of eight, reporting to our Platform Engineering Manager. This is a senior, hands-on role in a production environment where minutes of downtime translate directly into customer impact. You'll take ownership of key parts of our platform, driving technical direction and making pragmatic trade-offs between reliability, cost, and developer experience. We build with self-service in mind, creating paved roads, abstractions, and guardrails that enable product teams to move fast without needing to understand the underlying complexity.

• Design and manage core AWS infrastructure via Terraform and Terragrunt

• Build and operate robust Kubernetes, GitOps and observability tooling

• Shape how engineering teams ship to production, progressive rollouts, canary deploys and fast, safe rollbacks

• Bake security into the SDLC, policy-as-code, OIDC-based cloud access, secret scanning and pre-merge controls, working closely with our Security team

• Partner with engineering teams on infrastructure, database and deployment best practices

• Provide and continuously improve CI/CD and developer tooling

• Share an on-call rotation with the team, supported by the observability and tooling you help build

• We make use of AI-assisted tooling (e.g. code generation, debugging, and platform operations). You’re either already comfortable working this way, or excited to adopt it.

• Production experience running Kubernetes at scale, not just deploying to it, but operating it.

• Proven ability to improve developer experience and platform adoption across teams

• Deep cloud experience, ideally on AWS.

• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform (Terragrunt a bonus).

• Hands-on experience with a modern observability stack including Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana.

• Modern CI/CD experience: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Flux.

• Comfort scripting in at least one of the following: TypeScript/Node, Python or Go.

• A solid grounding in Linux, networking, and security fundamentals.

We don't expect every box to be ticked. If most of this sounds like you, we'd like to hear from you.

• Product teams can ship to production independently using self-service platform capabilities, without needing direct support from Platform Engineering

• Platform standards (infrastructure, deployment, security) are widely adopted across teams

• Changes to the platform measurably improve developer experience and delivery speed

• Incidents are reduced over time through better system design, observability, and guardrails

• Infrastructure is scalable, cost-efficient, and secure by default, with clear trade-offs made where needed

• Cloud & compute: AWS (multi-account, multi-region), EKS with Karpenter and KEDA

• IaC: Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm

• CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts

• Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana

• Security: HashiCorp Vault, Kyverno, Checkov, Aikido

• Databases: PostgreSQL and MySQL

• Developer platform: Backstage

• AI tooling: Claude Code, Cursor, Augment

• Tooling we build ourselves: TypeScript

• Intro call with Talent Team

• Hiring Manager call - 30 minutes

• Tech interview - Solution Design - 2 hours

• Culture Interview with our VP of Technology - 45 minutes

• 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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