Platform Engineer at Banked

Job Description:

About the role and the team

We're looking for someone who shares our vision, who identifies with our desire to reinvent payments and will help guide us through our growth to directly compete with Visa and Mastercard.

You'll participate in the direction of the company and products, you'll be part of small team where everyone has a voice.

As a Platform Engineer at Banked, you'll be building the foundation of our system. You'll use Go and its ecosystem to build observability tools, core modules and services that will ensure the reliability of our mission-critical system and API's.

You'll empower other engineers to build scalable, reliable, and observable systems. You'll also solve a series of interesting technical problems.

We don't expect people to be experts with all of the technology we use or to immediately be able to pickup all the tasks we might ask of them. We want to build an environment where people can learn and grow openly, where failure is accepted as a part of learning and there's enough to support to help people be successful.

You will:

• Work to improve all aspects of application reliability, including monitoring, alerting, and deployment
• Build tools, modules and services to improve our system's reliability, scalability, and observability and work with the engineering teams to utilize them.
• Help the team improve engineering standards, tooling, and process through mentoring, guidance, and collaboration
• Be part of the first response team in dealing with incidents and issues our platform
• Help the engineering teams troubleshoot in complex environments using the monitoring tools
• Help build a culture of DevOps in engineering, where engineers own their code throughout its lifetime
• Work with other engineers and product managers across the company to prioritise, build, measure, and iterate new features/products

You may be a good fit if you have:

• Significant experience in communicating and working with software teams, and working towards building inclusive, fun environments
• Experience building tools and services in mission-critical, distributed systems
• Experience with public cloud environments - Google Cloud is an advantage
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with troubleshooting performance problems and system outages.
• Commercial experience in Go

Any combination of the following would make your application stand out:

• Experience working in regulated environments, like fintech
• Experience working with open telemetry tools
• Experience working with Prometheus Stack
• Experience with event-driven architectures

Company Benefits

• Equity potential
• Laptop
• Work from home bonus
• Remote working

Interview Process

The interview process will focus on three areas: your experience building products and taking on technical challenges; your technical skills; and how you'll fit in culturally with the rest of the team.

We want to take your time seriously, and use as little of it as possible to make our decision. We will also commit to giving you constructive, meaningful feedback whether we decide to move forward together or not.

1.An initial phone or video call (your preference) with the Engineering Lead to outline the company and the role, and for you to share your career experience. If there's a good fit to move forward, we'll continue with a technical interview. 2.A technical interview with the Engineering Lead alongside another member of the team. It's a chance for you to share your technical knowledge in a little more depth. We'll outline a few high level technical problems and discuss possible solutions together. 3.A technical interview with our VP Engineering, focused more on system architecture. 4.A final stage for you to talk with our Head of People about the high level direction of the company, what you want to achieve with your career and how Banked can help you achieve it. At this point we should have enough information to make you an offer, should it be appropriate.