The Infrastructure team is responsible for operating and maintaining a scalable, secure, and performant cloud platform to support our engineering organization and growing user base.
We are hiring a Staff Engineer (Infrastructure), who will have a strategic impact across multiple teams and technologies.
We are looking for a leader who can drive forward technical initiatives, both as an individual contributor and by growing other Engineers. This person will report to the Engineering Manager, Infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Technical Leadership: Design, build, and operate production-grade AWS infrastructure within a Fintech environment. Influence and contribute to the technical direction and roadmap across engineering.
2. Collaborate across teams to deliver high-impact technical outcomes.
3. Mentor junior Engineers to actively support their development.
4. Individual Contributor: Be an individual contributor to our infrastructure code - raising the bar in terms of reliability, quality, security, and cost optimization.
5. Take ownership of important components within our infrastructure architecture such as CI/CD, observability, container orchestration, disaster recovery, identity & access management, or cloud networking.
6. Operational excellence - respond to incidents and participate in the Infrastructure team on-call rotation.
What We're Looking For:
1. 8+ years experience of professional software engineering.
2. Excellent communication skills, fluent in written and spoken English - it is our business language.
3. Recent experience in platform/SRE/infrastructure space, working across engineering teams to improve delivery.
4. Experience of SaaS and/or Fintech is a bonus.
5. Deep technical expertise in infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, and cloud architecture.
6. Prior experience in backend software development - we're looking for someone who can collaborate and deliver projects that span across the application & Infrastructure teams.
7. Pragmatic mindset - ability to adapt to change, navigate ambiguity, take the initiative, and proactively solve issues.
Our Stack:
AWS as our cloud platform. Kubernetes for container orchestration. AWS RDS, Kafka, Elasticache, Terraform. Datadog for observability. GitHub for source code & CI/CD. Backend services are developed in NodeJS (Typescript). Frontend is React.
As we are an international team, please submit your application and CV in English.
About Spendesk
Spendesk is the 7-in-1 spending solution built for finance teams to make faster, smarter spending decisions. Founded in 2016, Spendesk is now one of the fastest-growing fintechs in Europe, with over 4,000 customers and an international team of 500+ employees based in Paris, Berlin, London, Hamburg, and remote. We've raised over €260M from leading investors and been named a French tech unicorn. And we're not stopping there!
About Our People & Culture
We believe that people do their best work when they're given the freedom to thrive and grow.
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