Platform Engineer

Why do we exist?

Our mission is to enable banks and other financial companies of any size globally to implement delightful mobile and web experiences for their customers and provide them with the foundation for success beyond fast-time-to-market.

We provide a Digital Banking Experience Platform that combines the best of the buy and build worlds, reducing the time and effort of building modern digital banking experiences up to 80% faster.

Who are we?

Our name is derived from Plumeria, a beautiful flower growing in many tropical countries and considered a sacred plant in some of them. Plumeria symbolises new beginnings, dedication, and beauty. Our mission reflects this symbolism as we pave a new way for how banking is experienced by millions of people globally, with unconditional commitment and meticulous attention to every detail of what we do.

• We are banking rebels changing how banking is done for over two decades.
• Our founders and leadership team were part of building two banking unicorns, defining new categories in the industry.
• Plumery was founded by Ben Goldin, ex-Chief Product & Technology Officer of Mambu, the leading cloud core banking platform, and ex-Chief Architect of Backbase, a global engagement banking provider for financial institutions. Ben has 20+ years of experience building products and technology for banks and other financial institutions.
• Plumery is backed by world-class investors (Headline, BTV, Seedcamp) and amazing business angels, such as Ricky Knox, founder of Tandem Bank, Didier Valet, ex-Deputy CEO Société Générale Group, Charlie Songhurst ex-Head of Strategy Microsoft, Alan Morgan ex-Senior Partner McKinsey & Company, Nathaniel Harley Co-Founder and CEO of MANTL and others.

About the Platform Team

We are the backbone of Plumery, providing a robust and reliable platform that empowers our product teams to build and deploy amazing things. We’re obsessed with automation, performance, and security, and we believe in the power of cloud-native technologies to drive innovation.

Your Mission

As a Platform Engineer, you will be a key player in building and maintaining the foundation upon which Plumery’s success is built. Your mission is to:

• Ensure Plumery’s platform is a rock: You’ll be responsible for the availability, performance, and scalability of our infrastructure, ensuring zero downtime and seamless scaling.
• Champion a culture of collaboration: You’ll work closely with product teams, understanding their needs and enabling them to deliver features faster and more efficiently.
• Automate everything: You’ll embrace Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices to automate infrastructure changes, ensuring consistency and repeatability.
• Be a knowledge leader: You’ll continuously learn and share your expertise with the team and the wider organisation, promoting best practices and improving our collective knowledge.

What You Bring to the Table

• Platform building expertise: You have a proven track record of designing, building, securing, and supporting platforms at scale for both product and infrastructure.
• IaC and GitOps mastery: Terraform is your weapon of choice, and you’re fluent in the language of IaC and GitOps.
• Cloud-native expert: You have a deep understanding of cloud-native applications, distributed systems, and microservices architectures.
• Public cloud proficiency: You’re comfortable navigating multiple public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), with experience in managed Kubernetes services.
• Automation enthusiast: You can automate tasks effectively using Go and/or Python.
• Kubernetes expert: You have hands-on experience managing applications on Kubernetes.
• Networking specialist: You have a strong grasp of public cloud networking concepts, with a focus on security and Kubernetes service meshes.
• Data management: You have experience managing databases, streaming, and messaging services.
• Security advocate: You have a deep understanding of public cloud security and Kubernetes security, including best practices for securing infrastructure, applications, and data. You have experience with security tools and technologies such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, encryption, and identity and access management. You are familiar with Well-Architected Frameworks and compliance frameworks like ISO27001, SOC2.
• Observability expert: You have a deep understanding of observability practices and tools, including monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging.

What Your Colleagues Would Say About You

• Team player: You thrive in a collaborative environment and are passionate about fostering technical excellence.
• Adaptable and open to change: You embrace new challenges and are always willing to learn and grow.
• Driven to make a difference: You’re motivated to make a real impact and are always looking for ways to improve.
• Innovative and curious: You’re not afraid to experiment with new technologies and challenge the status quo.

Why should you join Plumery?

• Work with a team of highly passionate people where every person is appreciated and respected.
• Be part of changing how banking is done globally.
• Enjoy a unique opportunity to influence and shape the trajectory of Plumery, making a substantial impact on our future growth and development.
• Maintain work-life balance as we prioritize efficiency over long working hours.
• Gain significant equity upside as one of Plumery’s foundational team members.

In addition, we are proud to offer full remote work flexibility. We believe that remote work fosters greater productivity, work-life balance, and employee well-being.

Join us and help build the future of Plumery!