Senior Platform Engineer

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About Us

You Lend is a rapidly growing Fin Tech that is the preferred embedded financing platform for many of the world's leading e-commerce platforms, tech companies, and Payment Service Providers. Our software platform enables our partners to extend their value proposition by offering flexible financing products in their own branding, to their merchant base, without capital  are owned by the leading Private Equity company, EQT, and have grown +100% year-on-year since 2020.

We are headquartered in London, UK, but are also present in several European countries as well as the United States where we service our partners, including eBay, Amazon, Just Eat, Shopify, and Stripe.

We're seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Dev Enablement team, where you'll help empower product engineers to deliver high-quality code faster and more reliably. You'll build systems that improve developer productivity, streamline CI/CD, and enhance infrastructure efficiency, while leading through technical excellence, collaboration, and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, and Azure Dev Ops.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform, Pulumi, Helm, and Kubernetes.
• Standardise and enforce platform engineering practices across environments (development, staging, production).
• Collaborate with developers to enhance development workflows and reduce friction in delivery pipelines.
• Own and evolve test automation strategies and tools used across engineering teams.
• Contribute to strategic technical direction and roadmap discussions for your team and platform area.
• Support and lead incident response efforts, including root cause analysis and postmortems.
• Document and evangelise internal tools and best practices to ensure wide adoption.

The ideal candidate will have the following skillset

• Strong software engineering experience, including backend development in languages like C#, Python, or Type Script.
• Hands‑on experience building CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation in AWS environments.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS preferred), Helm, and Git Ops practices.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure using AWS services including VPC, EC2, IAM, Lambda, S3, EKS, and Control Tower.
• Experience with observability and monitoring stacks (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus).
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and ability to lead the resolution of complex technical challenges.
• Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers within a team.

Desirable skills

• Experience in performance optimisation and stress testing distributed systems.
• Knowledge of cloud cost optimisation strategies.
• Exposure to integrating security tooling into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.

• Award‑Winning Workplace:
  You Lend has been recognised as one of the "Best Places to Work in 2024 and 2025" by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace.
• Award‑Winning Fintech:
  You Lend has been recognised as a "Top 250 Fintech Worldwide" company by CNBC.

It's just getting fun

• We have developed powerful solutions, won some significant partnerships, and are growing at a rapid pace.
• But the global opportunity is still massive, and You Lend is a raw organisation where we are only just getting started.

Lots of upsides

• High‑growth (>100% growth during 2022 and 2023), so clear outlook to compensation (bonus or share option appreciation) and career growth (through growth with business).
• Well‑capitalised with supportive private equity backing.
• Part of Banking Circle Group with a fully licensed Luxembourg bank, which can provide a balance sheet and support European expansion in otherwise complex regulated markets.

Motivating work environment

• A high‑quality team that pushes each other to succeed through direct feedback and aligned incentives.
• Strong and transparent team culture, we have each other's backs.
• Independent work environment where results…