Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer (Software) | Developer Tooling Team - Fin Tech

Location:

London – 4 days a week in office (Paddington)

Here at Burns Sheehan, we’re working with a well-established, high-growth UK tech business in the payments and financial services space. Processing billions in transactions annually and supporting nearly 1 in 5 card payments across the UK, they're building out their core platform with a centralised infrastructure to support continued scale.

They’re looking for 2 Engineers to join their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) team – focused on internal tooling, infrastructure provisioning, and improving the developer experience across the business.

• Build tools and services that improve infrastructure workflows for engineering teams.
• Collaborate with senior engineers and product leads on design and implementation.
• Contribute to technical strategy, team mentoring, and engineering standards.
• Opportunity to work on open‑source projects focusing on AI agents.

• Strong software engineering background, ideally with Golang.
• Solid experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience in cloud environments – GCP preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable.
• Collaborative engineer who can mentor others and contribute to team direction.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

£35,000.00 – £45,000.00 (open to discussion)

If you're interested in building platform tools with real impact, in a stable and well-backed business with strong growth and a long‑term tech roadmap, get in touch to find out more.