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Lendable is a UK fintech unicorn (700+ employees) on a mission to rebuild consumer finance products with modern technology. The company is profitable since 2017, backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs, and has achieved strong market traction with 4.9-star Trustpilot ratings. They've rebuilt loans, credit cards, and car finance from scratch, getting money to customers in minutes instead of days, and are expanding into the UK and US markets.
You'll join a Platform Engineering team of eight as a hands-on Platform Engineer responsible for building and operating the multi-account AWS infrastructure that powers Lendable's products. This is a production-focused role where reliability and fast recovery are critical.
Key responsibilities include:
- Build, configure, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt
- Operate Kubernetes, GitOps, and observability tooling in production
- Investigate and resolve platform issues, participate in incident response and post-incident improvements
- Share an on-call rotation with the team
- Support progressive rollouts, canary deployments, and safe rollbacks
- Contribute to CI/CD and developer tooling improvements
- Partner with engineering teams on infrastructure, database, and deployment best practices
- Improve self-service capabilities and platform adoption
- Apply security practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle
- Contribute to policy-as-code, OIDC-based cloud access, and secret scanning
- Use AI-assisted tooling for code generation, debugging, and platform operations
- Share knowledge through documentation, pairing, and code reviews
The role emphasizes building with self-service in mind—creating paved roads, useful abstractions, and sensible guardrails so product teams can move quickly without needing to understand all underlying complexity.
REQUIREMENTS:
Essential Experience:
- Practical experience deploying and supporting applications running on Kubernetes
- Experience working with a cloud platform, ideally AWS
- Working knowledge of infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform
- Experience with modern CI/CD tooling
- Comfort scripting in at least one of TypeScript/Node, Python, or Go
- Good grounding in Linux, networking, and security fundamentals
- Experience troubleshooting production systems and working through operational issues
Useful Experience:
- Terragrunt or Helm
- GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or Flux
- Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana
- PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Supporting developer-experience or internal-platform improvements
- Working with security tooling or policy-as-code
The company notes they don't expect every box to be ticked. If you have a strong foundation, practical production experience, and curiosity to keep learning, they'd like to hear from you.
