Staff Engineer (Infrastructure)

The Infrastructure team is responsible for operating and maintaining a scalable, secure and performant cloud platform to support our engineering organisation 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.

• Design, build and operate production-grade AWS infrastructure within a Fintech environment.

• Influence and contribute to the technical direction and roadmap across engineering. Collaborate across teams to deliver high-impact technical outcomes.

• Mentor junior Engineers, to actively support their development.

• Be an individual contributor to our infrastructure code - raising the bar in terms of reliability, quality, security and cost optimisation.

• Take ownership of important components within our infrastructure architecture such as CI/CD, observability, container orchestration, disaster recovery, identity & access management, or cloud networking.

• Operational excellence - respond to incidents and participate in the Infrastructure team on-call rotation.

• 8+ years experience of professional software engineering.

• Excellent communication skills, fluent in written and spoken English - it is our business language.

• Recent experience in platform/SRE/infrastructure space, working across engineering teams to improve delivery. Experience of SaaS and/or Fintech is a bonus.

• Deep technical expertise in infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration and cloud architecture.

• Prior experience in backend software development - we’re looking for someone who can collaborate and deliver projects that span across the application & Infrastructure teams.

• Pragmatic mindset - ability to adapt to change, navigate ambiguity, take the initiative and proactively solve issues.

• 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.

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! 

We believe that people do their best work when they’re given the freedom to thrive and grow. That’s why liberation is at the core of everything we do. We empower Spendeskers to take ownership of their work, to navigate ambiguity, and seize every opportunity. Spendeskers come from all over the world (35+ countries and counting!) but we have plenty in common: we're bold, ever-curious, committed to kindness, and tackle every challenge with a positive mindset. 

Our culture is built on trust, empowerment, and growth — with benefits to match!

-Fully covered Oyster card for traveling to and from our new office (up to £250 monthly depending on location)

-£45 monthly wellness allowance, accruable, to be used on whatever wellness means to you - through the Ben platform

- Access to Moka.care for emotional and mental health wellbeing

- Pension scheme (on salary sacrifice): 5% employee / 5% employer (by Aviva)

- 28 days of holidays

- Latest Apple Mac equipment 

- Company virtual events

- Visit our other offices: Paris, Berlin & Hamburg

- Great office snacks to fuel your day

- A positive team to work with daily!

- Vitality private health insurance (for you and your family/partner)

- Bupa private dental care

At Spendesk, we're committed to fostering an environment where all differences are encouraged, supported and celebrated. We're building our culture for everyone, with everyone. Our goal is to attract and build a diverse, equal and inclusive team, where everyone feels welcome and we truly embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.