Platform Lead - Fintech

At Tymit our mission is to give people the self-confidence to live life to the fullest by offering them credit that's smart, flexible and honest.

That's why we launched the world's first instalment credit card – and why we're now partnering with only the most iconic brands to bring the next generation of instalment experiences to their customers.

We believe that everyone deserves financial peace of mind, that credit should only work for you, and that tech will continue to transform the way to shop, pay and manage our spending.

Our talented and growing team is based in the UK, Spain and Greece, and we're all committed to creating a diverse, fun work environment, with collaboration and the customer at the core of everything we do.

Following our £23m Series A round, closed in October 2021 and led by Frasers Group, we're focused on our next phase of growth - and creating the future of instalment experiences.

Compensation & Perks

💰 The salary range of this role is 85k-95k€ per annum, depending on experience.

🏝 26 days of paid holiday plus bank holidays.

🥳 Your birthday off.

🏡 Tymit is working fully remote, and all employees can continue working from home if they want, travelling to our offices when agreed with the team.

⏰ Flexible working hours.

🤓 Additional days to attend conferences and workshops related to technology and/or events related to Tymit’s industry and sector.

💲 Budget for remote home expenses.

📚 Learning & Development is a big asset for us, and we count with a yearly budget.

🏥 Private health insurance.

👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏻 Referral program.

💻 Budget for your home office set up.

About the role

We're looking for a Platform Lead, a passionate person with some experience working in a Platform team following a DevOps philosophy. You will help us improve our platform, improving developers' experience, reliability and scalability using a lean approach.

You will work with a techie, multi-disciplinary and lovers team which will give support across the company and integrate with all squads! We need you to help us with very attractive challenges in order to help Tymit to scale to the number of users we are aiming for; in reliability, scalability, observability, and security!

We need you to help us with the main task: Apps migrations from clusters technologies (field project AWS ECS!), with the challenges, that this implies on Monitoring/Insights, Configuration, Logging, zero-downtime upgrades, CI/CD, all around this new technology which is being an amazing journey of tech learning and problem-solving.

About the culture

Be ready to join a company where collaboration is key. You will be expected to share knowledge and speak up, at the same time you have the ability to listen to others and consider their opinions. At Tymit we are also big fans of good atmosphere and humor, prepare yourself to receive a bunch of GIFs.

Platform Engineers at Tymit collaborate with different squads giving support to Engineering areas. Within the team, you will find Fran, Diego, Héctor, Raul, Alejandro and Carl.

During your time at Tymit you will

• Analyse, groom, plan and execute the Tymit trunk Core Platform systems (i.e. epic designs which may affect more than one vertical in the company).

• Pull knowledge from the technical epics' horizon in the early stage on Trunk/Horizontal domains/epics.
• Ensure Platform is present at big architectural meetings of the company that could require Platform influence.
• Influence architectures on the next Platform areas (to deliver set-up roadmaps): Data, Security and Services/Product.
• Continuously assess the roadmap and vision of the Core Platform architecture to include improvements along the way mainly to deliver
• Platform self services around: Observability, developer Experience (CI/CD, Deployments as a service, etc.), security.
• Participate as a Platform core individual contributor to the solutions designed by the team, delivering work as part of the Principal engineers group.
• Define, design and influence the ways of working of the Platform team and the data platform.
• Define and design the role baseline for hard and soft skills for the Core Platform, alongside other areas of the Platform vertical.
• Participate in the hiring process of new Tymiteers (mostly in Platform and Engineering areas).
• Organise and manage human resources within the Platform team to achieve the different goals of the Platform.
• Be able to require/influence the hiring of more resources if there is not enough muscle in the Platform and Data Platform team.
• Be able to influence Squad's priorities if existing dependencies on work related to them.

Key technologies we use at Tymit

Platform team: Cloud Provider & Clustering (AWS, ECS), IaC (Terraform, Ansible & Packer), Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd + Opensearch), CI/CD (Jenkins), Network stack (NGINX & Traefik).

At Tymit team we also work with technologies such as Java/Kotlin Quarkus/Micronaut, GraalVM, Gradle, Kotlin, SwiftUI, Swift, NodeJS, React/Redux/WebPack, Python, among others.

We are always open to adopting new tools to solve complex problems, so we’re ready to discuss options with anyone with the right experience.

What you will bring along

• Proven experience leading technically the way to ship self-service platforms to improve the efficiencies on the stream-line and operation teams.

• Profound knowledge of AWS public Cloud provider and more specifically on AWS Well architecture framework.
• Core and high experience with Terraform IaC tool
• Have clear expectations on shipping security solutions within the AWS ecosystem
• Experience building complex infrastructure systems using core services in AWS as: AWS API Gateway; mix of load balancers (ALB and NLBs); S3, DynamoDB, and RDS PostgreSQL; firewalls with WAF, etc.
• High experience in admin strategic databases for Tymit as RDS PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and Opensearch.
• Robust and proven experience building complex Observability systems
• High experience on artefacts leverage with the general software life cycle using pipelines as code
• Expertise in baseline code languages for Platform like Python or Golang
• Experience in running security assessments
• Act as the leader of the Core Platform decision-making process and provide innovation, leadership, and influence in the design of Tymit's Engineering processes; especially on design architecture for Core Platform services itself, and alongside Product Squad solutions when required.

What you can expect from our hiring process

Stage 1
45 min. video call with Carla, part of Tymit’s People team. Understand your career plan and what motivates you about Tymit.
Stage 2
30 min. video-call with Fran, Platform team!. Brief technical discussion to understand more about the role and your skills.
Stage 3
90 min. video-call with Fran, Diego, or Hector, from our Platform team! Technical discussion around a task to better understand your skills and give you a sneak peek of what it could be working at Tymit.
Stage 4
60 min. video-call with two people from our mix of IT team (Fran H., Jesus, Luciano or Toni). Introduction to your future team to get a sense of Tymit’s culture.
Stage 5
🏁– Offer 📧

If you have any disability, please let us know whether there are any adjustments we can make for our process to be more inclusive.

To meet our regulatory obligations as a licensed financial services company in the UK, Tymit needs to take background checks, Criminal and Credit checks, our new hires to help us safeguard our users.If you have any concerns regarding this process, please discuss this with our People Team.

Tymit is made up of people from various backgrounds, and you are welcome for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like. We seek to create a culture where everyone can belong because we believe that people do their best work to show up every day as their authentic selves. So, bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background.

We do not make hiring or employment decisions based on race, religion, age, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, pregnancy status, or any other difference. If you have any disability, please let us know whether there are any adjustments we can make for our process to be more inclusive