At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a dynamic cloud engineering team and drive innovative projects with cutting-edge technology.
- Company: Join Capital on Tap, a fast-growing financial platform revolutionising small business banking.
- Benefits: Enjoy perks like private healthcare, 28 days holiday, and a fun office environment.
- Other info: Embrace a vibrant workplace with arcade games, office dogs, and a focus on employee wellbeing.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a collaborative culture that values speed, innovation, and inclusivity.
- Qualifications: Proven leadership in cloud environments and experience with IaC technologies like Terraform.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 80000 £ per year.
We’re Capital on Tap Capital on Tap started because small businesses were underserved.
Big banks were slow, their products weren't fit for purpose, and small business owners often couldn't access what they needed.
We set out to fix that.
Today we're a financial platform - not just a credit card company.
We offer a best-in-class business credit card, SME-focused spend management platform, a savings product that hit £1 billion in funds within its first year, and a growing suite of tools and financial products that make running a small business easier. 1,000+ employees, £20bn in annual card spend, 200,000+ customers, 17,000+ Trustpilot reviews averaging 4.7 stars, and we're profitable.
We’ve done a pretty good job so far, but we’re just getting started!
- London (Old Street) | 2 Days in the Office
- Cloud Engineering
Cloud Engineering owns the foundations of Capital on Tap's global engineering effort - the core infrastructure, tooling, and standards everything else is built on.
We aren't just running a platform; we're pushing the technical limits of what cloud infrastructure can achieve
- What you’ll be doing
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement, providing meaningful mentorship and constructive feedback that helps engineers grow.
- Driving team performance by resolving bottlenecks, fostering accountability, and sustaining high engagement to ensure consistent delivery & resource efficiency.
- Driving the adoption of AI within the team, ranging from day to day operations to large scale projects.
- Foster open, transparent communication across remote, hybrid, and in-person environments.
- Stay hands on in cloud engineering, leading by example at a technical level.
- Defining and enforcing cloud engineering best practices that ensure consistency, scalability and operational excellence across the organisation.
- Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and QA to align strategy and turn ideas into well-executed outcomes.
- Contribute to product decisions, bringing a cloud perspective that balances speed, quality and scalability.
- Proactively identify and mitigate risk before they come blockers.
- Embed Dev Sec Ops principles; ensuring security, monitoring, compliance, and automation are built in from the start.
Our Values & Culture
Just
Pilot: We never settle for “good enough”.
We pilot new ideas fast, ask questions to figure it out, and scale quickly.
Why Not Today?
Fast is as slow as we go - speed and simplicity gives us a competitive advantage.
Be a
Buddy: We tap in from day one to help the team, we do the right thing even if it’s hard.
Owners and
Dates: We don’t chase people.
If you own a task and agree to a date, the expectation is that it gets done.
Feedback: We want our employees to flourish, so we regularly provide direct and constructive feedback.
- What are we looking for
- A track record of leading and delivering complex projects.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers, and the appetite to own the full management remit, from hiring and development through to the harder people conversations.
- Extensive experience managing public cloud environments.
- Proficient in contributing to Ia C technologies involving expertise in writing, managing, and optimising infrastructure with tools such as Terraform.
- Experience using CI/CD tools, building pipelines, templates and troubleshooting.
- Experience with applying high availability across cloud architectures, ideally including multi-cloud.
- Experience with containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
- A customer-focused, commercially aware and data-informed approach to your decision making.
- Ability to manage cross-team dependencies, collaborating effectively with Platform, SRE, Product, and other stakeholders.
- Even if you don’t have all of the necessary skills, we still encourage you to apply.
- Interview process
- First stage : 30 minute intro and values call with Talent Partner
- Second stage : 60 minute technical interview with the Engineering Manager & People Partner
- Third stage : 60 minute live technical challenge with the Platform team
- Fourth stage: 60 minute case study with Product, the Engineering Manager & Head of Platform Operations
- Diversity & Inclusion
We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity.
Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work.
Great Work Deserves Great Perks
We try not to take ourselves too seriously (all the time) so we make sure our office is decked out with a pool table, arcade machine, beer tap, and a couple of office dogs thrown in for good measure.
- Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality
- Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality
- Anniversary Rewards (£250, £500, £750, 4-week fully paid sabbatical)
- Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match
- 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Loan
- 6 free therapy sessions per year
- Dog Friendly Offices
- Free drinks and snacks in our offices
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