Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

We’re on a mission to back the UK’s small businesses like no one else. Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we’re here to help them win. We’ve built a platform that uses clever data to get them the funding they need in minutes, not weeks. At Funding Circle, we have the restless energy of a fintech start‑up with the stability of a public company. It’s a unique mix that gives Circlers the autonomy to take ownership and the scale to make an impact that truly counts. We’re a high‑performing team that chooses to lift each other up. We challenge, we champion, and we have each other’s backs – because we know that when we stand together, we move faster and build better. The impact is real: Last year alone, the businesses on our platform generated £7.2bn for the UK economy. Come and join a mission that matters!

The role London (Hybrid) | 2 days in the office | Competitive Salary + Benefits

As a Senior Engineer in the Cloud Platform team, you will be joining a team who thrives on building high quality, secure, scalable and observable solutions for the business to run on. We aim to empower the product team by building the tools for them to self‑service their needs and reduce the toil required for everyday working. Being able to ship code at a high velocity whilst maintaining our high standards is our goal every day.

Owning initiatives alongside Leads and Managers, working to plan and communicate, as well as deliver for high impact. Deliver high quality solutions that continually drive us to give the best experience and outcomes to all of our customers. Making decisions that keep our Cloud Platform secure, cost effective & resilient for our customers. Empower engineers with varying levels of infrastructure expertise to be self‑sufficient through a combination of supporting, mentoring and evangelism of our tools and practices. Proactively problem solve, identify and confidently mitigate any risks, issues or control weaknesses that arise in your day‑to‑day.

What we’re looking for

• Passion for modern software development principles and empowered, self sufficient, high performance, product teams.
• Hands‑on experience architecting and scaling AWS environments, with an understanding of Kubernetes and Serverless patterns to build resilient, cost‑effective, and scalable infrastructure.
• A proactive mindset toward reliability, utilising our monitoring stack for deep system insights and incident.io to foster a healthy, blameless culture of incident response and continuous improvement.
• Champion Infrastructure‑as‑Code first approach ensures that our ecosystem is automated, reproducible and consistent with Terraform being our main tool of choice.
• Proficiency of python preferred to support our mindset of automation first engineering to keep toil down and produce reliable outputs consistently.
• Mature AI outlook with solid experience in using (personal projects are fine!) and an understanding of how best it can deliver value.

We’re building a place where everyone truly feels they belong. Even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you.

Why join us

• We back you to build an incredible career.
• As a flexible‑first employer, we use a ‘best of both’ approach. We’ll see you in our London office to collaborate – with barista coffee and subsidised Just Eat lunches on us!
• Our Circler Proposition focuses on five areas:

• Flexibility: We provide a benefit allowance you can tailor to your own life and family.
• Health: This includes private medical and dental, health assessments, and access to a digital GP.
• Wealth: We offer life assurance, share schemes, and financial coaching.
• Development: You get a dedicated annual learning allowance to help you level up.
• Lifestyle: We have electric car and cycle‑to‑work schemes, plus season ticket loans.

We also have award‑winning parental leave policies. We’re here to support you through the big life moments, from fertility treatments to new additions to the family.