Staff Engineer
London, United Kingdom
Join Performativ as a Staff Engineer to own hard distributed systems, fix bottlenecks at million-client scale, and push AI-powered workflows forward.
Responsibilities
- Take on the hardest technical problems across the platform and drive them to resolution.
- Move across teams and systems to improve scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Design and evolve distributed systems operating at million-client scale.
- Find weak points early and fix them before they turn into incidents.
- Write production‑grade code in the parts of the system that matter most.
- Turn unclear situations into concrete solutions that ship.
- Introduce better ways of working, including pragmatic use of agent‑assisted workflows where they add real leverage.
- Challenge technical decisions and push for simpler, more robust solutions.
- Raise the bar for engineering quality through your actions, not process.
- Help teams move faster by removing friction and unnecessary complexity.
Qualifications
- You’ve built systems that run in production at scale and understand what breaks.
- You have strong intuition for distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and engineering tradeoffs.
- Experience in fintech, wealth management, or other regulated environments is a plus, not a requirement.
- You do not need everything defined upfront and can operate in ambiguity while still delivering.
- You are hands‑on and comfortable writing code in critical paths.
- You’ve influenced technical direction across teams through credibility, not authority.
- You are strong at debugging and getting to root causes quickly.
- You focus on what works, not what looks good on paper.
- You use AI and agent‑based tools to move faster, while staying accountable for the outcome.
- You communicate clearly and do not hide behind jargon.
- You take ownership and finish what you start.
Benefits
- Impact: Work on the problems that define whether we scale or not.
- Environment: Join a fast‑moving fintech scale‑up backed by top‑tier VCs.
- Team: Work with high‑caliber people with extensive building experience.
- Growth: Take on real responsibility with room to expand your scope.
- Compensation: Competitive salary and equity.
