At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage and optimise our tech infrastructure for software, analytics, and ML platforms.
- Company: Join Zilch, a fast-growing payment tech company on a mission to empower customers.
- Benefits: Enjoy income protection, share options, private medical insurance, and mental health support.
- Other info: Hybrid working model with a casual dress code and great career development opportunities.
- Why this job: Be part of exciting projects and help shape the future of payments.
- Qualifications: 4+ years experience with SQL, Kubernetes, AWS, and Linux required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Zilch is a payment tech company on a mission to create the most empowering way to pay for anything, anywhere.
Combining the best of debit, credit and savings, we give our customers the option to earn instant cashback or spread the cost of pricier purchases, completely interest free and with no late fees.
We started in 2018 with a small team and a big dream—to make credit accessible to all.
Since then, we’ve achieved double unicorn status and taken on more than 5 million customers.
There are some exciting projects coming up and we’ve got big growth plans.
Want to join us?
The Role
The Platform Engineer at Zilch plays a crucial role in managing and maintaining the underlying technology infrastructure of our Software, Analytics and ML platforms.
Your primary responsibility will be to ensure that the platform runs efficiently, securely, and at scale.
- Day to day responsibilities
- Working in an agile environment on systems that are critical for our customers.
- Supporting and optimising our critical systems for performance, fault tolerance, security, reliability and cost.
- Continually improving our systems, our practices, and our knowledge.
- Working with our databases and data to ensure we store and process information securely and effectively.
- Assisting in ad‑hoc technology support and related duties.
- Enthusiastic commitment to uptime and reliability.
Qualifications and experience
- 4+ years experience supporting SQL Databases.
- 4+ years experience supporting Kubernetes.
- 4+ years experience supporting AWS systems including Cloud Front, API Gateway, NLB, RDS, and Aurora (or Azure/GCP).
- Experience supporting Linux.
- Knowledge of supporting caching systems like Redis or Memcached.
- Knowledge of supporting REST integrated systems.
- Working understanding and knowledge of Terraform and Ia C concepts.
- Bonus skills
- Experience with Java development.
- Experience with Python development.
- Exposure to No SQL databases (e. g., Mongo DB).
- Experience with Data Platform technologies (e. g., Redshift, Airflow, Sage Maker).
- Exposure to Agentic workflows (e. g., Bedrock).
- Exposure to Policy as Code (e. g., Cedar, OPA).
Benefits
- Income protection.
- Permanent employee Share Options Scheme.
- 5% back on in‑app purchases.
- £200 for WFH setup.
• Private medical insurance including
- Private medical insurance
- GP consultations (video, telephone or face‑to‑face).
- Prescribed medication.
- In‑patient, day‑patient and out‑patient care.
- Mental health support.
- Physiotherapy.
- Advanced cancer cover.
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Unlimited mental health sessions.
- 24/7 remote GP & physiotherapy.
- 24/7 helpline for emotional & practical support.
- Savings & discounts
- Savings & discounts on everyday shopping.
- 1:1 personalised well‑being consultations.
- Family friendly policies
- Enhanced maternity pay.
- Enhanced paternity pay.
- Enhanced adoption pay.
- Enhanced shared parental leave.
- Learning & Development
- Professional qualifications.
- Professional memberships.
- Learning suite for e‑courses.
- Internal training programmes.
- FCA & regulatory training.
- Work arrangement
Hybrid working: office‑based Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday; remote working Tuesday and Friday.
Casual dress code. Workplace socials.
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