Senior Platform Engineer

Talent Point Ltd ,
London, Greater London
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £75,000 per annum

Overview

Are you a Senior Platform Engineer , who would you like to play a pivotal role in turning one the fastest growing start-ups ever in the UK into a powerhouse in the eCommerce sector? Do you want to champion DevOps, in a business where it's seen as a way of life, not just a job? Do you ship quality code, following principles like Software Craftsmanship, XP and TDD ? Then this could be the perfect role Senior Platform Engineer role for you. We are working with an exciting eCommerce start-up, which has been majorly backed by investors to revolutionise the largest retail sector in the UK. They went live in December and generated over £10m in revenue in their first 8 weeks Having got an MVP to market the key focus now is to use the latest technology to deliver new features that are going to add genuine value to their customer experience. The platform is expecting traffic in the thousands per day, and they are looking to hire a Senior Platform Engineer who will be responsible for ensuring it will remain performant and reliable as their audience grows. Their platform has been built from the ground up using cloud-native technology. They use a number of AWS services for their event-driven, serverless architecture (Lambda) . Using IaC (Terraform) and bespoke applications built-in Node you will automate deployment and infrastructure , allowing the platform to automatically access the resources it needs to be scalable, performant, secure and reliable. They are a team that genuinely care about shipping good quality code. The platform was built following best practice engineering principles like Agile, Software Craftsmanship, CI/CD, XP and TDD . They don't just talk about TDD , their whole platform was built following a test-first approach, and they would expect all the tools you build to be the same. Like what you hear so far? Great then apply now as this is the perfect time to join. They are offering Senior Platform Engineers who join now significant equity in the business and, trust me, you do not want to miss out on this Talent Point is a Hiring Communications business, working as sole hiring partners with our customer. We've ripped up the rules and torn apart the job spec to give you total clarity and visibility, painting a vivid picture (approved twice, both at Line and C-level) of the way this company lives, breathes and behaves, and how your role (Senior Platform Engineer) will look over years not months. We present only three applicants for every vacancy so, where we do represent you, you have a very high chance of securing a role with pre-booked interview times to plan around, in-depth vacancy details and no delays. Are you ready to seriously invest in your progression? Let's design your future. Talent Point is an equal opportunities employer and no terminology in this advert is designed to discriminate on grounds of gender, race, colour, religion, creed, disability, age, sex or sexual orientation or any other class protected by applicable law. For information on how Talent Point manages and processes your personal information please see our privacy notice at talentpoint.co/privacy-policy