Platform Architecture Team Lead, YouLend
+ Stock Options
Embedded merchant financing
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Embedded merchant financing
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock Options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable future financial services to embed their operations within customer-oriented product suites.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, orchestration, and software development, testing, along with proven leadership skills
- Proven experience leading or managing a technical infrastructure or cloud team
- Expert-level knowledge of AWS (VPC, EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, etc.) with practical experience in designing large-scale cloud solutions
- Proven experience developing systems with C#, Typescript and Python languages
- Proven experience developing Single Page Web Applications, API’s and back-end applications
- Strong experience with Terraform, Pulumi for infrastructure automation and orchestration
- Extensive experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration, including deploying and managing clusters in a production environment
- Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI)
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog)
- Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, including IAM, firewall configurations, and network segmentation
- Experience with cloud cost management and optimization strategies
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with a proactive and innovative approach to addressing infrastructure challenges
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Desirable
- AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or Associate)
- Experience with additional infrastructure as code tools like Pulumi, CloudFormation or Ansible
- Knowledge of multi-cloud strategies and hybrid cloud solutions
- Experience in agile methodologies and DevOps principles
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced Platform Architecture Team Lead to lead a high-performing team of engineers and architects responsible for the design, implementation, and optimization of our Platform, with a focus on AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes for infrastructure side, and C# and Typescript for platform development
- You will guide the team to build scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure while enabling agile application development and delivery
- Lead and mentor a team of infrastructure engineers and architects in developing cloud infrastructure solutions
- Drive collaboration across cross-functional teams, including DevEnablement, security, and application development, ensuring alignment with business goals
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, technical excellence, and innovation within the team
- Lead and mentor the Scrum methodology, manages Scrum ceremonies, planning sprints and team goals. Motivates the team to engage in Scrum collaboration
- Cloud first mentality. Architect, design, and implement scalable cloud infrastructure and software architecture on AWS utilizing best practices for security, cost-efficiency, and performance
- Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, Pullumi or CloudFormation, ensuring consistency, reusability, and version control of infrastructure resources
- Lead the development and management of Kubernetes clusters for orchestrating containerized workloads, ensuring high availability and scalability
- Implement frameworks for a high availability and scalable microservice architecture, ensuring high availability and scalability providing leadership to other business software teams
- Drive the automation of infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment pipelines using CI/CD methodologies
- Work closely with other Platform teams to improve automation, monitoring, and incident response processes for the cloud environment
- Ensure security best practices are integrated into all architecture designs, including identity and access management (IAM), network security, and encryption
- Collaborate with security teams to ensure infrastructure is compliant with regulatory requirements, such as SOC2, HIPAA, or GDPR
- Lead the other software teams in the development of secure software frameworks
- Optimize cloud resources and implement cost-saving strategies across the infrastructure, including AWS cost management tools and resource monitoring
- Continuously review and analyse infrastructure usage and performance, implementing improvements and adjustments as needed
- Collaborate with leadership, product, and otherengineering teams to define infrastructure roadmaps and align them with business objectives
- Act as a technical advisor to stakeholders on cloud infrastructure trends and best practices, keeping up to date with industry developments
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Securing funding can be complicated, arduous and often inaccessible to many companies. YouLend solves this problem by giving eCommerce platforms and tech companies better access to fast and flexible funding.
YouLend has benefited from the boom in the financial services industry, but this also means the company has had to compete with a number of other embedded finance startups, such as Weavr. Despite this, YouLend's focus on online merchants has allowed it to remain competitive in its offering. What's more, the company's revenue-based repayments system differentiates its solution from more established loan options.
YouLend's flexibility and the speed with which merchants can obtain funding has allowed it to gain a foothold in the growing embedded finance market. However, it will need to focus on growing its customer base even further if it wants to scale in this competitive space.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Stock Options
- Private Medical insurance via Vitality
- EAP with Health Assured
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London
- Free Gym in office building in Holborn
- Subsidised Lunch via Feedr
- Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office
- Monthly in office Masseuse
- Team and Company Socials
- Football Power League / Squash Club
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Mikkel Sølvsten Velin
(Co-CEO)Started out as a Junior Associate at Bech-Bruun, and was an External Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen. Was a Partner at Rogge Global Partners (now Allianz Global Investors).
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at YouLend
Joanne Savage (Talent Acquisition Manager)
- At YouLend we’re providing a technology first approach to finance. Our product helps smaller businesses that are the backbone of the economy, and our teams are at the core of delivering our product. We strive to create an equitable culture and we believe our teams are strongest when they are diverse and inclusive.
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