Senior Platform Engineer, 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
- Strong software engineering experience, including backend development in languages like C#, Python, or TypeScript
- Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation in AWS environments
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS preferred), Helm, and GitOps practices
- Experience managing cloud infrastructure using AWS services including VPC, EC2, IAM, Lambda, S3, EKS, and Control Tower
- Experience with observability and monitoring stacks (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus)
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to lead the resolution of complex technical challenges
- Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers within a team
- Motivating work environment:
- A high-quality team that pushes each other to succeed through direct feedback and aligned incentives
- Strong and transparent team culture, we have each other’s backs
- Independent work environment where results matter
- Data-driven culture and emphasis on speed (anti-red tape)
Desirable
- Experience in performance optimisation and stress testing distributed systems
- Knowledge of cloud cost optimisation strategies
- Exposure to integrating security tooling into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Dev Enablement team, where you'll help empower product engineers to deliver high-quality code faster and more reliably
- You'll build systems that improve developer productivity, streamline CI/CD, and enhance infrastructure efficiency, while leading through technical excellence, collaboration, and mentorship
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps
- Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform, Pulumi, Helm, and Kubernetes
- Standardise and enforce platform engineering practices across environments (development, staging, production)
- Collaborate with developers to enhance development workflows and reduce friction in delivery pipelines
- Own and evolve test automation strategies and tools used across engineering teams
- Contribute to strategic technical direction and roadmap discussions for your team and platform area
- Support and lead incident response efforts, including root cause analysis and postmortems
- Document and evangelise internal tools and best practices to ensure wide adoption
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
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Company
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
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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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