Senior Platform Engineer, Lemfi
International payments service
Open for applications
International payments service
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To improve the financial lives of the next generation of immigrants.
Role
Who you are
- Ownership-driven — you take initiatives from design through production
- Reliability-focused, with strong SRE principles
- Security-conscious, understanding encryption, IAM, and compliance needs
- Collaborative communicator who partners well across Engineering & Security
- Strong experience with AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, Networking)
- Hands-on expertise in Terraform and/or CloudFormation (IaC)
- Experience with Docker and containerised workloads
- Solid understanding of cloud security, IAM, encryption & key management
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
- Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., New Relic)
- Exposure to event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and distributed architectures
- Don’t meet every single requirement in the job ad? Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often hesitate to apply if they don't check every box
- If you are excited about this role and our mission, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right person for this, or other roles
What the job involves
- You will be a Senior Platform Engineer at LemFi, responsible for designing, building, and evolving the cloud infrastructure that powers global money movement at scale
- Your mission is to create a secure, scalable, and cost-efficient AWS cloud platform that enables engineers to ship faster while meeting the operational and regulatory standards of a global fintech provider
- You won’t just maintain infrastructure — you’ll build a self-service internal cloud platform that improves reliability, strengthens security, and ensures our systems remain resilient as we process billions in transactions worldwide
- Design and scale AWS infrastructure with a focus on reliability, security, and cost-efficiency
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation) ensuring changes are auditable and reproducible
- Improve observability (monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing) and strengthen SLO-driven reliability
- Enhance CI/CD pipelines and contribute to our Internal Developer Platform
- Support incident response, disaster recovery, and compliance (GDPR, PCI DSS, SOC2, DORA, ISO27001)
Application process
- Deadline to Apply: 6 March 2026 at 00:00 GMT
- Chat with a Talent Partner (30 mins)
- Behaviours & Culture (45 mins)
- Technical Interview (60 mins)
- Final Interview (30 mins)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
LemFi, previously known as Lemonade Finance, is a fintech platform addressing the challenge of accessing reliable financial services faced by millions of immigrants worldwide. By offering quick onboarding and a multi-currency offering, LemFi allows its users to send, receive, hold, convert, and save in both their country of origin and residence currencies.
Recognising the limitations faced by traditional banks and neo-banks, LemFi offers instant international transfers at favourable exchange rates with no transfer fees. Initially launched in Canada, growing demand for the company's services has allowed it to expand to the UK, and broaden its African payment channels.
The company has secured good funding from prominent investors like Y-Combinator, Zrosk, Global Founders Capital, and Olive Tree. With plans to expand its product offering across the globe, LemFi will further its mission of providing accessible and transparent financial services to migrant communities worldwide.
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Company
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Ridwan Olalere
(Co-Founder & CEO)Ridwan is also the Founder of forLoop Africa. Previously, he served as the Country Manager of Uber Nigeria and worked as a Software Developer at Flutterwave, Hotels, Novatia, and NextMynds.
Rian Cochran
(Co-Founder)Rian was previously a Financial Director at Opera Software, Powerbets Holdings, and OPay.
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