Platform Engineer, Trainline
£60-70k
+ 2-for-1 share purchase plans
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
Europe's leading rail ticketing platform
Open for applications
Europe's leading rail ticketing platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£60-70k
+ 2-for-1 share purchase plans
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Trainline is proud to be Europe's leading rail and coach platform - a tech company with a mission to make train travel as smooth as possible to allow travellers to make greener travel choices.
Role
Who you are
- Professional experience as a software engineer, writing code in Python, Node.js, C# or a similar programming language
- An understanding of software engineering best practice, with a focus on writing clean, maintainable and testable code
- Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, CloudFront, IAM and S3, following operational and security best practice
- Experience delivering infrastructure with Terraform or another infrastructure as code tool
- An understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD, for example using GitHub Actions
- Experience using AI tooling in your day-to-day work, for example for coding, code review, research and productivity
- A curious mindset and the ability to pick up new technologies quickly and apply them well
What the job involves
- The Infrastructure Engineering and Tooling team, also known as Atlas, owns the ecosystem we use to deploy, run and manage services across the Trainline platform. Our work helps engineering teams across the business ship changes safely and confidently, so millions of travellers can rely on Trainline every day
- You'll join a collaborative team of software and platform engineers at all levels of experience. We work across Terraform, AWS, Node.js, C# and Python, and we don't expect you to know it all from day one
- You'll work closely with engineers, Tech Leads and Engineering Managers, with support from a Senior Principal Engineer and the Head of Engineering, to improve our platform and deliver meaningful infrastructure change
- Contribute to improvements across Trainline's engineering platforms, building scalable, reliable and secure infrastructure that supports teams across the business
- Implement infrastructure changes with Terraform, following existing module patterns and suggesting ideas to improve quality, maintainability and automation
- Apply least-privilege and secure-by-default principles across our AWS accounts, helping our infrastructure meet Trainline's standards for security and operational excellence
- Build and improve automation, services and tooling in Node.js or Python to make delivery faster, safer and more repeatable
- Learn and grow with your colleagues through code reviews, pairing and shared knowledge, giving and receiving constructive feedback along the way
- Work with Tech Leads, Delivery Managers and cross-functional colleagues to understand priorities, plan your work and manage dependencies
- Raise risks, blockers and questions early, helping the team keep delivery moving at a sustainable pace
- Test, validate and deploy infrastructure changes through CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) pipelines, making sure they are robust, well documented and ready for production
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Trainline make it super easy to book transport tickets. Its app is intuitive and well designed and its even pioneering paperless travel, allowing users to store their tickets in the app.
It's hyper-focused on customer experience and has a product culture of fast iteration to deliver great outcomes for customers. Its customers make 170,000 journeys a day and it sells 200 tickets a minute.
Its continuing to innovate to stay ahead, using machine learning to predict price movements and integrating with Siri and Google Assistant so people can buy tickets simply by speaking to their phone.
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Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"The complex nature of the market as we work with different suppliers is an amazing opportunity to create fluid solutions. A very well segmented..."
Company benefits
- Flexible working (60% min office attendance)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted gym memberships through Wellhub
- Private Health and Dental Insurance
- Enhanced Pension (matched contributions)
- Income Protection
- Share Incentive Plan (buy one get one free)
- Learning budget
- Primary & Secondary Caregiver Leave
- Shared Parental Leave
- Enhanced sick pay
- Free Perkbox subscription
- Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- YellowNest - Subsidised Childcare Fees
- Work from Abroad
Company values
- Own It - We care about every customer, partner and journey
- Do Good - We make a positive impact
- Travel Together - We're one team
- Think Big - We are building the future of rail
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jody Ford
(CEO)Joined Trainline in 2020 as COO before becoming the CEO in 2021. Previously the Group CEO at Moonpig and Photobox and also spent over 10 years at eBay in various VP roles.
Lisa Hillier
(Chief People Officer)Previously the CPO at Gousto, The Restaurant Group, and Just Eat. They also spent over 6 years at Betfair as the Head of HR and Chief Human Resource Officer.
Mike Hyde
(Chief Technology Officer)Previously a Director of Data Science at Facebook and as a Director of Business Insights at Skype and Microsoft.
Sakshi Anand
(Chief Growth Officer)Joined Trainline in 2023 as the VP of Growth and President of UK before becoming the CGO in 2025. They are also the Founder of NeuStar Consulting.
People progressing
Gary joined in 2022 from Comparethemarket as Director of Engineering and was recently promoted to VP Engineering, reporting directly to CTO.
Joe joined in 2022 from Meta as Director of Data Science and was recently promoted to VP Data, reporting directly to CTO.
Ali joined in 2023 from Meta and was recently promoted to VP Product, reporting directly to CPO.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Trainline
- 💚 Diversity drives us forward We know that having a diverse team is crucial to Trainline’s ongoing success. A team that is diverse in all forms – gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought are key to Trainline being an inclusive environment where every Trainliner can be their true self. We're committed to creating workplaces where everyone belongs, is celebrated and their differences are valued, creating an awesome employee and customer experience. 💚 Meet our Networks Our diversity networks are inclusive communities developed and led by Trainliners, with sponsorship and support from senior leaders. They're all about empowering and supporting underrepresented groups, by providing a safe space to talk, a place to come up with new ideas and a channel for voices to be heard. 🚀 Women in Leadership 💜 Gender Equality Network 🏳️🌈 Rainbow Train (LGBTQIA+) 🌻 Sunflower (accessibility) 🌍 Ethnic Diversity Network 🐣 Parent & Carers
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