Senior Platform Engineer, GoHenry
Pocket money app to make every kid smart with money
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Pocket money app to make every kid smart with money
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make every kid smart with money.
Role
Who you are
- Deep, hands-on Google Cloud experience (including GKE and Cloud SQL), with a strong grasp of GCP's networking and security model (experience with Cloudflare is a bonus)
- Strong hands-on Kubernetes skills and a practical understanding of container orchestration in a production environment
- Proficiency in writing and standardising infrastructure code with Terraform, Helm, and modern CI/CD tooling
- Proven track record as a strong individual contributor who takes end-to-end ownership of complex technical work
- Good working knowledge of observability tooling (such as Datadog) to configure metrics, logging, and alerting systems that genuinely inform on-call response
- A passion for sharing knowledge, mentoring peers, writing documentation, and helping fellow engineers grow
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to serve as a core technical contributor on our Platform team, designing, building, and owning the infrastructure systems that power GoHenry's products
- In this role, you will elevate platform quality, optimize reliability, and directly support customer-facing innovations
- Design, implement, and own infrastructure systems end-to-end, from initial design through to production operation
- Write high-quality, well-tested infrastructure code using Terraform, Helm charts, and CI/CD pipelines, actively contributing to team-wide standards
- Take ownership of complex production incidents—diagnosing, resolving, and driving blameless post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence
- Contribute to architectural discussions with well-reasoned proposals backed by practical experience
- Stay current with the cloud ecosystem and bring concrete, considered recommendations for tooling and approaches to the team
- Maintain a consistently high bar for scalability, resilience, and reliability across your areas of ownership
- Implement and improve observability using meaningful metrics, structured logging, and actionable alerting that surfaces real signals
- Ensure all infrastructure is version-controlled, reviewable, and reproducible, following infrastructure-as-code principles throughout
- Design and operate systems with security and compliance in mind—ensuring adherence to industry best practices and supporting audit requirements such as PCI-DSS and SOC 2
- Work closely with tech squads to help them consume platform capabilities effectively and unblock their delivery
- Partner with backend, data, and security engineers to align on shared infrastructure patterns and standards
- Communicate clearly about infrastructure changes, risks, and ongoing work to the teams that depend on the platform
Our take
Since a group of parents in Hampshire came up with the idea in 2009, GoHenry has come a long way and now has more than 2 million customers across its UK and US territories. GoHenry has been named by KPMG and H2 ventures as one of the world’s Leading 100 Fintech Innovators and the company also ranked the 8th fastest-growing British tech business in the Sunday Times TechTrack 100.
GoHenry has definitely revolutionised something that has characterised parent-child relationships for many years: pocket money. With no control or education, children usually spend their money without being truly aware of its value and do not learn anything about money management. GoHenry provides a useful tool to help young people learn good money habits while giving parents peace of mind and an easy way to manage pocket money.
On this mission to help children gain a better financial understanding, GoHenry has released a gamified, interactive tool named Money Missions. In addition to this game, GoHenry launched a Junior ISA, to enable parents to invest in their child's future in a more simple yet effective way. This clearly has potential as 11,000 parents opted for a Junior ISA in its pre-launch phase, so it's proving to be a sizeable market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2022
$55m
LATE VC
Dec 2020
$40m
LATE VC
Total funding: $123.5m
Company benefits
- Enjoy time off: We offer 25 days paid annual leave, plus Flexible Public Holidays (you can decide what you celebrate and cherish, and when you do it!). Plus, we support flexible and remote working, so that unmovable appointment doesn't need to be covered by annual leave
- Flexible working: Our GoFlex policy means you can choose to work at the office, WFH, or a little of both. No matter where you work, we'll make sure you have everything you need so you can focus on your goals
- Stay balanced: A healthy work-life balance is everything. So don’t be a slave to the grind—just give it your all when you’re working. Oh, and this is part of our official rules: start work late (read: sleep in) on your b-day
- Learn faster with training & development: It’s your career, so you lead the way. We provide training and development opportunities and access to hundreds of webinars. Plus, count on your manager for support and regular feedback
- Get health & wellness perks: A healthy work-life balance is everything. We encourage you to give it your all when you're working and to reset properly when you're not. Perk alert: we offer all employees a free subscription to the Calm app
- Choose your equipment: Mac or PC? We all have different ways we prefer to work. Choose your own equipment, so your working days are as comfortable as possible
- Make friends, too: We have fun together, and enjoy each other’s company! We host get-togethers and provide fun perks, while you spend quality time with the team
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Louise Hill
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Operations Director at The Cotswold Company & Findel Direct (warehousing operations) and at Scotts of Stow Ltd.
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