Senior Platform Engineer, 9fin
+ Equity options
1+ day a week in office
Data & analytics platform for finance professionals
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Data & analytics platform for finance professionals
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity options
1+ day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help leveraged finance professionals win business, outperform their peers, and save time.
Role
Who you are
- Good working knowledge of AWS services including ECS, EC2, Lambda, VPC, IAM, Route53, CloudFront, S3, RDS
- Good understanding of monitoring and logging solutions, e.g. Prometheus, AWS Cloudwatch, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, ELK etc
- Basic SRE knowledge, and experience in alerting and incident management platforms (eg. Opsgenie, Pagerduty)
- Proven ability to provide and support strong and scalable CI/CD pipelines
- Linux, Git, Docker and good scripting skills in e.g. Python, bash, Go. You should be proficient in at least one modern programming language
- Good experience in defining Infrastructure as Code, using Terraform or Serverless etc
- Knowledgeable and comfortable with Agile development practices
- Great appetite for learning and self-improvement
- A real passion for developer experience, as well as an understanding and enthusiasm for Platform Engineering as a discipline
- Experience with public APIs would be a bonus
- Previous experience in fintech is a bonus
- We are looking for a highly-motivated and driven platform engineer, with experience in enabling a DevOps culture within tech teams
What the job involves
- You will have the autonomy to build solutions for the fascinating problems that we have to solve, allowing our customers (the software engineers) to build products quickly, securely, and to a high standard of quality
- Designing and implementing high quality infrastructure as code templates/modules, and empowering software engineers to use them for their projects
- Implementing AWS multi-account core infrastructure, and ensuring security best practices are being used across the cloud estate
- Authoring CI/CD templates and optimisations to ensure that engineers can release as early and often as possible
- Designing and implementing a developer portal (eg. Backstage), to provide a service catalogue to the engineering team, and also author many other useful DevOps plugins
- Contributing to observability best practices and providing key SLI/SLO metric reporting, so that the engineering team can balance velocity and reliability
- Develop inner/open source projects to help provide a world-class developer experience to the engineering team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
9fin’s initial aim was to solve the problem of extracting data out of financial documents. It quickly turned to AI, where computer vision tools can be deployed to find key financial data points - like a company’s sales and revenue - quickly and automatically.
Its AI tools learn to understand the complicated legal clauses in contracts, automating a lot of the manual work that’s usually involved in this space. The result is a platform that debt capital market professionals can use to make quicker and better investment decisions.
9fin is used by leading banks, hedge funds and asset managers around the world - with a 100% deal prediction accuracy record under its belt, it’s easy to understand why. The company has seen significant investment, the most recent of which will support the scaling of its team and expansion of its product into new asset classes, as well as helping it to grow its presence in the US.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
84% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2024
$50m
SERIES B
Dec 2022
$25.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $88.4m
Company benefits
- Flexible hybrid working policy (no in-office mandate)
- 22 weeks full pay maternity, 12 weeks full pay paternity + shared parental leave
- Learning & development budget
- 25 days off + bank holidays
- Bi-annual team and company socials
- One month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
- Work abroad for up to 3 months a year
- Bank holiday swap program
- Vitality health insurance
Company values
- Technology doesn't serve the business. Technology is the business: Technology and business are not independent; they are one and the same. We’ve met CEOs who don’t know what language their code is written in and CTOs who don’t know who the customers are. That’s not OK
- Talent trumps experience: We judge people by the quality of their ideas, not the duration of their employment. We’d rather work with people who have spent 12 months being awesome than those who have spent 3 years being average
- Don't know? Say so: Ignorance is only a weakness when you don’t admit it. We’ve seen lots of people waste hours of productivity because they were too afraid to ask for help
- Ship early and often: It’s impossible to design a truly awesome product without customer feedback
- Never settle: The product might have shipped, but it’s never perfect. If we can’t find ways to improve we just aren’t looking hard enough
- Diversity: We don’t discriminate. As well as being an end in itself, varied backgrounds and cultures bring new perspectives and stop group think
- Have an opinion: No decision is off limits to being challenged. Disagreement is healthy, it shows you care
- Beautiful simplicity: If it’s not easy to use, then it’s broken. Consumer applications relentlessly focus on the user with beautiful interfaces and snazzy graphics. There’s no reason why B2B can’t be just as good
- Make time for others: Everyone is busy. But taking 5-10 minutes out of your day to grab a coffee with a colleague who needs advice or help is not too much to ask
- Overcommunicate: Don’t leave people in the dark. It’s better to receive a 10 second note saying “Super busy, but I’ll get to it.” than radio silence
- Family & health come first: No customer or job matters more than family and your health
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Steven Hunter
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Analyst at JP Morgan and an Investment Executive at Babson Capital Investment.
Huss El-Sheikh
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Business Analyst at Deutsche Bank for 4 years.
People progressing
Jen joined in 2022 as our Head of People, bringing a wealth of expertise in HR. As her industry knowledge and impact grew, Jen got promoted to COO in 2024 and is now one of our key executive leaders.
Huw joined 9fin as an intern in 2018 (one of our first employees!) 7 years later, he is now our Global Head of Strategic Operations, leading our global expansion.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at 9fin
- At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we’re looking for — either for this role, or perhaps another.
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