Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Curve
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Consolidating all a customer's bank cards into a single card
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Consolidating all a customer's bank cards into a single card
201-500 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify the way people spend, send, see and save money.
Role
Who you are
- We are searching for a certain kind of person who is excited by the idea of owning the products they build, as well as people who like to build best-in-class features and services
- Experience deploying production ready applications to a Kubernetes cluster
- 2+ years of experience with a cloud provider (AWS an advantage)
- Knowledge of defining infrastructure as code, ideally with Terraform
- Experienced with a modern programming language such as Go or Python
- Ability to diagnose problems at any level (Client, HTTP/Network, Server, Database, OS)
- Experience of agile development practices and working in sprints
- Knowledge of designing PCI-compliant infrastructure will be a bonus
- Experience of working in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment will be an advantage
- Ability to write clear, concise documentation
- Keen to learn, and aware of changes in the software and cloud-native technologies industry
- If you’re thrilled by the idea of ownership, passionate about building features and services, and think you can manage the fast pace with a fail-fast, learn-fast attitude, we would love to hear from you
What the job involves
- This position requires collaboration with engineers, product managers and other teams and stakeholders within the business
- Key Accountabilities:
- Working with Curve’s engineering teams to support the infrastructure they need and the platforms on which their services run
- Observing our platforms and services to measure reliability, find areas for improvement, and discover any risks to the stability or security of our systems
- Maintaining new and existing infrastructure with code, by writing well-designed Terraform modules, to make the best use of our cloud providers
- Doing proof-of-concepts on new and emerging tech to see how it could fit at Curve
- Taking part in honest and transparent blame-free post-mortems on incidents we have, so we can learn from them and prevent them from happening again
- Sharing your work and talking about it within the Platform and Engineering team, to spread knowledge and be an ambassador for good site reliability practices
- Deploying innovative new tools to help accelerate engineers and make their lives easier, giving them more time to focus on what they are building
- Documenting and driving the adoption of engineering best practices across the wider Engineering team
- Demonstrating ownership of all initiatives from concept to launch, and embodying unwavering commitment and reliability, with a genuine willingness to contribute and address challenges
- Projects/initiatives that we want you to contribute to, or lead the charge on:
- Helping Curve scale to many millions of customers and expand into multiple regions
- Architect our platforms to be secure and reliable to give our customers peace of mind
- Automate and accelerate - reduce manual tasks and allow all of Curve’s engineers to concentrate on building exciting new features
- Build, measure, learn - help us put together the best observability tools to continually improve Curve’s services and performance
- Our current tech stack includes:
- Cloud providers: Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform
- Platforms: Kubernetes (EKS) with Istio service mesh
- Observability: Prometheus, Coralogix and Grafana
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Hashicorp Vault
- Infrastructure as Code: extensive use of Terraform and Atlantis
- CI/CD: GitLab, Flux and Helm
Our take
While its customers have their own Curve card, fintech company Curve emphasises its distinction from traditional banking institutions. Renowned for its groundbreaking remedy to credit and debit card clutter - a singular card amalgamating multiple accounts - the company has garnered widespread acclaim.
Alongside its all-on-one card, Curve offers customers access to spending insights and premium exchange rates for international travel. Its astute banking tool secured a hefty $1B lending capital injection from Credit Suisse in 2022, followed by a substantial $58M Series C funding round in 2023, ranking among the largest in tech that year.
Curve's dominance extends beyond mere payment aggregation; its analytical tools outpace competitor platforms like Apple Pay. Additionally, Curve has introduced Curve Flex, as a solution tailored to the contentious buy-now-pay-later model. With plans to leverage its 2023 funding for enhancing customer experience, particularly through app refinements and flex solutions, Curve is poised to fortify its position while laying the gorundwork for future collaborations.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Mar 2025
$48.7m
LATE VC
Jan 2024
$39.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $341.5m
Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
Leadership
Shachar Bialick
(CEO)Previously worked as Head of Product at Checkout.com, CEO at Machshavot SmartJOB, and Founder and former CEO at SmartEQ. Completed an MBA at INSEAD.
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