Senior Platform Engineer, Lendable
£70-100k
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
Profitable Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform
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Profitable Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
£70-100k
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper and friendlier.
Role
Who you are
- Production experience running Kubernetes at scale, not just deploying to it, but operating it
- Proven ability to improve developer experience and platform adoption across teams
- Deep cloud experience, ideally on AWS
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform (Terragrunt a bonus)
- Hands-on experience with a modern observability stack including Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
- Modern CI/CD experience: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Flux
- Comfort scripting in at least one of the following: TypeScript/Node, Python or Go
- A solid grounding in Linux, networking, and security fundamentals
- We don't expect every box to be ticked. If most of this sounds like you, we'd like to hear from you
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help us scale the multi-account AWS platforms that now power Lendable products across the UK, US and Mexico, supporting the hundreds of engineers shipping on top of them
- You'll be joining a Platform Engineering team of eight, reporting to our Platform Engineering Manager
- This is a senior, hands-on role in a production environment where minutes of downtime translate directly into customer impact
- You'll take ownership of key parts of our platform, driving technical direction and making pragmatic trade-offs between reliability, cost, and developer experience
- We build with self-service in mind, creating paved roads, abstractions, and guardrails that enable product teams to move fast without needing to understand the underlying complexity
- Design and manage core AWS infrastructure via Terraform and Terragrunt
- Build and operate robust Kubernetes, GitOps and observability tooling
- Shape how engineering teams ship to production, progressive rollouts, canary deploys and fast, safe rollbacks
- Bake security into the SDLC, policy-as-code, OIDC-based cloud access, secret scanning and pre-merge controls, working closely with our Security team
- Partner with engineering teams on infrastructure, database and deployment best practices
- Provide and continuously improve CI/CD and developer tooling
- Share an on-call rotation with the team, supported by the observability and tooling you help build
- We make use of AI-assisted tooling (e.g. code generation, debugging, and platform operations). You’re either already comfortable working this way, or excited to adopt it
- What success looks like in this role:
- Product teams can ship to production independently using self-service platform capabilities, without needing direct support from Platform Engineering
- Platform standards (infrastructure, deployment, security) are widely adopted across teams
- Changes to the platform measurably improve developer experience and delivery speed
- Incidents are reduced over time through better system design, observability, and guardrails
- Infrastructure is scalable, cost-efficient, and secure by default, with clear trade-offs made where needed
- Our tech stack:
- Cloud & compute: AWS (multi-account, multi-region), EKS with Karpenter and KEDA
- IaC: Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm
- CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts
- Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
- Security: HashiCorp Vault, Kyverno, Checkov, Aikido
- Databases: PostgreSQL and MySQL
- Developer platform: Backstage
- AI tooling: Claude Code, Cursor, Augment
- Tooling we build ourselves: TypeScript
Application process
- Intro call with Talent Team
- Hiring Manager call - 30 minutes
- Tech interview - Solution Design - 2 hours
- Culture Interview with our VP of Technology - 45 minutes
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Lendable competes with banks, other lenders, and consumer finance companies to make finance and credit easier to access for all consumers. Streamlining the loan application process, the company cuts personalised rates and fund transfers from days to minutes.
Lendable believes it can win in this crowded field due to its market-best customer service and strong financials. Part of its success is due to its funding coming from institutional investors. Lendable originates and services its loans on behalf of institutional investors, but doesn't hold them on its own balance sheet.
Growing insolvencies will worry all lending platforms, but Lendable looks well-placed to weather any credit storm given its substantial debt financing. With fresh funding, this profitable fintech unicorn is poised to make credit access easier for consumers. And with the launch of two new products in the US, Lendable is certainly in a good position for more growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2022
$283.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2017
$6.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $293.8m
Company benefits
- 💸 Best-in-class compensation, including equity
- 🏥 Comprehensive private health insurance (including dental, optometry and general wellbeing)
- 🎊 Multiple opportunities to socialise with your team and the wider company
- 💻 Equipment provided for you to do your best work!
- 🏠 You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas (hybrid)
- 🍲 Our in-house chefs prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday
- 🚗 EV car scheme (Octopus)
- 🚲 Cycle to work scheme
- 🧮 Pension
- 🌴 25 days of annual leave - excluding bank holidays
- 🏋️♀️ 50% off gym memberships at Virgin Active and Nuffield (via Vitality health insurance)
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Martin Kissinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Economics as an undergraduate at LSE before doing an MPhil at Oxford University. Worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Rocket in Berlin.
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