DevOps Engineer, Peaks
Plus employee stock ownership program
Simple investing for everyone
Be an early applicant
Simple investing for everyone
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
Plus employee stock ownership program
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower people from all walks of life to realise their financial ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years of engineering experience with a strong focus on infrastructure, automation, and reliability
- Solid understanding of cloud architectures, infrastructure as code, and engineering best practices
- Deep expertise in at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and strong skills with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability tools
- Are a result-driven professional who can deliver reliable systems while experimenting with new technologies
- Have a strong awareness of security and compliance
- Take ownership of tasks end-to-end, from design to production
- Have strong communicative skills to interact with other internal teams and work directly with the CTO
- Live or plan to live in the Netherlands (Peaks is located in the heart of Amsterdam)
What the job involves
- As a DevOps engineer, you’ll design, build, and maintain the infrastructure that powers our products
- You’ll play a key role in shaping our delivery pipelines, ensuring system reliability, and driving automation across our platform
- You’ll collaborate closely with developers to streamline deployments, optimize performance, and strengthen security
- You’ll contribute to a resilient infrastructure with a focus on scalability, observability, and best engineering practices
- You will work directly with our CTO and collaborate closely with backend and mobile engineers to own the infrastructure that powers Peaks
- You take responsibility for designing, building, and maintaining our cloud architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring systems. You drive automation and reliability across our platform, ensuring deployments are smooth and systems are secure, scalable, and resilient
- You don’t just keep things running, you anticipate problems, solve complex challenges, and make sure our infrastructure is ready for the future
Our take
The retail investor market is growing, thanks to investment apps like Robinhood and E*TRADE democratising access to the markets and empowering non-professionals to make their money work. It’s stimulated the fintech startup scene globally, too, and whilst many are chasing the hands-on retail investors, a niche has opened up for ‘small change’ investment apps for the hands-off customer. Peaks is one of these, allowing users to round up card payments and automatically invest it.
These apps are great for early-stage, short term investors, even though they will tend to work out more costly in the long run. As such, they tend to be directed at young Gen X and the emerging Gen Z markets - and here’s where Peaks has smartly distinguished itself from competitors like Stash and Acorn. Peaks is a values-driven app which only permits investments in sustainable ETFs. This is likely to play well with the younger generations, who expressly seek out brands and companies with the kind of eco-friendly ethos that aligns with their beliefs.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2021
$5.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $5.9m
Company HQ
Grachtengordel-West, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Tom Arends
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously spent almost 7 years at Rabobank as the Head of Quantitative Investment Research and as a Lead Business Change Manager for Savings and Investments. They also spent 8 years at Robeco in various roles, including Team Leader for Product Research and Manager for Organisational Change.
Jeroen Mulder
(COO)Alongside Peaks, they are also a Managing Partner at Haerlem Capital. They previously spent over 2 years at UL Transaction Security in a number of roles, including Commercial Director of Europe (UL Transaction Security) and Global Product Manager of the Transaction Security Division.
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