Senior Cloud Engineer, Railsr
Banking-as-a-Service platform
Open for applications
Banking-as-a-Service platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make finance an amazing experience everywhere in the world.
Role
Who you are
- You have a proven track record running and scaling services on AWS
- Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and Terraform
- Experience with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) for log management, analysis, and monitoring
- Experience in Grafana and Prometheus for monitoring, metrics collection, and visualisation
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines(GitLab pipelines is a plus) and scripting languages (Bash or PowerShell)
- Experience running Kubernetes clusters is a plus
- Experience running Apache Kafka clusters is a plus
- Solid understanding of cloud architecture best practices, security principles, and scalability considerations
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, including VPN, DNS, load balancing, and routing
What the job involves
- As Railsr grows, we are expanding our Cloud Engineering team. You will have the chance to shape and optimize our cloud infrastructure, ensuring its scalability, security, and efficiency. You will work alongside a squad of Cloud and Security engineers, being key for the Engineering organisation and having the chance to collaborate and learn from the rest of the squads
- Design and Implement Cloud Infrastructure: Collaborate with cross-functional squads to design, develop, and deploy scalable and secure cloud infrastructure solutions on AWS using Terraform
- Contribute with fresh ideas and constructive feedback to the platform's development and our engineering community
- Solve problems - you unblock yourself and other team members when they hit a roadblock
- Our stack:
- Infrastructure - AWS IaC with Terraform
- Persistence - AWS DynamoDB, AWS RDS, Datomic
- Data distribution - AWS SNS/SQS, Apache Kafka
- Monitoring & Alerting - ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty
Our take
As the digital economy has grown, so too has the market for 'Banking-as-a-Service' - the process of ensuring the overall execution of financial services over the web. As businesses expand online, they have opportunities to be able to build and sell various financial services or add fintech features to their existing products. Railsr (formerly Railsbank) facilitates companies doing this easily, where it would previously have been a huge undertaking.
Essentially, Railsr is making financial services more inclusive. Previously, the complexities of legacy technology, managing global compliance and ancient bank processes have created a slow, complex and costly experience for customers. Now, through Railsr's Open Banking Platform and APIs, financial innovators have the means of creating the financial services, products and experiences their clients want.
In 2022, shortly after becoming Railsr, the company benefitted from the embedded finance boom and raised a large funding round to support its ongoing expansion efforts. Early in 2023, however, the company had to undertake an emergency sale and shift of control - though it seems to have remained positive throughout, citing the sale as a "pivotal moment" that will enable it to "rebuild momentum, drive change and return Railsr to growth."
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2023
$24m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2022
$26m
SERIES C
Total funding: $171.4m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Philippe Morel
(CEO, not founder)Was the CEO of SETL for four years. Previously Principal Investment Leader (EMEA) at Boston Consulting Group.
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