Senior Platform Engineer, YouLend
+ Bonus or share option appreciation + Stock Options
Embedded merchant financing
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Embedded merchant financing
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Bonus or share option appreciation + Stock Options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable future financial services to embed their operations within customer-oriented product suites.
Role
Who you are
- Proven software engineering experience, ideally in C#, Python, or Typescript
- Exposure to microservices and event-driven architectures, with an understanding of message handling, domain boundaries, and service isolation principles
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs and unit testing (xUnit, Pytest, etc.)
- Proficiency with Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, Helm, and Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
- Experience designing systems using multi-account AWS infrastructure (VPC, IAM, EC2, Lambda, RDS, etc.)
- Track record of creating or improving CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.)
- Comfortable with containerisation using Docker and secure image management
- Familiarity with observability tools like Datadog or CloudWatch
- Understanding of GitOps and infrastructure lifecycle management
Desirable
- Exposure to C# fundamentals, ASP.NET Core, and Akka.NET
- Frontend experience or familiarity with Angular applications
- Experience with OPA/Gatekeeper, Fluent Bit, or security scanning tools (Snyk, Trivy, tfsec)
- Strong understanding of SOLID principles and software architecture patterns
- Passion for mentoring, building for reuse, and improving developer velocity
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our cross-functional Architecture team, where you’ll drive the design and improvement of YouLend’s developer platform and infrastructure. You’ll work across cloud infrastructure (AWS), CI/CD tooling, developer experience, and performance-critical applications
- This is a hybrid role: part developer, part platform engineer. You’ll write and reason about code (preferably in C#/.NET or Python) while also building scalable infra using Terraform and Kubernetes. You will be empowered to shape standards, tooling, and infrastructure patterns that affect every team at YouLend
- Build scalable, observable, and secure infrastructure using Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes (EKS)
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins
- Collaborate with engineers to improve developer workflows, test automation, and onboarding
- Extend and standardise platform tooling, including secrets management, GitOps, and auditability
- Contribute to the development and improvement of backend services in C# using ASP.NET, including RESTful APIs and Akka.NET-based systems – you’ll be expected to engage in actual coding and not just support application deployments
- Contribute to internal tooling to enable developers, as well as API development where needed (e.g., FastAPI, Python)
- Optimise application deployments, container performance, and cloud cost strategies
- Document architectural patterns and champion platform best practices across teams
- Contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, disaster recovery design, and runbook improvements
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Securing funding can be complicated, arduous and often inaccessible to many companies. YouLend solves this problem by giving eCommerce platforms and tech companies better access to fast and flexible funding.
YouLend has benefited from the boom in the financial services industry, but this also means the company has had to compete with a number of other embedded finance startups, such as Weavr. Despite this, YouLend's focus on online merchants has allowed it to remain competitive in its offering. What's more, the company's revenue-based repayments system differentiates its solution from more established loan options.
YouLend's flexibility and the speed with which merchants can obtain funding has allowed it to gain a foothold in the growing embedded finance market. However, it will need to focus on growing its customer base even further if it wants to scale in this competitive space.
Steph
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Company benefits
- Stock Options
- Private Medical insurance via Vitality
- EAP with Health Assured
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London
- Free Gym in office building in Holborn
- Subsidised Lunch via Feedr
- Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office
- Monthly in office Masseuse
- Team and Company Socials
- Football Power League / Squash Club
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
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Leadership
Mikkel Sølvsten Velin
(Co-CEO)Started out as a Junior Associate at Bech-Bruun, and was an External Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen. Was a Partner at Rogge Global Partners (now Allianz Global Investors).
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at YouLend
Joanne Savage (Talent Acquisition Manager)
- At YouLend we’re providing a technology first approach to finance. Our product helps smaller businesses that are the backbone of the economy, and our teams are at the core of delivering our product. We strive to create an equitable culture and we believe our teams are strongest when they are diverse and inclusive.
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