Senior Cloud Engineer, Marshmallow
Offers Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high performance
3+ days a week in office (Near Old Street Station, London)
Accessible, tech-enabled insurance for those who step outside the norm
Job no longer available
Accessible, tech-enabled insurance for those who step outside the norm
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
Offers Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high performance
3+ days a week in office (Near Old Street Station, London)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To back those who find themselves on a different path, either by choice or by circumstance, helping the exceptions to the rules that others aren’t interested in serving.
Role
Who you are
- AWS & Networking: Expertise with AWS (IAM, VPCs, etc.), designing secure, scalable architectures
- Containers & Orchestration: Proficiency in ECS and Docker, with Kubernetes knowledge a strong plus
- Infrastructure as Code: Skill in Terraform (or similar) to manage resources and streamline deployments
- CI/CD & Automation: Experience implementing pipelines, ideally with TeamCity, Kotlin (optional but beneficial), and Python (e.g., Lambdas)
- Observability: Familiarity with integrating logs, metrics, and alerts into production systems, especially using DataDog
- Team Enabler: Background in mentoring or coaching engineers, sharing technical expertise, and guiding architectural decisions
- ML Collaboration: Comfortable working closely with Data Scientists on ML workflows; SageMaker or data science exposure is a bonus, not a requirement
What the job involves
- As a Senior Cloud Engineer with a strong focus on cloud engineering at Marshmallow, you will report to our Staff Platform Engineer (who reports to the CTO)
- We are a small but impactful Cloud/Platform Engineering team, primarily supporting product engineering today
- In this role, you will help us expand our capacity to support additional teams and company-wide initiatives
- You will play a pivotal part in shaping the future of our platform and infrastructure
- This includes spearheading the growth of our ML Platform from around 20 models to hundreds within the next 12 months, and contributing to our broader goal of expanding from a single insurance product to multiple financial products
- You will join three other Cloud/Platform Engineers, collaborating closely with two MLOps Engineers to evolve our machine learning workflows
- Your efforts will cover everything from building cost-effective CI/CD pipelines to guiding AWS account organisation and networking decisions that uphold security, observability, and self-serve principles
- This is a hybrid role, requiring three days per week in our London office near Old Street Station
- In time, there is potential to progress into a Staff or Principal Cloud Engineer position as our infrastructure becomes more complex and our product range grows
- Collaborate and Automate: Work with MLOps Engineers and Data Scientists to identify requirements, then build and refine tools for automated ML model development, testing, and deployment
- Elevate Operational Standards: Drive operational excellence by creating reusable components, applying best practices for CI/CD, and promoting robust observability, logging, and security
- Scale and Secure: Optimize AWS infrastructure performance, including cross-account networking, while championing security best practices and addressing vulnerabilities proactively
- Mentor and Lead: Share knowledge across teams, guiding major technical initiatives, and supporting other engineers in adopting cloud engineering best practices
Application process
- We break it up into 4 stages:
- Initial call with a member of our Talent Acquisition team (30 mins)
- A past-experience interview (60 mins)
- A skill-based/technical interview (60 mins)
- A culture interview to check that your work style fits our processes and values (60 mins)
- We’ll let you know if you’re invited to an interview or not. But, as a small team with a lot of applications to consider, we can’t give individual feedback on each application
- Background checks:
- To meet our regulatory obligations as an FCA-authorised financial services company, we need to do some background checks on all new hires. That means carrying out a DBS check and making sure you don't have any live criminal proceedings. Feel free to ask our Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions about this!
Salary benchmarks
Our take
For many ordinary people, insurance can be inaccessibly expensive. Marshmallow solves this problem by using data and technology to offer fairer coverage for car and van owners.
Car insurers generally quotes drivers according to population data, and many drivers are overcharged due to age and demographic. By leveraging data and proprietary technology, Marshmallow can offer more accurate and personalised quotes delivered in minutes, meaning lower fees for drivers. Naturally, this approach has proven popular, with Marshmallow garnering impressive reviews and accolades since it first launched.
The insurtech space is becoming increasingly competitive, and more and more tech companies are moving into the car insurance space, so the company is currently looking to expand into other insurance areas. Marshmallow’s unicorn status is a clear indicator of the company’s ongoing success and scalability, and will help to facilitate this diversification.
For now, the company is focused on helping those outside the norm, such as those who have uprooted their lives and moved to the UK. But in the future, it hopes to expand to any group of people who are unfairly marginalised and whose problems Marshmallow is uniquely positioned to solve.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2021
$83m
SERIES B
Nov 2020
$30m
SERIES A
Total funding: $118.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible working - Manage your own time and choose where to work from (in the office, at home, or a little bit of both). Just make sure your team is happy too.
- Ben benefits - Get your hands on your flexible benefits budget with the Ben Mastercard and spend it wherever you want.
- Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high performance 🌟
- Private healthcare - We want to support everyone’s wellbeing at Marshmallow, which is why we offer private healthcare insurance with Vitality.

- Cycle to work scheme - We’re registered under the Cycle-to-Work scheme, so you can buy a new bike tax-free. Lycra shorts optional.
- Mental wellbeing - We have partnered with Oliva to offer mental health support and make therapy sessions more accessible.
- Learning and training - Personal budgets for books and training courses to help you grow in your role. Weekly book clubs and learning sessions. Plus 2 days a year - on us! - to further your skillset.
- Company socials - We give all of our teams monthly budgets to get to know each other better outside of work. Plus we have company-wide socials every two weeks, themed parties, and more.
Company values
- We have a bias for action - We carry urgency into our every day, knowing that only by making daily progress can we drive long-term growth
- We are challenging and honest - We optimise for truth and progress, which requires us to never shy away from difficult conversations with each other
- We take ownership - We take on challenges, and put our hands up when things go wrong
- We are selfless - We work hard, together and without ego
- We are bold - To serve our customers best, we experiment relentlessly, make tough decisions and go where others won’t
- We simplify for success- We don’t overcomplicate or try to be too clever. Less is more
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
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Leadership
Oliver Kent-Braham
(Co-CEO)Previously worked in Growth & Partnerships at Yoti and Leveraged Finance at Investec. Previously founded Reel Money.
David Goaté
(Chief Architect)Previously Software Architect at Yoti, also worked as a software engineer at Homeseller, Cognitran and IG.
Alexander Kent-Braham
(Co-CEO)Previously worked in Product at Yoti. Also co-founded Reel Money and was an Analyst at hedge fund QCM.
People progressing
Joined as Software Engineer, being promoted to Technical Team Lead after 10 months.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Marshmallow
- To solve big problems, we need exceptional people from all walks of life. We're creating a culture where everyone feels empowered to bring their unique perspectives and boldest ideas to the table. Belonging - As a community, we foster an environment where everyone feels supported and safe to bring their authentic self to work. Recognition - We recognise and celebrate the differences in our experiences, understanding that our unique contributions help us collectively deliver our best work. Influence - We’re empowered to share our voice and have influence. We value diversity of thought, knowing we are better through our collective perspectives and experiences.
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