Senior Platform Engineer, YouLend
£65-90k
+ Stock Options
Embedded merchant financing
Open for applications
Embedded merchant financing
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£65-90k
+ 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
- Strong experience with Terraform, Pulumi and Helm in multi-account AWS environments
- Expert-level knowledge of AWS (VPC, EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, Control Tower, Transfer Family, Transit Gateway, Multi-account hosted zones, etc.) with practical experience in designing large-scale cloud solutions
- Proven software engineering experience (any language) and willingness to learn C#, TypeScript, Python
- Proven full-stack engineering experience (front end, backend, APIs, databases)
- Proficient in Kubernetes (EKS preferred), including RBAC, autoscaling, and Helm-based deployment
- Solid experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps Pipelines, etc.)
- Familiarity with containerisation using Docker and secure image management
- Scripting or programming experience in Bash, Python, or TypeScript
- Strong understanding of GitOps practices and infrastructure lifecycle management
Desirable
- Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Fluent Bit)
- Knowledge of admission controllers, OPA/Gatekeeper (optional for governance)
- Familiarity with cloud cost optimisation and Kubernetes scaling strategies
- Exposure to security scanning tools (tfsec, Trivy, Snyk)
- Interest in mentoring and platform evangelism within the wider engineering team
What the job involves
- As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in building scalable infrastructure and deployment systems across YouLend’s cloud ecosystem
- You will be responsible for standardising infrastructure as code, improving developer workflows, contributing to CI/CD design, and enabling self-service deployment models through automation and governance
- This role is part of the Architecture Team within the Platform group
- Design and implement infrastructure using Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, and Kubernetes
- Build and manage scalable CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Define and enforce platform standards across environments (dev, staging, prod)
- Collaborate with developers and DevOps on deployment tooling and security
- Enable platform observability using tools like Datadog, Prometheus, and CloudWatch
- Maintain Helm charts and Terraform modules for shared infrastructure
- Contribute to onboarding documentation and platform adoption practices
- Participate in incident response and postmortem analysis, where applicable
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.
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Company
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
Articles
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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