Senior Platform Engineer, Performativ
Office located in Fitzrovia House, London
Wealth management software
Be an early applicant
Wealth management software
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
Office located in Fitzrovia House, London
21-100 employees
Company mission
To revolutionise the outdated and underserved wealth management industry across the continent.
Role
Who you are
- Strong backend/API engineering skills (some of: PHP/Laravel, Golang, Python, TypeScript)
- Deep knowledge of API best practices, web standards, and integration patterns
- Experience building integrations between SaaS platforms and enterprise systems
- AWS/cloud-native engineering experience (containers, IaC/CDK, CI/CD, observability)
- Pragmatic approach to building for simplicity, reliability, and continuous delivery
- Problem-solver who thrives in fast-moving, high-growth environments
- Strong communicator: comfortable collaborating with engineers, product teams, and client tech stakeholders
- Domain knowledge of trading, financial markets, or investment products is a plus
- Ambition to grow into platform architecture and technical leadership within 12–24 months
- Willingness to travel occasionally within northern/central Europe
What the job involves
- Build reliable and resilient APIs in Golang, Python, PHP and TypeScript in complex domains in an extremely collaborative and client-focused environment, while evolving a core platform for leverage
- Performativ is building the next-generation wealth management platform and we’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help extend our SaaS platform and embed it into the complex environments of our enterprise clients while maintaining that SaaS modularity
- As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work hands-on with our engineering leadership to deliver robust integrations and core platform services
- You’ll help shape the architecture, drive technical decisions, and have the opportunity to grow into a leadership role as we scale over the next 12–24 months
- Design and build backend services and APIs that power Performativ’s platform
- Deliver integrations with client systems using best-practice standards (REST, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, webhooks, event-driven)
- Develop reliable data flows (ETL pipelines, async messaging, event-driven processing) between Performativ and external systems
- Shape API and integration approaches into reusable platform capabilities
- Ensure everything you build is secure, observable, and continuously delivered with strong automated testing
- Tackle tough engineering challenges with a problem-solver’s mindset
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With the rise of digital-first banking, traditional and legacy financial institutions are struggling to keep up with innovations. Performativ is a digital-first platform for wealth managers and investment advisors, focussing on optimising advisory solutions and the customer experience of high net worth individuals (HNWIs).
Performativ offers front, middle and back-end tools to financial service providers - such as investment advisors - suggesting optimisations for their operations while helping to future-proof financial infrastructure. The company claims to achieve 70% reductions in operating costs and a 2x faster onboarding process - boasting undeniable value for its clients.
Managing over €20B in assets spanning various classes, Performativ caters to the diverse needs of financial institutions and wealth managers, and is positioned to be a key player in reshaping the future of financial services. Recent seed funding will be used to accelerate its growth, expand its offering and increase its client base as it addresses a sector in dire need of digital innovation.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2023
$6.5m
SEED
Aug 2021
$0.7m
SEED
Total funding: $7.2m
Company benefits
- A dynamic work environment: Become part of the energetic atmosphere of a fast-growing FinTech startup
- Flexible Working Hours: Enjoy the flexibility of managing work hours in a way that makes sense for you and your tasks
- Professional Development Fund: Generous annual fee to participate in courses and conferences and improve professional skills and knowledge
- Continuous Feedback Culture: Feedback is frequent, constructive and two-way. Regular check-ins ensure that you are purposeful, recognized and always on a path to growth
- Personal growth: Embrace opportunities for professional and personal development while working alongside some of the brightest minds in the fintech industry
- Collaborative Culture: Here your ideas are heard, your contributions are valued, and your growth is a shared priority
- The Performativ Experience: Get involved with a product that is making waves in the industry
Company HQ
Middelalderbyen, København
Leadership
Peter Barry
(CTO)Previously led Development Operations at Goldman Sachs, was the Founder of cell five and worked as a Cloud Architect and Technical Manager in a consultancy capacity.
Albert Geisler Fox
(CEO)Previously an Investment Consultant at Kirstein and Financial Analyst at TV2 DANMARK. Also worked as a Software Engineer at Meebox.
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