Site Reliability Engineer, Thredd
1 day a week in office (Holborn, London)
Issuer processing partner
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Issuer processing partner
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
1 day a week in office (Holborn, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform the world through true partnerships and smart payments to revolutionise the future of finance, together.
Role
Who you are
- Are you passionate about building reliable, scalable, and high-performing systems? Do you thrive on solving complex infrastructure challenges while driving automation and observability best practices? If so, we want to hear from you!
- Proven experience building and maintaining infrastructure, tooling, and technical foundations at scale
- Strong track record of ensuring high service uptime and reliability to empower product teams to innovate effectively
- Expertise in shaping and evolving core technology layers that underpin a successful, high-growth platform
- Proven experience implementing SRE principles at scale, including deep knowledge of SLI/SLO/SLA differences
- A product engineering background with strong coding skills in Python or similar
- Experience with incident management frameworks and evolving them for efficiency
- Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
- Solid understanding of microservices, service mesh, and modern architectural concepts
- A collaborative mindset – you thrive on helping others and driving company-wide impact
Desirable
- Experience working in regulated industries (e.g., PCI compliance)
- Background in capacity planning, performance, and load testing
- Sysadmin skills for troubleshooting disk, network, and infrastructure issues
What the job involves
- At Thredd, we’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to act as a North Star for this evolving discipline
- As our first engineer in this role, you’ll have the unique opportunity to shape our SRE strategy, establish best practices, and set the standard for service reliability and performance
- Design and oversee the implementation of complex, secure, and scalable network solutions that support global transaction processing
- Lead network innovation by identifying opportunities to adopt emerging technologies and drive efficiency
- Coordinate and prioritise network-related initiatives across teams, balancing operational needs with strategic growth
- Mentor and support engineers within the team, fostering technical excellence and a customer-focused mindset
- Drive performance and reporting, delivering insights and data that help optimise system health and uptime
- Collaborate with stakeholders, vendors, and service providers to ensure seamless integration and service quality
- Develop and enforce quality assurance protocols and documentation standards across our network landscape
- Own strategic network planning, ensuring infrastructure evolves in step with our product and market expansion
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Embedded banking, or Banking-as-a-Service, has been a major driver of the fintech explosion. It allows challengers and smaller players to rapidly incorporate novel financial products and infrastructure without building from scratch - and major players to keep pace with increasing consumer demand for fintech services. Thredd (formerly Global Processing Services) focuses on paytech, with a tranche of services including major areas like payments, wallets, fraud prevention, and crypto management.
This diverse offering across high-growth fintech sectors has helped Thredd draw in hefty funding, and key clients across the key fintech markets of Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East, including Revolut, Curve, Cape, and Starling Bank.
This shows quite how far Thredd has managed to capture significant market penetration, which has given it the resources to continue building out key new products. With more non-fintech businesses looking to leverage the benefits of embedded banking, this could see Thredd expand into further markets such as insurance and loans. Certainly, Thredd has both the momentum and the valuation to take the plunge into other lucrative verticals.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2022
$100m
LATE VC
Oct 2021
$300m
LATE VC
Total funding: $450.9m
Company benefits
- 25 Days annual leave
- Option to buy 5 days annual leave
- Pension scheme
- Private Medical
- Life Insurance
- Green Car Scheme
- SmartTech
- Volunteer time
- Season Ticket Loan
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Long Service Awards
- Retail Discounts
- Tax-Free Childcare Vouchers
- Flu Vaccinations
- Flexible benefits (Better you fund, Revitalise you Fund, Money Coach, Expanded Private Medical, Critical Illness)
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Jim McCarthy
(CEO)Currently Advisory Board Member at Car IQ, MagicCube and TreviPay. Also Strategic Advisor at Kyck Global.
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