Head of Platform Engineering needed for a REMOTE position
? 100% REMOTELY
? Salary up to $160,000 yearly, depending on experience
? 35 days of paid holidays, 10 days of paid sick leave and equity in the company
☑️ B2B long-term permanent contract
? Hong Kong-based international fintech startup
Do you want to do impactful work that will be deployed to millions of citizens weekly? Do you want your input to be heard and taken into consideration? Apply and create a digital future with us!
We're looking for a Head of Platform Engineering for an international fintech startup on a mission to protect and grow its clients’ life savings. The company was founded to address two of the biggest issues with Bitcoin adoption: accessibility and security. In a matter of years, they developed an industry-leading platform that introduced cryptocurrency into the daily lives of millions worldwide.
Head of Platform Engineering would build and lead a new team of Platform Engineering. The company's cloud-native application platform automates infrastructure provisioning and configuration, dynamically allocating and reallocating resources at deploy time based on the needs of the application. Building on a cloud-native runtime optimizes application life-cycle management, including scaling to meet demand, resource utilization, orchestration across available resources, and recovery from failures with minimum downtime.
Requirements:
- Experience with designing the infrastructure for high availability
- Strong experience with one of main cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure (we use AWS)
- Recent hands-on DevOps experience, ideally in addition to recent software development experience
- 9 years of experience minimum
- Recent managerial experience
- Strong understanding of the foundations of security & best practices
- Designed software and/or platforms used by other developers, and have supported those developers with - the adoption of these solutions
- Extensive experience of running platforms within a DevOps organization – delivering and operating a - --DevOps toolchain and automation are essential
- Strong and demonstrable experience in developing a CI/CD pipeline and supporting technologies
- Experience integrating with third-party SaaS providers and a demonstrable understanding of when we should buy vs build
- Stays abreast of current technology developments and has demonstrated the ability to retain competitive advantage by implementing relevant technologies in software products
Nice to haves / pluses:
Genuine interest in the cryptocurrency space
Experience with financial data and/or finance
Tech stack we use:
AWS for all of our Infrastructure
Docker
Python / Flask
MySQL
MongoDB
Redis
And more...
Responsibilities:
- A focus on the ongoing sustainable maintenance and operability of our developer platform
- Adopting cloud-native principles and a focus upon relentless automation and testing of change
- Providing high-quality fast feedback to development teams
- Building a platform that is architected to handle change, be that new services, new customers, new regulations, new tooling, or a change in demand
Why work with us?
- Shape the Future: Improve lives through cutting-edge technology, work 100% remotely from anywhere in the world
- Own Your Success: Receive attractive remuneration, enjoy an autonomous work culture and flexible hours, apply your expertise to meaningful work every day
- Extremely well-funded organization
- You'll be able to build your team(s) from scratch and structure it to your liking
- No tight deadlines and loose, startup atmosphere
- Impactful work! Your work will be deployed weekly to millions of citizens and your input will be heard and taken into consideration
- Amazing opportunity to develop non-technical business skills
- Direct contact with the Founder of the company
- Further development opportunities and exchanging experience with strong professionals
Our offer:
- B2B REMOTE contract
- Salary up to $160,000 yearly, depending on experience (conditions can be negotiated periodically)
- 35 days of paid holidays, 10 days of paid sick leave and equity in the company
- Loose atmosphere, no tight deadlines, work with experienced developers, great opportunity to exchange experience and knowledge
- 100% remote work
- Long term contract
Referral bonus: 3,000 PLN if we hire an engineer based on your recommendation
Get to know DevsData
We are a technology consulting company and a recruitment agency, delivering software solutions to clients from Europe and the US. We work 100% remotely, in an international team, including people from Asia, London, or San Francisco. We employ people with experience in international corporations as well as students of the best technical and business universities.
Find out more: https://devsdata.com/