DevOps Engineer

Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking for a better way of doing things?

Do you want to keep learning and developing whilst getting hands-on experience working in the embedded payments space?

Do you want to have the opportunity to lead a team responsible for building best-in-class payments products?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

We are looking to hire ambitious, and value-adding talent to join Modulr, the fastest growing payments business in the UK and Europe, and are looking to hire ambitious, and value-adding talent.

About us

At Modulr, our vision is a world where all businesses are powered by embedded payments.

Modulr enables thousands of businesses, from SMEs to Enterprise, across the UK and Europe to efficiently pay-in, collect and disburse funds instantly via a range of payment methods, accounts, and card products.

We’ve created an industry-leading platform with comprehensive online tools and API access, to meet the demands of daily business payments. We are connected to an expanding network of accounting and payroll platforms, including Sage, Xero, BrightPay and IRIS. Our payments expertise and extensive product capability also enables us to build tailored solutions to solve complex payment problems for hundreds of clients in a range of industries, including Travel, Merchant Payments, Lending, Wage Advance and Investment & Wealth.

We are deeply integrated into the payment eco-system. In the UK, we are direct participants of Faster Payments and Bacs, and hold settlement accounts at the Bank of England. Our payment network connectivity includes CHAPS, Open Banking, SEPA, SWIFT and account issuance in 11 currencies. We are principal issuing members of Visa and Mastercard across UK and Europe.

Our regulatory permissions and governance structure underpin our business. We are regulated and supervised as an Authorised Electronic Money Institution (AEMI) in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority and in the Netherlands by De Nederlandsche Bank.

Our founding team has a wealth of experience in the payments industry and growing successful businesses. Modulr is backed by the venture arms of payments giants PayPal and FIS, as well as growth investors Blenheim Chalcot, General Atlantic, Frog Capital and Highland Europe.

Modulr now has over 400 employees spread globally across offices in London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Mumbai.

Modulr values

Building the extraordinary and going that extra mile

Owning the opportunity, be passionate and proud of the time you invest

Move at pace, reach your goals faster with us supporting you each step of the way

Achieve it together, working as a team and being a Modulite

The role

To execute on our mission you and the team will drive innovation and the future growth of the platform that powers Scotland's Fintech of the Year. To give you a picture of the sort of work that you are likely to encounter some of the projects on our roadmap include:

Redesigning our CI/CD

Migrating to new deployment paradigms such as serverless architectures (e.g. AWS Lambda) or containerisation technologies (e.g. Kubernetes)

Automation of change management and audit trails

Cost Control

Development Tooling

Implementing a service mesh

As a part of the Platform Team your voice and knowledge will be crucial in the direction of the platform, you and the team are makers of your own destiny. In order to achieve many of these projects we lean on our varied expertise as well as existing practices and paradigms, which are heavily influenced by Site Reliability Engineering. It is important to note that as part of this role you will be expected to be on call for the platform and actively contribute to improving how we manage incidents. On call is remunerated separately with a flat rate as well as an additional bonus if you are called out whilst you are on call.

We also function as ambassadors to the engineering squads to encourage best practice for areas we are experts in as well as to gather requirements from the engineering teams as to what they need us to build in the future. This mechanism is the conduit by which many of our ideas and improvements percolate, both in the engineering teams and in the platform.

The Team

In order to achieve our mission the team is made up of approximately 10 engineers with a range of skills and experience which complement each other. We believe that in order to work most effectively in such a varied and ever changing technical landscape we need multidisciplinary people who are keen to learn and to lean on each other. Alongside technical delivery we also hold an evangelical role where we champion best practice and empowerment in our development teams.

About you

You’ll be part of an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and above all passionate team. We would like you to display these same attributes and display proven knowledge of how you embed the principles of DevOps and SRE into everything you do. You'll thrive here when working on problems from identification to resolution and looking to automate to solve any recurring tasks or issues. You’re comfortable working in a scaling business, where time is critical, and things change on a regular basis.

You enjoy positively challenging the way things are done and want to join a business that is focused on constantly improving. You have well thought-out opinions about how technologies and toolsets can be used to create elegant solutions and are happy sharing these. You care about the quality and integrity of the outputs from your team and want to work with people who care. You can find the right balance of speed and accuracy when prioritising and take responsibility for seeing things through to a high standard. Above all we value passion and integrity, knowledge can be gained, tools learned, passion can’t be read and integrity can’t be certified.

The Ideal Candidate

Building, observing and scaling a highly available, 24x7 platform

Experience working with AWS

Experience with communicating with external teams and building strong relationships outside of your immediate team

Experience working with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform

Experience working with Kubernetes, preferably using AWS EKS

Experience automating / maintaining CI/CD pipelines in a Linux, Apache, Java, PostgresSQL stack

Experience working with Microservices architecture

Experience of being an incident responder

What can Modulr offer you

You’ll be part of a cross disciplinary team(s), with co-workers located in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and/or India. We are friendly and sociable, challenging but rewarding. We want you to push yourself and for us to support you in your future as we scale up and grow. Our culture and values are putting you first and are about investing in your future.

Share Options Incentive Scheme

Company Bonus - the more successful we are together, the more company bonus we offer

Flexible benefits - £1000 to spend on a variety of benefits for you to choose from which suit your lifestyle and needs

Perkbox - enjoy freebies and discounts on many other products and services

33 days holiday (including bank holidays) + your birthday off - choose which days you take off to relax and/or spend time with loved ones

Learning Opportunities – on joining Modulr you will embark on our 3-day onboarding programme, called ModStart, to be equipped with the Modulr know-how and arm you with the tools you need to be successful from day 1! But, we don’t want your learning to stop there so we will continue to provide you with the tools and capabilities through our learning channels, platforms and Buddy allocation to allow you to grow and develop in Modulr.

Modulr All hands - join your colleagues for our company wide events throughout the year

Great workspace - Modulr thrives on innovation which is best done through in-person collaboration. This approach enables us to work together closely, exchange ideas, and create innovative solutions that drive our success. We ask our team members to be based in the office 4 or more days a week. We have state of the art offices located in WeWork in Edinburgh, ScaleSpace in London, and WeWork in Amsterdam.

Bike to work scheme

ModInclusion

We believe that by seeing Modulr, and the world, from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all. We want you to know that the things that make you, you — like your identity, age, ability, and background — are things that we will always celebrate and support with open arms. As such, we are keen to maximise the diversity of our workforce and actively encourage applications from anyone and everyone.

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