Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer 

Pune 

• 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 delivering for a FinTech scaleup in the embedded payments space?  

• Do you want to have the opportunity to support engineering activities across a range of products with a rapidly growing customer base?  

If so, we would love to hear from you! 

 We are one of the fastest-growing payments businesses 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 Enterprises, 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 payments ecosystem. 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 and SWIFT. We are principal issuing members of Visa and Mastercard across the UK and Europe.  

Our regulatory permissions and governance structure underpin our business. We are regulated as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) 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 globally across offices in London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Mumbai. 

Modulr values 

• Build the extraordinary and go that extra mile. 

• Own 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: work as a team, collaborating with other Modulites. 

The Team  

The platform 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. 

Key responsibilities 

• 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 about cloud and automation, systems administration, and infrastructure management; 

• You'll thrive when working on problems from identification to resolution and looking to solve any recurring tasks or issues through automation; 

• 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 tool sets 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. 

About you 

You will have a track-record of delivering results in a fast-moving business where complexity and ambiguity is the norm. Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration is essential to being successful in this role. 

• 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  

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.