Platform Engineering Manager

We're making banking 10 times better.

Here at 10x Banking we believe banks are slowed down by their own legacy technology and we’re here to change that. Our community brings together banking industry knowledge with market-leading, next gen, cloud native technology required to move banking into the 21st century. 

The biggest banks around the globe use our platform to power some of the world’s most innovative financial propositions. And to do this we’re building an engineering team that has the breadth of knowledge and experience we need to push our product forward. 

We have headquarters in London and Sydney, but our 10x teams work around the globe with employees in Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa and all over the UK and Ireland.

Join us in our mission to transform banking for customers, banks and society!  

Platform Engineering is the function which provides the foundation for the 10x SuperCore providing the runtime environment which abstracts our feature development teams from the underlying infrastructure provision.

Our tech stack

• Golang and Python platform tooling estate
• Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Docker, Helm, Terraform, AWS, GCP

• Kafka, Redis, PostgresSQL
• Jenkins, ConcourseCI, SonarQube, Snyk, Checkmarx
• Java / Spring Boot / Quarkus microservice estate

About you

You know that “perfect is the enemy of great”, and that software engineering isn't about admiring problems but about collaborating to find solutions that work. Your experience of building fast, scalable, distributed systems underscores this.

We believe diversity of thought is crucial in helping us find broader solutions to tough challenges. We have dedicated teams with bags of experience, so the engineers we recruit can stretch their talents regardless of domain background. Your role demands that you’re a self-starter with a passion for software craftsmanship, ready to identify and articulate areas of improvement into deliverable features.

About the role

This is a great opportunity for a Platform Engineering Manager to join the team and own and drive the vision for the service going forward. We are looking for a Platform Engineering Manager who is passionate about working with cutting edge technologies, brings deep technical knowledge and experience with distributed systems to drive technical design and manage an experienced team. They will also become part of a call out team to provide live service to our clients.

Requirements

Ideally you will have…

• Demonstrated strong delivery focus, especially using agile development practices
• Recruited, managed and developed engineering team members

• Coached teams and individuals for high performance
• Strong technical background in working with systems and infrastructure orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes and Terraform. You will have regular contact with the codebase as part of this role, both writing and reviewing.
• Experience managing infrastructure in a public cloud.
• Proponent of CI/CD practices and metrics-driven quality measures
• Owned the technical output of the team.

• Worked on scaled, production systems and services.
• Enjoyed tackling ambiguous problems and establishing a plan and priorities
• Prior experience as an Engineering Manager or Engineering Lead

If you also have experience with any of the following, we’d love to hear from you…

• Dynamic, digital, entrepreneurial, scale-up businesses

• Creation of Kubernetes Operators
• Running Kubernetes on bare metal / outside of public cloud

However...

A desire to get stuck in is more important than ticking every box on our checklist. So, if you’re interested in what we’re building and excited by our mission, get in touch anyway!

Benefits

At 10x Banking, we put our people first – we believe in empowering you to get the job done!

• 25 days of holiday in addition to Bank/Public Holidays (+ 1 day off on your birthday!) 
• 4 wellbeing days (1 additional paid day off per quarter, aimed at supporting you to maintain your personal wellbeing)
• Remote enabled working with office attendance agreed with your line manager
• Regular social gatherings and affinity groups
• Work from anywhere outside your typical working location – up to 4 weeks a year!
 
• Career progression and learning pathways
• 1 paid volunteering day a year
• Enhanced parental policies, including time off for fertility treatment
• Sabbatical leave 
• Options pool
• Private health insurance, with the option to add your family
• Pension scheme
• Public/Bank holiday swaps

• Enhanced company sick pay 
• Life Assurance 
• Income Protection 
• Subscription to Headspace wellbeing app 
• Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
  
  

More about 10x

We are driven by the belief that whatever we do as a business has to be done in the right way. Our three core values of: Transformation, Integrity and Impact support this. 

Discover what life is like at 10x over on Instagram and find out what the company is up to on LinkedIn.

10x Ways of Working

We recognise that a better work/life balance can improve people’s motivation, performance and overall wellbeing. The Covid-19 pandemic changed a lot of things about the way we work, including the enablement of colleagues working from various locations and delivering high performance through the effective use of remote working technology.

10x is a fully ‘remote enabled’ organisation and supports agile working. This role has a minimum office attendance requirement of approx. twice per quarter, in agreement with your line manager.

As all employees are employed on London-based contracts, commuting costs to the office are covered by employees and not by 10x.

Equal opportunities for all

At 10x we are passionate about our people and are committed to fostering a more diverse and inclusive culture. We are building a community where every 10xer can bring their authentic self to work and feel empowered to reach their full potential. Our many employee networks help amplify this vision.  

Alongside assessing technical capabilities to do the role, our assessment process will identify what you can uniquely bring to our 10x teams, and the potential you have to thrive here. Common to every role that 10xers perform, are 3 core competencies that we look for in our future 10xers – Business Impact, Change Driver & Delivery Excellence

We are committed to ensuring all job applicants are treated equally and fairly and encourage applicants of all ethnicities, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, age, neurodiversity or disability status. 

Accommodations

We recognize not everyone is the same. In fact, we embrace difference. If you require any form of accommodation during the interview process, please tell us so we can make arrangements to support. Any information that you provide will be recorded and maintained confidentially.

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