Platform engineer

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><em>Hybrid with travel to Bath, London and Edinburgh a couple times a month</em></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>About us</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform, on a mission to help more people invest, and invest well.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re building the infrastructure behind the next generation of investing. Our technology already powers some of the UK’s most ambitious fintechs, banks, financial advisers and wealth firms, with close to a million investors relying on Seccl-powered platforms. And we’re now expanding into Europe.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’ve got a proven product, strong momentum and big ambitions for what comes next: helping more household-name brands launch and scale investment propositions, entering new markets and replacing outdated investment infrastructure with technology that’s faster, simpler and built for scale.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re proud to be part of Octopus, one of the UK’s most successful privately held investment and technology groups. That gives us the backing and long-term perspective to build something substantial, while keeping the pace and energy of a high-growth business. Seccl and Octopus are both B Corp certified and share a belief that profit and purpose should go hand in hand.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">If you want to help shape the future of investing in the UK and across Europe, you’ll be in good company.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Check out the Seccl <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="Hyperlink SCXW179206536 BCX0" href="https://seccl.tech/"><u>website</u></a> to see what we’re building and read more about our <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="Hyperlink SCXW179206536 BCX0" href="https://seccl.tech/about/"><u>mission</u></a> to shape the future of investments.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>The role </strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're looking for a <strong>Platform engineer</strong> to shape and evolve the platform that underpins our investment products. You’ll be someone who loves understanding engineering problems and enabling teams to self-serve their needs. You view the cloud platform as a product, and engineering as your customer.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>The role is within our </strong>Cloud Resilience team - a critical squad within our engineering organisation responsible for empowering squads to <strong>build and run their own services.</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re primarily in <strong>AWS</strong>, utilising <strong>Lambda, ECS, SQS, EventBridge, API Gateway, Aurora, Redshift</strong> among others. Our main data store is <strong>MongoDB Atlas and</strong> our observability platform is <strong>Datadog</strong>. Our application is written in <strong>Typescript/NodeJS</strong> and our infrastructure is defined in <strong>Terraform</strong>.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>On a typical day you will be…</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Architecting,