Senior Platform Engineer

About us We’re Littlepay - a growing fintech headquartered in Melbourne with operations in the UK, EU, LATAM, USA, and Australia. Our payments platform enables our customers to pay for public transport using any payment card, mobile wallet, or wearable device. Processing over USD 1 billion a year in 19 countries and continuing to expand globally, we’re proud to move more people through better payment experiences. About the opportunity The Littlepay Platform Team provides tooling and support for our Engineering organisation, owns shared and fundamental services, and collaborates with teams for their DevOps or infrastructure projects. Joining the Infra side of the team, you’ll be working closely with your Infra team mates and with the Platform Devex team on build systems, production support, and PCI-compliant infrastructure. You’ll encourage and support DevOps practises through tooling, vendor management and support. You’ll also work on and be on call for our base infrastructure across the platform, including networking, ECS runtime, PKI and RDS. Key Responsibilities This role calls for a self-sufficient engineer who can use their experience to: Support devops practises by maintaining tooling infrastructure and providing day-to-day troubleshooting Join the on-call roster for our platform across weekdays, overnights and weekends Consider and improve the Littlepay software ecosystem across the full build-test-deploy- release-monitor cycle Maintain, improve and design cost-effective and scalable PCI-compliant infrastructure Mentor and support platform team members Stay up-to-date with AWS services and industry trends Write and maintain internal tools, services and documentation Support the Littlepay engineering function About You: Core Skills and Attributes Programming and Scripting — any language, familiarity with Java, Go and Bash preferred Communication — we do a lot of communicating and strong written and verbal will be important Empathy — we’re a service provider, so having high empathy for our internal stakeholders is a big deal A love of learning — we take learning and growth seriously and you’ll need to be down with that For this role we are specifically looking for candidates who are strong in: AWS — especially serverless runtime and cloud networking DevOps — releasing software is your jam, you know what a DORA metric is and how to use it to improve processes, experience with Buildkite preferred DevSecOps — security is at the heart of everything we do, so must be considered a fundamental part of the DevOps cycle Our Benefits We love to look after our people. At Littlepay, you'll be part of an inclusive and diverse team that celebrates the differences and unique gifts we each bring to work. You’ll have access to: A high trust working environment, with access to cloud collaboration tools like Notion, Slack, Miro, Google Workspace, and Jira to help us work together effectively Paid professional development (including conferences, courses, lea...