Platform Engineer

We’re Littlepay - a growing fintech headquartered in Melbourne with operations in the UK, EU, LATAM, USA, and more recently, Australia. Our payments platform enables our customers to pay for public transport using any payment card, mobile wallet, or wearable device. Processing over 100 million transactions in 13 countries and continuing to expand globally, we’re proud to move more people through better payment experiences.

Our Littlepay values:

• Trust and be trustworthy
• Embrace challenge
• Solve problems, together
• Deliver with speed and agility
• Be candid and kind

The Platform Engineer will encourage and support DevOps practices across Engineering from a centralised Platform team, through tooling, vendor support, and training.

Key Responsibilities

This role calls for a DevOps enthusiast who can use their experience to:

• drive improvement of DevOps practises across engineering, through tooling, workshops, pairing, presentations, etc.
• consider and improve the Littlepay software ecosystem across the full build-test-deploy- release-monitor cycle
• maintain and improve build systems to the level of security required in a PCI environment
• support standard devops tooling across the business

You’ll also be required to:

• write and maintain internal tools and services
• support the Littlepay engineering function
• do some grinding from time to time

Core Skills and Attributes

• programming — any language. Familiarity with Java and Go 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:

• 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
• “The cloud” — we use AWS, but the key here is experience with fundamental cloud services: network, storage, compute
• observability — have strong opinions about logs, traces, metrics, and alarms born from experience, experience with Honeycomb and CloudWatch preferred

If you’ve been shortlisted for the role, you’ll first have a chat with our Talent team, who will set up an interview if the stars align. A short workplace preferences questionnaire will also be sent to help us learn more about the way you prefer to work. Following a successful first interview, you’ll be invited to meet with a second set of Littlepay folks and participate in the final stage before being presented with an offer.

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process or if you require any accommodations for any stage in the interview process, please don’t hesitate to let us know. Additionally, if you don’t meet all of the criteria (we know that some underrepresented groups tend to avoid applying if they don’t), please still apply. We really enjoy meeting people who might bring a fresh perspective on a problem we need to solve!

Ultimately, being part of our small but mighty team means you'll have the opportunity to learn about micropayments, and have a hand in the provision of services that impact millions of people. You’ll help us deliver on our revolutionary product roadmap and help scale our platform as we continue to expand across the globe.

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, learning subscriptions, etc.)
• Harrison Assessments - our talent management provider that facilitates continuous professional development
• A variety of flexible leave options (including annual, personal, volunteer, parental, grandparental, gender affirmation, and more)
• Superannuation contributions on all paid parental leave payments
• A company-wide paid day off
• Our flexible public holiday program
• Flexible (hybrid) working conditions
• Wellbeing support- including a free School of Life subscription for all employees, and counselling via the School of Life (UK) or our EAP program (Australia)
• Our generous employee referral program
• Mid-year, quarterly, and end-of-year corporate and team events and workshops
• Short-term remote working arrangements
• International travel opportunities (dependent on role)

You’ll also be able to take up the numerous other benefits that working at Littlepay affords you - including being part of a growing community of innovators at Stone and Chalk, where we enjoy lunch ‘n’ learns, summertime barbeques, ping pong tournaments, fortnightly drinks, catered breakfasts and morning teas, and more.

If this opportunity interests you, hit apply! We look forward to learning about you.

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