We are looking for an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer to help lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of our cloud infrastructure. Working directly with our Head of Platform Engineering, you will play a key role in shaping the technical future of our product. This position involves a mix of hands-on technical expertise and strategic planning, with a focus on optimizing our systems for scalability, reliability, and maintainability. We are seeking someone with a strong background in building and deploying scalable cloud-native applications on AWS, experience with microservices architecture, and a track record of automating and improving infrastructure processes to improve overall developer experience.
Key Responsibilities
Designing, building, and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS using technologies including EC2, ECS, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, RDS, Cognito, S3, and SNS.
Developing and deploying cloud-native applications following microservice design patterns.
Implementing infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to automate deployment and scaling processes.
Automating deployment pipelines and CI/CD processes to ensure rapid and reliable delivery of software.
Monitoring system performance, troubleshooting issues, and optimizing infrastructure for performance and cost-efficiency.
Collaborating with the development team to ensure seamless integration and deployment of applications.
Ensuring best practices in security, compliance, and data protection are followed across all infrastructure components.
Mentoring and providing guidance to junior engineers, promoting a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Required Qualifications
Strong experience in Go or C# programming languages (ideally both).
Extensive experience in building and deploying scalable cloud-native applications on AWS using technologies including EC2, ECS, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, RDS, Cognito, S3, and SNS.
Experience architecting cloud-native applications following microservice design patterns.
Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
Deep understanding of AWS services, cloud architecture, and best practices.
Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes or ECS.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Github Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.
Strong understanding of networking concepts, security principles, and system monitoring.
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to break down complex problems into manageable tasks.
Track record of designing and implementing scalable, reliable distributed, heterogeneous systems.
Deep knowledge of cloud architecture and development best practices, design principles, and patterns.
Experience working with everything from relational databases though to a multitude of NoSQL stores.
Experience working with technologies, including message queues, event streams, authentication, caching, API hosting, containers, lambdas, FaaS patterns, orchestration / workflow engines and search engines.
Strong communication skills—our ideas are nothing if we cannot communicate them.
Analytical mindset with the ability to articulate your thinking.
Ability to work autonomously and within a team, engaging flexibly to develop solutions.
About Xapien
Every business needs to know who they’re really working with whether it’s suppliers, investors, partners, or third parties. At Xapien, we’re reinventing how organisations do that, combining speed, scale and accuracy with cutting-edge AI.
Since 2018, we’ve grown from a deep-tech startup to a global player in AI-driven due diligence and risk intelligence. 2024 was a landmark year as we closed a $10M Series A, earned recognition in the Chartis RiskTech100® and Everest Group’s Leading 50™, and expanded our products, markets and customer base.
2025 was even bigger: With new regulations, rising compliance pressure and growing reputation risks, organisations everywhere are demanding smarter, faster ways to work and they’re turning to us. Customers worldwide from global law firms and private banks to universities and nonprofits rely on Xapien to turn days of manual research into trusted insights, delivered in minutes.
Our momentum so far:
Customers in a diverse range of industries, with particular growth in wealth management, financial services and supply chain onboarding.
Demand accelerating beyond our UK headquarters, across multiple continents with new customers in the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania.
