Senior DevOps Engineer

• Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking to innovate?
• Do you want to work in embedded payments where you can keep learning and developing whilst getting hands-on experience?
• Do you want to have the opportunity to play an important role in a rapidly growing and exciting Fintech business?

If so, we would love to connect and collaborate!

We want to hire ambitious, and value-adding talent into Modulr, one of the fastest growing payments businesses in the UK and Europe. Modulr is experiencing significant growth, and in this role you will work in a cross-functional team who are asked to solve a problem, rather than be handed a task to do. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a high-growth environment with a fast-paced and collaborative culture where you will have great opportunities to work on challenging problems.

About us

At Modulr, our vision is a world where all businesses are powered by embedded payments. Modulr enables businesses, from SMEs to Enterprise, initially across the UK and Europe to efficiently pay-in, collect and disburse funds instantly via a range of payment schemes, accounts, and card products.  

We have created an industry-leading API platform with comprehensive online tools and access, to meet the demands of daily business payments. We have two routes to market. Our Core Business Payments product allows customers in any sector to connect to us and our expanding network of accounting and payroll platforms, including Sage, Xero, BrightPay and IRIS to automate payments. Our Vertical Solutions targets a growing range of industry verticals which directly connect their IT platforms to our APIs and webhooks. We solve complex payment problems for hundreds of clients in a range of industries, including Travel, Lending, Wage Advance, and Investment & Wealth.  

We are deeply integrated into the payment eco-system. In the UK, we are direct participants of Faster Payments and Bacs. Modulr hold settlement accounts at the Bank of England. Our payment network connectivity includes CHAPS, Open Banking, SEPA, SWIFT and account issuance in multiple currencies. We are principal issuing members of Visa and Mastercard schemes across UK and Europe.  

Our regulatory permissions and governance structure are the foundations of our business. We are regulated and supervised as an Authorised Electronic Money Institution (AEMI) in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority and in the Netherlands by De Nederlandsche Bank.  

Our founding team has a wealth of experience in the payments industry and growing successful businesses. Modulr is backed by the venture arms of payments giants PayPal and FIS, as well as growth investors Blenheim Chalcot, General Atlantic, Frog Capital and Highland Europe.  

Modulr now has over 400 employees spread globally across offices in London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, and Mumbai. 

Modulr values

• Building the extraordinary; going that extra mile.
• Owning the opportunity; be passionate and proud of the time you invest.
• Move at pace; reach goals faster whilst supported on your career journey.
• Achieve it together, working collaboratively and being a Modulite.

The team 

The platform team is made up of engineers with a range of skills and experiences which complement each other. We believe that in order to work most effectively in such a varied and ever changing technical landscape we need multidisciplinary people who are keen to learn and to lean on each other. Alongside technical delivery we also hold an evangelical role where we champion best practice and empowerment in our development teams.

Specific duties

Depending on the project, you will need to be comfortable doing the following:

• You’ll be part of an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and, above all, passionate team. We would like you to display these same attributes and display proven knowledge about cloud and automation, systems administration, and infrastructure management;
• You'll thrive when working on problems from identification to resolution and looking to solve any recurring tasks or issues through automation;
• You’re comfortable working in a scaling business, where time is critical, and things change on a regular basis;
• You enjoy positively challenging the way things are done and want to join a business that is focused on constantly improving;
• You have well thought-out opinions about how technologies and tool sets can be used to create elegant solutions and are happy sharing these;
• You care about the quality and integrity of the outputs from your team and want to work with people who care;
• You share your knowledge with the team, and with the wider engineering community here at Modulr;
• You can find the right balance of speed and accuracy when prioritising and take responsibility for seeing things through to a high standard.

About you

A successful Frontend Engineer will have a track-record in delivering results in a fast-moving business and hence be comfortable with change and uncertainty. Excellent stakeholder management experience is essential to being successful in this role.

• Building, observing and scaling a highly available, 24x7 platform
• Experience working with AWS
• Experience with communicating with external teams and building strong relationships outside of your immediate team
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
• Experience working with Kubernetes, preferably using AWS EKS
• Experience automating / maintaining CI/CD pipelines in a Linux, Apache, Java, PostgresSQL stack
• Experience working with Microservices architecture
• Experience bring new ideas and technologies to a team
• Experience of being an incident responder

ModInclusion

At Modulr, we are working hard to build a more positive diverse and inclusive culture that helps everyone to feel they belong and can truly bring their whole self to work. Not only is it the right thing to do for everyone in the Modulr team, it’s also the right thing to do for our business, the community we operate in and attracting future talent. As part of our approach, we actively welcome applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds.