VP of Platform Engineering | Fintech | London (Ideally 1-2 days in London)
A scaling, global fintech, powering top-tier e-commerce, payments, and tech brands is looking for a VP of Platform Engineering to lead the next phase of platform maturity.
This is your opportunity to:
🔧 Build and scale high-performance, secure, cloud-native infrastructure
📦 Lead platform architecture, CI/CD, DevOps tooling, observability, and security
🌍 Impact product lines used across 9+ international markets
💥 Own platform reliability, developer experience, and operational excellence
🧠 Drive a forward-thinking engineering culture focused on velocity and resilience
This is a senior leadership position and requires a deep technical background in architecting and operating high performance platforms, microservices, API-driven development, and distributed systems.
The right candidate will be super focused on the culture and team development, with strong experience of leader (not just managing) in a high growth environment.
You'll bring:
✅ Deep cloud & platform engineering experience (AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC)
✅ Proven leadership of high-performing platform/infrastructure teams
✅ A strategic mindset with the ability to scale systems in complex environments
✅ Experience in high-growth, product-led tech environments (fintech a bonus)
🎯 This is a mission-critical leadership role with real impact on growth, scale, and innovation.