About Us
YouLend is a rapidly growing FinTech that is the preferred embedded financing platform for many of the world’s leading e-commerce platforms, tech companies, and Payment Service Providers. Our software platform enables our partners to extend their value proposition by offering flexible financing products in their own branding, to their merchant base, without capital at risk.
We are owned by the leading Private Equity company, EQT, and have grown +100% year-on-year since 2020. We are headquartered in London, UK, but are also present in several European countries as well as the United States where we service our partners, including eBay, Amazon, Just Eat, Shopify, and Stripe.
The Role
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in building scalable infrastructure and deployment systems across YouLend’s cloud ecosystem. You will be responsible for standardising infrastructure as code, improving developer workflows, contributing to CI/CD design, and enabling self-service deployment models through automation and governance. This role is part of the Architecture Team within the Platform group.
Requirements
Responsibilities:
* Design and implement infrastructure using Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, and Kubernetes
* Build and manage scalable CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
* Define and enforce platform standards across environments (dev, staging, prod)
* Collaborate with developers and DevOps on deployment tooling and security
* Enable platform observability using tools like Datadog, Prometheus, and CloudWatch
* Maintain Helm charts and Terraform modules for shared infrastructure
* Contribute to onboarding documentation and platform adoption practices
* Participate in incident response and postmortem analysis, where applicable
The ideal candidate will have the following skillset:
* Strong experience with Terraform, Pulumi and Helm in multi-account AWS environments
* Expert-level knowledge of AWS (VPC, EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, Control Tower, Transfer Family, Transit Gateway, Multi-account hosted zones, etc.) with practical experience in designing large-scale cloud solutions.
* Proven software engineering experience (any language) and willingness to learn C#, TypeScript, Python
* Proven full-stack engineering experience (front end, backend, APIs, databases)
* Proficient in Kubernetes (EKS preferred), including RBAC, autoscaling, and Helm-based deployment
* Solid experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps Pipelines, etc.)
* Familiarity with containerisation using Docker and secure image management
* Scripting or programming experience in Bash, Python, or TypeScript
* Strong understanding of GitOps practices and infrastructure lifecycle management
Desirable skills:
* Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Fluent Bit)
* Knowledge of admission controllers, OPA/Gatekeeper (optional for governance)
* Familiarity with cloud cost optimisation and Kubernetes scaling strategies
* Exposure to security scanning tools (tfsec, Trivy, Snyk)
* Interest in mentoring and platform evangelism within the wider engineering team
Salary Range: £65,000-£90,000 DOE
Benefits
Why join YouLend?
* Award-Winning Workplace: YouLend has been recognised as one of the “Best Places to Work in 2024 and 2025” by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace.
* Award-Winning Fintech: YouLend has been recognised as a “Top 250 Fintech Worldwide” company by CNBC.
It’s just getting fun:
* We have developed powerful solutions, won some significant partnerships, and are growing at a rapid pace.
* But the global opportunity is still massive, and YouLend is a raw organisation where we are only just getting started.
Lots of upsides:
* High-growth (>100% growth during 2022 and 2023), so clear outlook to compensation (bonus or share option appreciation) and career growth (through growth with business).
* Well-capitalised with supportive private equity backing.
* Part of Banking Circle Group with a fully licensed Luxembourg bank, which can provide a balance sheet and support European expansion in otherwise complex regulated markets.
Motivating work environment:
* A high-quality team that pushes each other to succeed through direct feedback and aligned incentives.
* Strong and transparent team culture, we have each other’s backs.
* Independent work environment where results matter.
* Data-driven culture and emphasis on speed (anti-red tape).
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
* Stock Options
* Private Medical insurance via Vitality and Dental Insurance with BUPA
* EAP with Health Assured
* Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
* Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London
* Free Gym in office building in Holborn
* Subsidised Lunch via Feedr
* Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office
* Monthly in office Masseuse
* Team and Company Socials
* Football Power League / Paddle and Yoga Club
At YouLend, we champion diversity and embrace equal opportunity employment practices. Our hiring, transfer, and promotion decisions are exclusively based on qualifications, merit, and business requirements, free from any discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, religion, nationality, or any other protected basis under applicable law.