Platform Engineer

Fresha's Ecosystem
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary to permanent
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 120K

Job location

Remote
Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Unix
Collaborative Software
Distributed Systems
Github
PostgreSQL
Linux System Administration
Queueing Systems
Redis
Ruby
Next.js
Software Engineering
TypeScript
Datadog
Data Storage Technologies
Grafana
SC Clearance
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sentry
Kafka
Front End Software Development
Terraform
Elixir
Pagerduty
Jenkins
Microservices

Job description

Fresha is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer, with a background or hands-on in software development, whether at work (Software Engineer) or on side projects, to join our Platform and Infrastructure Engineering Team. You will be helping to push our platform and engineering department to the next phase, ensuring engineers have the best internal tools, local developer experience and necessary resources to work more efficiently and continue to deliver industry-leading features to our growing platform.

Platform team's mission is to "Improve software development lifecycle to be: Reliable, Secure, Fast & Cost-effective", ensuring we always take the proper steps to prioritise their needs and ability to reach their optimal velocity while optimising our budgets and keeping our costs flexible to meet business objectives. We achieve this by the following:

We build simple, composable components

  • Inspired by Unix philosophy of simplicity and modularity
  • Each service does one thing well
  • Clear interfaces over complex implementations
  • Push complexity to the edges where it belongs

We make adoption optional, value mandatory

  • Engineers choose their tools and approaches
  • Platform features win by being better, not by force
  • Only security and compliance are non-negotiable

We invest in knowledge and automation equally

  • Build with future AI assistance in mind
  • Document context and decisions, not just steps
  • Automate repetitive tasks, * Docker in production and local development
  • AWS EKS
  • Kafka for our asynchronous message queues
  • Elixir / Ruby for main services
  • NextJS/Typescript for our frontend services
  • RDS PostgreSQL for persistent data storage
  • GitHub Action as CI tool of choice - Jenkins & Argo Workflow for legacy pipelines
  • Redis for key/value store
  • Terraform for resource management

What You'll Do

  • Architecture - Define and develop the infrastructure architecture to support multi-region deployments
  • Automation - Seek out processes that can be improved with automation and have internal Developer Experience as the main driver
  • Leadership - Effectively scope and lead projects autonomously
  • Developer Experience - Extend our local development experience offerings for engineers
  • Knowledge Sharing - Enrich knowledge across the department by creating Documentation, SOPs, Runbooks and knowledge-sharing sessions
  • Observability - Extend Monitoring & Observability capabilities
  • Accessibility - Simplifying the process for engineers to access this data
  • Collaboration - Collaborate and enable engineers to do their jobs more efficiently
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Requirements

  • Have experience in software development
  • Demonstrate strong opinions and actively contribute ideas, driving discussions and solutions
  • Are deeply passionate about their work and proactively challenge existing processes to foster continuous improvement
  • Experience working with microservices and distributed systems at scale
  • Have experience with working on cross-team projects
  • Have AWS experience, we use EKS, RDS, S3, Cloudfront and MSK extensively
  • Have an understanding of SLIs, SLOs & SLAs
  • Knowledge of platform and ops concepts such as networking and Linux administration
  • Experience with monitoring tools: Datadog, Grafana, ELK, Sentry and OpsGenie

£90,000 - £120,000 a year

About the company

Fresha is the leading marketplace platform for beauty & wellness trusted by millions of consumers and businesses worldwide. Fresha is used by 130,000+ businesses and 450,000+ stylists and professionals worldwide, processing over 1 billion appointments to date across 120+ countries. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with 12 global offices located across North America, EMEA and APAC. Fresha allows consumers to discover, book and pay for beauty and wellness appointments with local businesses via its marketplace, while beauty and wellness businesses and professionals use an all-in-one platform to manage their entire operations with an intuitive subscription-free business software and financial technology solutions. Fresha's ecosystem gives merchants everything they need to run their business seamlessly by facilitating appointment bookings, point-of-sale, customer records management, marketing automation, loyalty, beauty products inventory and team management. The consumer marketplace unlocks revenue potential for partner businesses by leveraging the power of online bookings and automated marketing through mobile apps and advanced integrations with major tech brands including Instagram, Facebook and Google., Job Description Senior Platform Engineer Central London (3 days per week in the office) Up to £90,000 + Bonus + Benefits You'll be joining one of London's most exciting SaaS company, with over 100 people and a growing in-house engineering function that supports..., Ready for a challenge? Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We're a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it's a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech...

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