Senior Payments Platform Engineer

United KingdomUnited Kingdom·Londonsenior
EngineeringDevops Engineer
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Quick Summary

Key Responsibilities

Architect and operate our AWS-based payments infrastructure — multi-region, highly available, and designed with financial-grade resilience (active-active

Technical Tools
EngineeringDevops Engineer

Nice to Have

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  • Experience with multi-cloud or cloud-agnostic platform layers in addition to AWS.
  • Platform engineering or developer experience (DevEx) focus — internal tooling, golden paths, and self-service infrastructure.
  • Experience with Solana or EVM blockchain infrastructure (nodes, RPC endpoints, validator operations).
  • Hands-on experience with a policy-as-code tool (OPA, Sentinel) for guardrails on infrastructure provisioning.
  • FinOps certification or deep cost engineering background in a high-throughput payments environment.
  • Experience with HSMs or dedicated key management hardware for PCI-scoped systems.
  • Strong scripting/automation background in Python, Go, or Rust for tooling and platform utilities.
  • Crypto/web3 infrastructure experience — running nodes, managing hot/cold wallet infrastructure.
  • Cloud: AWS (primary) — EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis, MSK Kafka, SQS, SNS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, WAF, Shield
  • IaC: Terraform
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions
  • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)
  • Observability: OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, Grafana/Prometheus
  • Languages (platform tooling): Rust, Python, Bash
  • Blockchain: Solana (programs, RPC nodes, wallet infrastructure)
  • We work in person (London)
  • The pace is intense
  • Expectations are high and impact is immediate

What We Offer

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Base Salary + Equity/Tokens / $450k Liquid comp

Recruiter / HR Call > Founder / CEO Interview > Technical Interview 1 >Technical Interview 2 (CTO)

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
London, United Kingdom
On-site at the office
Who can apply
GB

Listing Details

First seen
May 28, 2026
Last seen
July 23, 2026

Posting Health

Days active
120
Repost count
0
Trust Level
19%
Scored at
September 26, 2026

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techchaintalentSenior Payments Platform Engineer