Senior Platform Engineer (Data Platform Team)

Who we are

In the last 10 years, Mambu has been revolutionising banking - making it more accessible, more straightforward and more inclusive for everyone. With fresh funding secured and a near €5 billion valuation we have huge ambitions for ourselves and the whole banking sector. 

We bring this same sense of innovation and aspiration to how we support our people. We pioneered the 4 day summer work week, have announced the provision of equity for all and launched Our Mambu Deal to capture how we work with each other and what we offer all Mambuvians.

These are just the beginning. We’ll continue to look for ways to make Mambu an even better place to work.

We’re not here to play it safe. 

We’re here to change the world.

About the team

We strive to provide a reliable self-service platform (infrastructure context) where product teams can provision components they need without interruption, using multi-cloud offerings, ensuring that we deliver consistent services across any cloud. 

The context of scale - when we speak about our existing platform, we mean hundreds of Kubernetes, Kafka and Elastic Search Clusters with thousands of MySQL and PostgreSQL instances.

What you’ll do

• Ensure that the Mambu Cloud Platform is highly available, performs consistently, and the infrastructure can scale without any downtime
• Care deeply about building better solutions for our customers and each other, about doing something that’s never been done before
• Enable development teams to autonomously make use of the platform to deliver product features at a higher pace, using automation wherever possible
• Learn new things and share knowledge and best practices to the team and organisation to improve delivery, ensure accessibility and observability of Mambu Cloud Platform
• Lead and coach team members to the victory, making sure we continuously grow our technical and organisational capabilities

What you’ll bring

• Know how to design, build, secure and support platforms at scale for product & infrastructure stacks - with both open source and proprietary solutions
• Experience automating infrastructure changes using Terraform and building pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps operating model is second nature for you
• Deep understanding of cloud native applications and distributed systems
• Know how to find your way around (preferably in multiple) public cloud providers including managed Kubernetes services and microservices implementations. (This is not an Ops position, however the goal is to create engineering solutions that create painless operational experience)
• Familiar with change, incident management practices and know what on-call duties are
• Automating stuff using Go and/or Python.

On top of it, for Database and messaging Platform team specialisation you have (all or some): Good experience managing: 

• Databases - MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch
• Streaming services - Kafka
• Messaging - RabbitMQ
• Extensive knowledge of database insights
• Experience with database monitoring and alerting at scale
• Understanding about the impact of deployment strategies on Databases
• Knowledge how to setup and run best practices for database management

Your colleagues would say: 

• You love working in a team, nurturing product technical excellence & high quality 
• You understand Agile methodologies inside out and embrace change rather than shunning it
• You work well with other people, see the value of a team, and want to remain a partner for
• You want to make a difference, hone your skills and experiment with new and unconventional tech solutions! 
• You’re not satisfied with what’s already available and have the ambition to revise and improve things.

Mambu’s future

We are a diverse group of Mambuvians, and we are growing fast. Our eyes are on the future, and we believe we can use our technology and our talent to deliver banking experiences for billions that are also sustainable and inclusive and accessible.

Your future

We’re also focused on delivering a fantastic working experience for all Mambuvians. We pioneered the 4 day working week between June - August many years ago, and continue to innovate around how work should feel and how it should get done. Our Mambu Deal is how we articulate this relationship of support and dedication which drives us all forward. 

The base salary for this position is €5.800 gross (before taxes) monthly. This is a full-time equivalent target rate for Lithuania only. Actual rate offered will vary depending on the nature of the role and the breadth of skills and expertise the candidate brings to the role relative to existing Mambuvians.For the rest of the locations where we advertise this role, the starting salary will be discussed during the recruitment process.

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To explore more about Mambu - the mission we’re on, the world we’re building and the values that drive us - get started at mambu.com/careers.

As part of the recruitment (or HR onboarding) process, you will be required to obtain authorised criminal background and credit screening results, as well as be queried against a sanctions/anti-money-laundering/counter terrorism financing/politically exposed persons screening service and your employment is conditional upon approval of these results.

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Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that many job seekers (including women, people of colour and people from diverse backgrounds) are reluctant to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. 

Here at Mambu we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.