Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer at Littlepay.

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We're Littlepay - a growing fintech headquartered in Melbourne with operations in the UK, EU, LATAM, USA, and Australia. Our payments platform enables our customers to pay for public transport using any payment card, mobile wallet, or wearable device. Processing over USD 1 billion a year in 13 countries and continuing to expand globally, we're proud to move more people through better payment experiences.

The Littlepay Platform Team provides tooling and support for our Engineering organisation, owns shared and fundamental infrastructure, and collaborates with teams for their DevOps or infrastructure projects. Reporting to the Platform Engineering Manager, you'll encourage and grow DevOps practices across Engineering through tooling, vendor management, and education. You'll also work on and be on call for our base infrastructure across the platform, including the network, ECS runtime, PKI and RDS.

• Support the Littlepay engineering function through tooling, guidance and education
• Join the on call roster for our platform
• Consider and improve the Littlepay software ecosystem across the full build-test-deploy-release-monitor cycle
• Maintain, improve and design cost-effective and scalable PCI-compliant infrastructure
• Mentor and support platform team members
• Stay up-to-date with AWS services and industry trends
• Write and maintain internal tools, services and documentation
• Collaborate with engineers from across the organisation

Ideally, you'll have:

• Minimum 5 years' experience in DevOps, Cloud or Platform engineering
• Programming and Scripting — any language, familiarity with Go, Bash and Java preferred
• The Cloud — strong cloud skills with any provider, AWS preferred
• Communication — strong written and verbal skills
• Empathy — a service mindset for internal stakeholders
• A love of learning — commitment to learning and growth

To complement the skills of our existing team members, we would be keen to hear from anyone with a background in any one (or more) of the following:

• Observability
• SRE
• Authentication and authorisation
• Scaling serverless cloud systems
• Linux
• PKI

We love to look after our people. At Littlepay, you'll be part of an inclusive and diverse team that celebrates the differences and unique gifts we each bring to work.

• A high trust working environment with cloud collaboration tools
• Paid professional development (conferences, courses, learning subscriptions, etc.)
• Harrison Assessments for continuous professional development
• Flexible leave options
• Superannuation contributions on all paid parental leave payments
• A company-wide paid day off
• Flexible (hybrid) working conditions
• Wellbeing support including School of Life subscriptions and counselling options
• Employee referral program
• Corporate and team events and workshops
• Short-term remote working arrangements
• International travel opportunities (dependent on role)

We believe great work happens when we solve problems together. For those in office locations, we generally expect a minimum two-day presence in the office each week, with variations by role and location. Your hiring manager will provide details relevant to your role.

We aim to balance in-person connection and flexibility while staying connected to delivering with speed and agility as we scale.

If you've been shortlisted, you'll have a chat with our Talent team to set up interviews, plus a brief workplace preferences questionnaire. After initial interviews, you'll meet with additional Littlepay team members and may be invited to a final stage before an offer. If you require accommodations, please let us know. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and those who might bring fresh perspectives.

Ultimately, being part of our small but mighty team means you'll learn about micropayments and help scale our platform as we expand globally. If this opportunity interests you, hit apply. We commit to respond to every applicant.

Littlepay are a 2025 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.