Platform Engineer

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About Us

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.

Our Littlepay Values

• Trust and be trustworthy
• Embrace challenge
• Solve problems, together
• Deliver with speed and agility
• Be candid and kind

About The Opportunity

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

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Littlepay engineering function through tooling, guidance and education
• Maintain and improve cost-effective and scalable PCI-compliant infrastructure
• Build and maintain robust automated systems
• Write and maintain internal tools, services and documentation
• Join the on call roster for our platform
• Do a little grinding from time to time

About YouCore Skills and Attributes

• 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 communication
• Empathy — high empathy for internal stakeholders
• A love of learning — commitment to learning and growth

Skills

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

Benefits

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
• A variety of flexible leave options
• Superannuation contributions on all paid parental leave payments
• A company-wide paid day off
• Flexible public holiday program
• Flexible (hybrid) working conditions
• Wellbeing support, including access to wellbeing resources
• Employee referral program
• Corporate and team events and workshops
• Short-term remote working arrangements
• International travel opportunities (dependent on role)

In-Office Expectations

In-person collaboration is valued. For those assigned to an office location, a minimum two-day presence in the office each week is generally expected. This may vary by role, team, and location. Details will be provided by your hiring manager.

We aim to balance in-person connection with flexibility while supporting our goal to move more people through better payment experiences.

Our Recruitment Process

If shortlisted, you'll chat with our Talent team and may complete a workplace preferences questionnaire. After an initial interview, you'll meet with a second group and may participate in the final stage before an offer. If you require accommodations at any stage, please let us know. We encourage applications from diverse candidates and those who might bring fresh perspectives.

Being part of our small but mighty team offers the chance to learn about micropayments and contribute to our product roadmap as we scale globally. If this opportunity interests you, hit apply

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

Seniority level

• Not Applicable

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Industries
• Construction

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