Engineering and SRE Lead (Backend)
Myzeller
- London, England, United Kingdom
- London, England, United Kingdom
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This hybrid role requires a unique blend of software engineering and a deep Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) mindset. You’ll use your expertise in software, systems, and cloud engineering to tackle complex production challenges, drive automation, and ensure our services are both innovative and exceptionally dependable.
To excel in this role, you should be a people-oriented leader who is easy to work with, adaptable, and flexible, all while maintaining high standards. You will have extensive experience in software engineering, DevOps, project management, incident management, and team and stakeholder management. You'll also be comfortable managing a mix of direct reports and shared teams, and will be supported by our global teams of engineers, QAs, SREs, and DevOps professionals.
Responsibilities
Oversee the end-to-end development, enhancement, and agile deployment of all UK backend systems.
Collaborate with the Global Technical Committee to contribute to and adopt best practices, platform codes, and frameworks.
Manage suppliers and stakeholders to deliver on business requirements through system enhancements and maintenance. Ensuring high availability in production systems is a critical responsibility of this role.
Own the availability, scalability, latency, and performance of mission-critical services, managing and upholding a 99.999% SLA.
Design, write, and deliver software and automation to improve system reliability and reduce manual procedures.
Build robust automation for monitoring, and proactive issue detection to prevent problem recurrence.
Lead the incident management process, conduct blameless post-mortems, and drive corrective actions to ensure continuous improvement.
Skills & Experiences
Minimum of a Bachelor degree in software engineering (or related)
4+ years of working experience in a technical hands‑on software engineering role
2+ years of working experience in a technical leadership role
Demonstrable experiences in developing mission‑critical systems
AWS Technologies (e.g. ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Aurora, SQS, SNS, VPC, Private Link, etc.)
Multi-threading & Socket Programming: Java + Spring Applications
Typescript and Node.js Applications
Architectures - Event Sourcing, CQRS, Polyglot Database, Traditional OLTP, OLAP
DevOps - Provisioning-based Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD
QA - Practical TDD, BDD
Experiences in payment domains
Proven track record in developing and maintaining mission‑critical, high-load production systems with 99.999% SLA
Proven experience in supporting rapid and agile product deployments across different environments - dev, test, stress‑testing, staging/production.
Motivational team management
Cost control
Bonus points
Experience in working within a high-growth environment in the financial services or fintech industry
Experience in other cloud platforms (Azure, Google)
Experience in other programming languages
Experience with financial regulations and compliance requirements (e.g. GDPR, PCI-DSS)
Benefits
An opportunity to shape and build the future of Zeller from the ground up in the UK
A competitive salary package, including equity from an early stage
A balanced, progressive, and supportive work environment
Endless learning and development opportunities
Excellent parental leave and other leave entitlements
Being part of a fast‑growing and ambitious scale‑up
At Zeller, we celebrate diverse perspectives and experiences, and strongly encourage people of all backgrounds and identities to apply to join our team.
We want you to be able to show up at your best during the recruitment process. Please, let us know if you require any accommodations during your interview process with us.
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Sprachkenntnisse
- English
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