Infrastructure Engineer, Griffin
£60-85k
Full-stack Banking-as-a-Service platform with a banking license
Open for applications
Full-stack Banking-as-a-Service platform with a banking license
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£60-85k
21-100 employees
Company mission
Griffin wants to make it quick, simple, and affordable for innovative fintechs and brands to bring finance to their customers at the point of greatest relevance. Their goal is to simplify the complexity of banking infrastructure and compliance operations, so their customers can focus on what they really care about.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with Kubernetes
- 4+ yrs experience with infrastructure as code
- Strong understanding of IP networking
- Experience with AWS
- A desire to work with small teams in fast-paced start-up environments
- Experience in Clojure or another functional language - Haskell, Elixir, Erlang
Desirable
- Operational experience with Distributed systems (such as Kafka), Datomic, Docker preferred, but not required
What the job involves
- As an Infrastructure Engineer, you'll be responsible for building, operating and monitoring our production infrastructure
- We are a bank that will handle thousands of transactions per second when we start to onboard our customers. Correctness, performance, and reliability are paramount
- Writing infrastructure-as-code to configure our AWS environments in a standard and repeatable way
- Working on underlying aspects of the platform to develop our performance, scalability, and oberservability/monitoring
- Writing internal tools to make monitoring, logging, alerting and debugging easier and faster
- Writing code to take consistent backups our entire system, and then verify the backup is correct
- Writing Clojure to verify our systems are correct after power / network etc. failures
- Writing chatbots to automate common ops runbooks
- Improving our Continuous Deployment pipeline
- DevSecOps
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Griffin is working to change the banking world, which they see as exclusive, opaque, and not particularly technology-friendly. Their aim is to lower barriers to entry for fintechs and increase transparency.
To achieve this, they are designing a wholesale bank from the ground up, focusing on the problems their customers face and following steps to solve them.
Griffin is taking a novel approach, offering a bank-as-a-platform model with integrated compliance to allow customers to get their financial products to market quickly and cost-effectively.
Their systems have the capability to move faster than existing banks burdened by legacy tech and provide new opportunities to financial technology firms over a wide range of business models.
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39% female employees
67% employee growth in 12 months
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Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2024
$24.4m
SERIES A
Jun 2023
$14m
SERIES A
Total funding: $67.9m
Company benefits
- Life insurance through AIG
- Generous stock option grants for everyone at the company
- Private medical insurance through Vitality
- A weekly team lunch on Griffin (even when you're working remotely)
- Auto-enrolment into company pension scheme
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Remote first working culture, If you want to to work from home you can and you can expense your office set up. Equally, we have an office in London where you can work, as well as the ability to work from shared working spaces
- Up to 6 months fully paid parental leave (depending on tenure)
Company values
- Thoughtfulness - Take your time
- Kindness and Empathy - Assume the best of each other
- Resilience - Don't give up easily
- Simple made easy - Reduce complexity where possible
- Security first - Everyone's not out to get us, but some people are
- Transparent - Open by default
- Be Deserving of Trust - We measure ourselves against the highest standard of conduct
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Founders
Allen Rohner
(CTO)Previously founded CircleCI and authored the book Learning ClojureScript with co-founder David
David Jarvis
(CEO)Previously worked as a software engineer at Standard Treasury and Airbnb
Diversity & Inclusion at Griffin
Jenna Baker (Chief People Officer )
- Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your intersection of identities & background. If you're part of a group that is under-represented in fintech, we'd love to hear from you.
- We offer enhanced parental leave for Grifflings - you’re able to take 26 weeks of parental leave. This increases to 52 weeks if you are based in the UK AND you are the birthing parent, the primary-caregiver adopter, or if you and your partner decide to use UK’s Shared Parental Leave.
- We'll pay you in full for 13 weeks of parental leave, and then the greater of 50% pay or London Living Wage for the following 13 weeks, provided you’ve been with us for 6 months on your expected due date or placement date.
- If you have been with us for two years (or more!) by your expected due date or placement date, we will pay you in full for 26 weeks of parental leave
- We are flexible with our approach to work, work from home, the office or a shared working space, it's really up to you! We also are flexible on what hours you work too, we understand that life can sometimes just get in the way and you need to be able to pick up the kids from school.
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