Staff Cloud Engineer, Chetwood
Plus bonus scheme
Digitally native financial services
Job no longer available
Digitally native financial services
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
Plus bonus scheme
201-500 employees
Company mission
To challenge every aspect of how financial services firms operate today.
Role
Who you are
- Infrastructure
- Proficiency in cloud infrastructure design, deployment and management
- Extensive experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS and others
- An understanding of AWS networking concepts and experience with VPCs, VPNs, PrivateLink and Transit Gateway
- Strong understanding of IaC (Infrastructure as Code), GitOps, CICD automation including use of tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions and Jenkins
- Platform Engineering – building out a capability to achieve a low-touch/friction experience for engineering users with appropriate, paved roads and guardrails
- Developer Experience – helping to identify issues, proposing and driving forward solutions that will benefit engineering teams as a whole
- Communication – good communication skills, you are able to communicate with engineering teams and other stakeholders so that they understand and buy in to your proposals
- Problem Solving – you enjoy the challenge of solving complex engineering problems and designing & implementing large scale systems (and the challenges this can entail)
- Automation & efficiency – you look for ways to increase productivity and flow by removing manual work from both engineering teams and the solutions that the teams build
- Quality mindset – you care about building high quality systems and have experience of building a quality culture in teams
- Care – you understand that people are the heart of our engineering team and enjoy coaching / mentoring others to help them grow and develop their skills and progress their career
Desirable
- Experience with a programming language such as Python and/or shell scripting is desirable
- Awareness of a multi-account AWS setup including use of Organisations, Control Tower, Guard Duty, Config and Account Factory to provide an effective AWS landing zone solution for engineers
- Awareness of DORA engineering metrics and SPACE Framework
- Awareness of security best practices and implementation, e.g. the Principle of Least Privilege
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Cloud Engineer to join the team at Chetwood as a Staff Cloud Engineer
- As part of the engineering leadership you will contribute to the technology vision for Chetwood and help to set the bar for all of the engineering work we do
- You will provide technical leadership for the engineering teams helping them to understand & align their work with achieving the business goals and working with them to ensure we design and build robust, reliable, secure systems
- You’ll be the driving force to solve the hardest technology challenges, improve engineering practices and support other engineers through coaching and mentoring to help them develop
- Design, and implement highly scalable, reliable, maintainable, and secure infrastructure solutions
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to design and implement new capabilities and functionality to support them
- Participate in code and design reviews, and provide guidance to other team members
- Use your knowledge and experience to lead architectural discussions in the team, and contribute to the overall System Architecture
- Help the team manage the trade-offs when shipping new capabilities and features – balancing business priorities, polish, and our internal customers’ needs
- Work closely with engineering teams to understand their requirements and translate them into engineering designs and solutions with the appropriate trade-offs
- Ensure that solutions being built are observable, secure and operable for the team to be able to manage system health and availability
- Lead by example, raising the bar for software engineering, across all disciplines throughout the SDLC, ensuring that systems are delivered in line with our engineering principles, with appropriate documentation and using recognised design patterns
- Support teams in adopting and embedding good software engineering practices / standards and implementing metrics to monitor them
- Promote the benefits of good engineering practices with senior stakeholders across the organisation
- Invest in automation across all aspects of the work we do to ensure practices and processes are repeatable, controlled and reliable
- Demonstrate an ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver cloud-based solutions aligned with business OKRs
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Consumer frustration with traditional banking is rising steadily. Chetwood is one of a crop of digital-led financial services companies looking to take a more customer-centric approach to banking.
Chetwood markets itself as a digitally native bank which creates targeted products that are designed to better serve individual customers' needs. The company was founded by a former HSBC and Bank of America executive, which has helped Chetwood to identify crucially underserved sectors of the banking market. In 2022, Chetwood acquired long-term partner Yobota, which has allowed it to expand its BaaS offerings considerably.
Digital banking is a fast-growing and incredibly competitive market, and Chetwood will have to compete with both legacy banks (which are becoming increasingly digitised) and new disruptors, such as Zopa and Tymit. However, the company has displayed impressive agility and ambition. For example, Chetwood released its challenger credit card Wave in 2022. With its flexible approach to late payments, Wave is likely to attract a considerable user base in the coming years.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
21% female employees
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2020
$12.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2018
$64.5m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $77.4m
Company benefits
- Life insurance
- Pension
- Private medical insurance (incl. dental & vision)
- Free breakfast & drinks
- Monthly social events
Company values
- That a target market should be a target market - We know that customers have different needs. So, instead of creating one product to try and address them all, we create specific products for individual groups of customers. We do this so we can create better products for our customers
- That banking products are too generic - Sure, there are a lot more apps out there, but the fundamental products are just the same. We want our products to be dynamic, so we built the world’s first Reward Loan, where the rate reduces as the credit score increases
- In clear, conduct-friendly product design - We design every element of our products, reviewing each feature and re-assessing its value. We’re clear and transparent. We test every part of the journey and every line of copy with our target market until we’re certain they clearly understand it
- That technology can hold you back - That’s why we build ours from scratch. We use a low cost, full stack banking model leveraging a cloud-based supply chain of partners. This gives us the flexibility to stand up new products quickly and to change features and pricing in real time
- That digital should be cheaper - Our costs are kept low by using serverless technologies to support extreme digital journeys. We offer pre-approved, real rate journeys, with digital contact only through onboarding and servicing. This keeps costs low for our customers.
- That you can never have too much data - At the core of all our products is leading data and analytics capabilities. Data, AI and machine learning enhance our decision making and deliver better returns. For our customers, data-sharing with partners enables a seamless one-click buying journey
Company HQ
Wrexham, UK
Founders
Andy Mielczarek
(CEO)Previously worked as the Head of Customer Service at HSBC, and was CFO of Marks and Spencer Financial Services. Also worked as First VP of Commercial Finance for Bank of America.
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