Platform Engineer

Our Mission

Bud's mission is simple. We're here to create the world’s most compelling financial data products. The products we're building are used by some of the world's most prestigious institutions to help millions of their customers take control of their finances.

Your Mission‍‍

Our Platform Engineers at Bud are quintessential in the operation of Bud's infrastructure by ensuring our complex distributed systems are always running smoothly. They are our Linux problem solvers and work continuously with our Developers to design inventive solutions to maintain system reliability and scalability. This opportunity offers the right person the chance to build services to be used by Bud and our ever growing network of FinTech partners.

What impact will you make

• Challenge our current infrastructure and improve it
• Prepare our platform for mass adoption and scale
• Explore cutting-edge server, deployment and hosting technologies
• Design solutions for our unique problems involving big data in collaboration with our data scientists
• Contribute towards delivering the most secure platform in finance technology

A bit about you

• You’ll have a firm grasp of programming and/or scripting languages (e.g. Go, PHP, Python)
• A strong familiarity with CI\CD methodologies, chat-ops etc
• You’ll be experienced in designing solutions within microservices based architectures
• Have a strong understanding of containerisation with Kubernetes and Docker
• Experienced in Systems Engineering and Troubleshooting (Linux)
• The confidence to challenge our tech and work with us to provide better solutions
• Be comfortable with being on our on-call rota with our team

Taking it to the next level

• Knowledge from designing and delivering secure, fail-safe systems and architecture
• Strong server-side experience, especially with Linux, Nginx and scripting languages
• Cloud hosting experience, including Google Cloud

Engineering at Bud

The software engineering teams are tasked with solving highly technical problems to enable solutions that tangibly benefit the lives of millions of people. From how to scale our solutions to tens of millions of users in the most effective manner of integrating hundreds of third-party businesses. Data is key to our business and we need passionate developers to help capture it, store it, transform it, research and most importantly secure it.

A bit more about us

We’re a diverse group of people. With backgrounds ranging from data science to music production, more than 80% of our team come from outside the world of finance – providing us with a unique perspective as we help consumers feel more in control of their lives. For us, an interest in people comes first; finance follows.

More about what we're doing

The apps and infrastructure we’re building are designed to place the power of personal data back into the hands of normal people. Picture this: a world where your bank knew you were paying too much for your gas bill and could switch you to a more suitable provider, or understood your savings targets and could automatically find you a better deal. That’s what we’re working towards.

We believe that diversity will make us better.

Bud’s mission is to make the money part of people’s lives simple. To get there, we need a workforce that is diverse as the people we create our products for. Which means we need people who have different backgrounds and experiences, who are diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and ways of thinking. We truly believe that these differences will make us grow as a company and a team. We strive to create a workplace and culture where our people are empowered, supported, given equal opportunities and can bring their authentic selves to work.

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Benefits

Compensation

We offer competitive salaries in line with industry benchmarks, set using extensive market data. We review salaries on an annual basis to make sure we continue to reward people well for their contributions at Bud. We have benchmarked this role between £75,000-£100,000.

Career Progression

We all know how important it is to make sure we’re all growing in our roles. We have a detailed career progression framework to help you track your development and growth during your time at Bud, and your level within this framework will be formally reviewed every six months.

Wellbeing ️‍ ️‍ ️

We understand how important it is to look after your physical and mental health, and also that this looks different for everyone. To support this, we offer a range of wellbeing benefits for our team. We have private medical insurance as well as a £50 monthly flexible wellbeing allowance. We also partner with the mental health platform, Spill, who provide therapy services and support.

Learning & Development

As part of our commitment to developing our people, all employees at Bud have an annual £1000 pot available to use towards their learning and development - think books, courses & events - the choice is yours.

We also have quarterly R&D days, giving you the opportunity to take a break for 2 days from live projects and work on something that’s inspired you, either independently or as part of a collaborative team.

Flexible Working

As a trusted member of Bud, you’ll have the freedom and flexibility to manage your time and routine in a way that suits you, and your team, allowing you to deliver your best work. All of our roles can be based in our London office, or fully remote/distributed in the UK.

Time Off ️

We’re a team that likes to work hard, so we need to make sure we balance this with time to rest and relax. We offer 25 days holiday, plus the usual bank holidays, plus additional time off over the holiday season.

We also give everyone two days of paid volunteering leave per year, to spend time on projects and initiatives that matter to you.

Pension

We believe in helping our staff save for retirement, with Bud matching pension contributions up to 5%.

Equipment

We’ll get you all set up to work effectively and comfortably from Day 1 with an Apple laptop and any additional equipment you might need to work remotely.

Social

We’re big on keeping Bud a social place to work, with big quarterly events (we throw an epic summer party) and regular team socials.

Commuting

We are big advocates of sustainable transport and travel, and are members of a cycle to work scheme. We also have season ticket loans available.