Senior Platform Engineer

GoHenry is a UK-based fintech company created by parents to pioneer financial education. More recently, GoHenry moved into Europe and the US by joining forces with French fintech company PixPay and US investing app, Acorns.

Together, Acorns, PixPay, and GoHenry have over 6 million members across 5 countries. We are focused on empowering families with engaging money management tools, educational content, and a seamless product experience that creates financial well-being from birth to adulthood.

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer (Grade 8) to serve as a core technical contributor on our Platform team, designing, building, and owning the infrastructure systems that power GoHenry's products. In this role, you will elevate platform quality, optimize reliability, and directly support customer-facing innovations.

WHAT YOU WILL DO AT GOHENRY:

Hands-on Technical Delivery

• Design, implement, and own infrastructure systems end-to-end, from initial design through to production operation.

• Write high-quality, well-tested infrastructure code using Terraform, Helm charts, and CI/CD pipelines, actively contributing to team-wide standards.

• Take ownership of complex production incidents—diagnosing, resolving, and driving blameless post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence.

• Contribute to architectural discussions with well-reasoned proposals backed by practical experience.

• Stay current with the cloud ecosystem and bring concrete, considered recommendations for tooling and approaches to the team.

Platform Quality & Reliability

• Maintain a consistently high bar for scalability, resilience, and reliability across your areas of ownership.

• Implement and improve observability using meaningful metrics, structured logging, and actionable alerting that surfaces real signals.

• Ensure all infrastructure is version-controlled, reviewable, and reproducible, following infrastructure-as-code principles throughout.

• Design and operate systems with security and compliance in mind—ensuring adherence to industry best practices and supporting audit requirements such as PCI-DSS and SOC 2.

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Work closely with tech squads to help them consume platform capabilities effectively and unblock their delivery.

• Partner with backend, data, and security engineers to align on shared infrastructure patterns and standards.

• Communicate clearly about infrastructure changes, risks, and ongoing work to the teams that depend on the platform.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO GOHENRY:

• Deep, hands-on Google Cloud experience (including GKE and Cloud SQL), with a strong grasp of GCP's networking and security model (experience with Cloudflare is a bonus).

• Strong hands-on Kubernetes skills and a practical understanding of container orchestration in a production environment.

• Proficiency in writing and standardising infrastructure code with Terraform, Helm, and modern CI/CD tooling.

• Proven track record as a strong individual contributor who takes end-to-end ownership of complex technical work.

• Good working knowledge of observability tooling (such as Datadog) to configure metrics, logging, and alerting systems that genuinely inform on-call response.

• A passion for sharing knowledge, mentoring peers, writing documentation, and helping fellow engineers grow.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

All the essentials you would expect, including a workplace pension plan, 33 days of holiday (including public holidays), & great company events local & abroad!

Other Offers:

• GoFlex - Work from Home, Office, or a mix of both

• Your Birthday Day off

• 25 days annual leave, in addition to 8 UK bank holidays

• An excellent Induction & onboarding program with ongoing learning & development throughout your career

• A choice between Bupa Health Cash Plan or Bupa Private Medical

• Death in service – 4x your annual salary from month 1

• Physical and Mental Wellbeing support and platforms for you and your family

• Family-friendly leave policies

• Enhanced maternity leave – 20 weeks full basic pay after 2 years’ service and 26 weeks full basic pay after 3 years’ service

• Paternity leave – 4 weeks full pay after probation

• Salary Sacrifice options

ABOUT GOHENRY

We’re on a mission to help every kid be smart with money. Our goal? Create generations of independent, confident young adults, armed with money skills that will set them up for life.

How we do it: We place the power in the hands of young people, giving them the tools they need to master the financial ropes for themselves. They can spend, save, earn, and give with GoHenry’s prepaid debit card and app – because learning through doing really works (and it’s more fun!). All while our unique built-in controls give parents total peace of mind.

We’re proud to say...

• We ranked #38 in Newsweek's Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in the UK in 2023

• We’re one of Tech Track’s top 50 fastest-growing UK companies.

• We won Finders Kid’s Cards customer Satisfaction Awards in 2022 and 2023.

• We won the Tech for Good award at the Better Society Awards 2023

• Our kids and parents have donated over £500,000 of their own money to NSPCC via their GoHenry accounts

But we’re still growing, and that’s why we need you.

GoHenry is an equal-opportunity employer, and we’re on a mission to foster a diverse & inclusive workplace. Individuals seeking employment at GoHenry are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.