Fintech - Engineering Manager

OVERVIEW:

Are you passionate about building and scaling modern cloud-native infrastructure to power high-impact products in the fast-moving world of FinTech?

We're looking for an experienced and versatile Engineering Manager - DevOps to lead a talented DevOps and platform engineering team responsible for building resilient infrastructure, automating deployment pipelines, managing observability tooling, and ensuring our systems are scalable, secure, and performant.

You'll play a critical role in enabling product engineering teams to ship reliably at pace - supporting our customer-facing platform and mission-critical third-party integrations, including payment processors, BNPL providers, fraud services, and financial data platforms.

You'll work with a modern, cloud-first stack, including Kubernetes (EKS), AWS Lambda, Java Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and more, and lead infrastructure evolution, and best practice adoption across DevOps.

If you thrive in a high-impact, high-autonomy environment and enjoy driving operational excellence and platform scalability at scale, we'd love to meet you.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

Infrastructure & Platform Leadership:

- Lead a DevOps / Cloud Engineering team focused on infrastructure-as-code, system reliability, deployment automation, and cloud-native architecture.

- Drive automation across infrastructure and operational workflows - including deployments, database upgrades, and failover processes - with the goal of achieving zero-downtime for critical services.

- Own and enhance our CI/CD pipelines, ensuring high-quality, fast, and repeatable delivery processes.

- Guide architectural decisions across infrastructure layers, from API Gateway and container orchestration to observability and secrets management.

Observability, Security & Reliability:

- Ensure platform availability, observability, and performance through applying relevant tools and robust alerting practices.

- Drive a culture of "You build it, you run it," promoting shared ownership of availability, SLAs, and incident response.

- Champion secure practices across infrastructure, including centralised identity (Active Directory), network segmentation, and least privilege access.

Team Leadership & Culture:

- Foster a high-trust, inclusive, and continuously improving team environment.

- Grow and support a high-performing Cloud Engineering team; recruit top talent and foster a strong team culture centred on ownership, experimentation, and learning.

- Actively contribute to strategic planning, platform roadmapping, and technology investment decisions.

ABOUT YOU:

- Proven experience leading DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering teams, ideally in a fast-paced FinTech or SaaS environment.

- Experience architecting and operating multi-region active-active with a strong understanding of trade-offs around latency, failover, data consistency, and cost.

- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred), containerisation, and managing modern CI/CD pipelines.

- Deep knowledge of AWS cloud services (Lambda, EC2, S3, EventBridge, Step Functions, API Gateway) and infrastructure-as-code practices (, Terraform or CloudFormation).

- Familiar with observability tooling and logging/monitoring best practices.

- Experience administering RDS for PostgreSQL / Aurora and working with tools like AWS DMS, Snowflake, and QuickSight for data operations.

- Solid understanding of security, identity (Active Directory), and access control in cloud environments.

- Proven track record of automating DevOps processes to minimise manual intervention and support zero-downtime deployments, including areas like database upgrades, configuration changes, and traffic shifts.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to work cross-functionally and influence without authority.

- Passionate about building resilient systems, reducing operational toil, and fostering a strong DevOps culture across the entire Technology department.

PROJECTS YOU'LL OWN:

- Here is a few examples of projects you'll led & own hands-on:

- EKS Upgrade: Continue to develop, deploy and maintain our EKS structure, ensuring security and patch management is first priority.

- RDS Upgrade: Lead our continued development and improvement of RDS on PostgreSQL - ensuring continued reliability & speed.

- Defining our strategy for our move to Insurance (Employee, spouse, and two children) optional cover for parents or in laws.

Leave: 15 personal days per year + Festival holidays.

You can also take your birthday off as paid leave, and we offer a paid day off for any charity work you want to participate in.

Social: Monthly team outings & incentives.

Some of our recent ones include- Hackathon, Lunch and Learns and team building games.

ABOUT APEXX:

APEXX is a dynamic Fintech scale-up founded in 2016 with the goal of creating cutting-edge payment technology.

Our vision is to be the payment industry's most merchant-centric provider.

Through our platform a merchant can connect via a simple API connection to the world's payment ecosystem, increasing conversion at lower cost and satisfying their entire payments needs.

We excel at bringing transparency, efficiency, and competition to the payments market.

The team is incredibly committed and enthusiastic about what we are building - top of the class payments solutions and a valuable business.

This is infectious and creates a wonderful office atmosphere.

We have a supportive, relaxed yet high-performing, and high trust culture.