Platform Engineer

slice A new bank for a new India slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good, because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us. Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, and slice business are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital. About the team Everything that you see on the internet - developers made it. Even the page that you’ve opened right now and are reading this very line from - a developer. At slice, we’re trying to build a world class product and that takes some crazy, world class engineers. A team so supportive - even if you miss a ‘; ’ in your code, they gotyour back till the code runs successfully. About the role We’re looking for a Platform Engineer – 2 who can drive initiatives that improve developer experience (DevEx), accelerate release cycles, build scalable internal platforms and improve the developer productivity. This role is a hands-on engineering and strategy, with strong emphasis on building tools, frameworks, and platforms that directly impact developer velocity and productivity. What You Will Do - Contribute to the Developer Experience (DevEx) Platform Engineering team, taking up key initiatives and execution roadmap. - Design and build internal tools/platforms that optimize CI/CD, testing frameworks, infrastructure workflows and other automations that enables developer to deliver faster. - Drive adoption of cloud-native solutions (Kubernetes, AWS, ephemeral environments, service monitoring tools). - Partner with engineering leaders to align developer experience initiatives with org-wide goals & OKRs. - Champion best practices around continuous delivery, developer efficiency, and operational excellence. - Evangelize team’s work internally (workshops, training, cross-team adoption) and externally (conferences, blogs, OSS). - Mentor engineers, foster innovation, and build a culture of experimentation & learning. What You Will Need - 3-5 years in software engineering with at least 1 year in platform/dev productivity roles. - Strong expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, Observability, System Design. - Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks, dynamic test selection, code quality gates. - Strong coding skills in Go or Python (Go preferred for tooling/frameworks). - Experience designing ephemeral environments, monitoring/observability tools. - Proven track record of delivering impactful projects org-wide, mentoring engineers, and driving large-scale initiatives. - A background in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) or any open-source software (OSS) contributions would be a huge plus. Alternatively, having built something really cool to solve a difficult pain point for engineers or anything that helped ship things faster for the company or the OSS community would also be great. - Strong communication and ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders. Life at slice Life so good, you’d think we’re kidding: 1. Competitive salaries. Period. 2. An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependents. We’ll love you and take care of you, our promise. 3. Flexible working hours. Just don’t call us at 3AM, we like our sleep schedule. 4. Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life. 5. A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here. 6. Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously, not kidding. 7. Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel like home. An environment so good, you’ll forget the term “colleagues can’t be your friends”.