Lead Platform Engineer
About Allica Bank
Allica is the UK’s fastest growing company - and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.
Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.
Department Description
Platform Engineering is the centralised team that builds, provisions and runs the infrastructure every other engineering team at Allica depends on. Whether a product serves a business banking customer or a colleague inside the bank, it lands on a platform this team designed. The team owns both halves of that, building the platform and running it, against the availability and resilience standards a regulated bank is held to. Well-architected is the operating standard, not an aspiration: reliability, security, cost and operational excellence are design inputs from the start.
The job is to make the right thing the easy thing, through paved roads, self-service provisioning, sensible defaults, and controls encoded in the platform rather than bolted on afterwards. Every control the platform enforces is one a product team do
