Senior Cloud Engineer- EU

About our Company:

LemFi (YC S21, Series B) is revolutionizing cross-border financial services for immigrants through its multi-currency platform, processing over $1 billion in monthly transactions. We provide instant remittances, foreign exchange services, and multi-currency accounts, all in one seamless experience.

With 300 employees across 15 countries, our platform supports twelve currencies and integrates directly with local banks and mobile money providers, ensuring fast, low-cost transactions. But we’re not stopping at payments. LemFi is building a comprehensive financial ecosystem empowering immigrants with the financial tools they need to thrive—wherever they go.

Our vision: To build the first full-stack financial services hub for the world’s immigrant population. 🚀

Who You Are:

You are a candidate who would thrive in a fintech scale-up environment, where we readily accept individuals with a humble, yet uplifting attitude alongside a diligent sense of work ethic. The teams here at LemFi are passionate about their work and fields of expertise, but also lend hands on cross-functional responsibilities to ensure the success of the company and the satisfaction of our customers.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to join our team. If you are passionate about building and maintaining AWS Cloud Infrastructure to match scalability, security and cost-efficiency goals, have a deep understanding of Continuous Delivery practices, and are excited about creating self-service Cloud Platform for engineers, we want to hear from you!

This role is ideal for someone with a strong sense of ownership, a commitment to high quality, and a drive to constantly improve.

Job Description & Responsibilities

Cloud Engineering:

• Design, document and implement Cloud platform enhancements.
• Make sure all changes done to Cloud infrastructure are auditable, reproducible and revertable.
• Strive for cost-efficiency and simplicity over latest innovation.
• Follow operational requirements and legislations for a global FinTech provider (DORA, GDPR, PCI DSS, ISO, SOC2 etc).
• Contribute to Internal Development Platform, API Management, CI/CD tooling.
• Stay updated on AWS updates and ways to improve our cloud infrastructure.

Site Reliability Engineering:

• Enhance observability set-up including logging, monitoring, alerting and tracing.
• Continuously monitor deployed services performance and work with engineers to optimize for speed and responsiveness.
• Work on implementation of disaster recovery and change deployment practices, which fulfill defined Service Level Objectives of reliability and availability.
• Participate in the Incident Response taskforce as a responder for infrastructural issues.

Ownership and Collaboration:

• Take full ownership of deliverables, from development to production release and beyond.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, security and other relevant stakeholders to fulfill company goals.
• Liaise with external vendors to find more optimal solutions to utilise their offerings.
• Mentor and direct junior specialists, fostering a culture of learning, improvement and excellence.

Qualifications

Technical Expertise:

• 5 years of professional experience in System Administration, Cloud Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Deep knowledge of Infrastructure as a Code, with hands-on experience in Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Strong understanding of AWS architecture components (ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, Networking, etc), and design patterns.
• Familiarity with containers (Docker) and how to operate those.
• Solid understanding of security concepts, including encryption, key management, and authentication mechanisms.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions. ArgoCD etc).

Soft Skills:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a detail-oriented mindset.
• High sense of ownership and accountability for delivering top-quality work.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team.

Nice to Haves:

• Knowledge of message queuing and event streaming (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
• NewRelic observability tool knowledge
• AWS Certification
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.