You will:

• Lead efforts to ensure our payments infrastructure is highly reliable.

• Build and maintain systems and applications that enhance the productivity and quality efforts of our engineering team, including deployment infrastructure and similar.

• Define production standards as code and simplify things for the product engineers.

• Participate in the on-call rotation.

• Lead or assist in production incidents, postmortems and subsequent agreed actions.

• Specify, document and operate Fung engineering playbooks and runbooks, as well as operational development processes.

• Create, maintain and test our system disaster recovery process.

• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team on systems’ specifications and integrations, and also participate in code reviews providing constructive feedback.

• Learn a ton about payments.

You will likely be successful if you:

• Have meaningful experience building and working on critical systems with very high availability requirements.

• Have been an early-stage engineer and/or are very comfortable working with early stage ambiguity.

• Care deeply about software infrastructure being critical to a great user experience.

• Have a humble attitude and an eagerness to get very hard things accomplished.

• Have a strong product sense and willingness to own problems end-to-end.

• You think big but strive for the simplest solutions.

Requirements:

• Solid proven experience on high availability and high transaction volume systems running on AWS infrastructure, with knowledge of ECS/Fargate, Aurora RDS, DynamoDB, S3 and Eventbridge (among others).

• Operational knowledge of networking and Linux administration.

• Experience with monitoring tools like Opentelemetry, Grafana, ELK and PagerDuty.

• Solid understanding of and proven experience building automation for engineering efficiency.

• Good knowledge of application security, cybersecurity and information security practices, ideally on platforms with PCI DSS, SOC2 and/or ISO 27001 requirements.

• (Ideally) familiarity with financial payments and services technologies.

• Impactful Role: An opportunity to have an impact on what we aspire to become the global leading payments platform for Vertical SaaS. 

• Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary, equity, and benefits.

• Modern Workspace: Office in Pand Noord, Amsterdam North, with support for home office setup.

• Perks: Personal growth budget, conferences, team events, and daily lunches.

• 25 holidays per year in addition to bank holidays. 

• Warm lunches at the office.

Recruitment Process:

• Screening Call (30-45 mins): You will meet one of our founding engineers to get an initial idea of the role and the Fung culture.

• Technical screen with Engineering (1 hour): A hands-on coding challenge or a systems design discussion to evaluate your problem-solving skills and technical expertise.

• CTO Interview (1 hour): Meet the CTO to get a feel for how you enjoy working, how you think about building products and how that aligns with Fung’s aspirations.

• Team Day at Our Office (~ a few hours): gives both you and the team a chance to get to know each other. You’ll see how we work, experience our culture, and decide if this is a place you’d like to be, whilst giving us a better feel for whether this will be a match:

  • Technical Challenge: You’ll spend some time with our product / engineering team discussing a real-example challenge related to your role, giving you insight into what the day-to-day will look like. We will share a brief overview in advance.

  • Lunch with team: Spend time with team members, ask questions, and share your thoughts. Have lunch with the team (on us) and get to know the people you might work with.

  • Compensation: To respect your time and effort, you’ll receive a EUR 100 gift card, regardless of the outcome.

We do not work with recruiters!!