Head of Infrastructure Development

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom YouLend Limited Full time

About Us

YouLend Limited is a global leader in embedded financing, empowering e-commerce sites, tech companies, and payment services providers with innovative financing solutions. Our software platform and APIs enable partners to offer tailored financing products to their merchant base. With AI-driven credit risk assessment, we provide fast, flexible, and affordable funding to merchants and SMEs.

We're building a future where customer-oriented tech companies deliver financial services through embedded financing. As a pioneering fintech, we're developing the solutions that will shape this future.

The Position

We're seeking a highly experienced and visionary Head of Infrastructure Development to lead our technology platforms, setting strategic direction and overseeing development and scaling. This role plays a crucial part in ensuring infrastructure robustness, scalability, security, and user experience excellence.

The ideal candidate has successfully built and scaled platform architectures, led cross-functional teams, and delivered high-performance systems in fast-paced environments. Key responsibilities include:

  • Strategic Leadership: Define and implement the platform engineering strategy aligning with company objectives, ensuring scalability, performance, reliability, and security as the company grows.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with product engineering, data science, security, and other teams to drive integrated solutions meeting technical and business requirements.
  • Operational Efficiency: Establish best practices for monitoring, alerting, automation, and incident response to ensure a reliable platform with high uptime and optimized performance.
  • Security and Compliance: Partner with security teams to ensure platform compliance with industry regulations and standards, including data protection, privacy, and security best practices.

Qualifications

We require:

  • Experience: 10+ years in software engineering, with at least 5+ years in senior leadership focused on platform engineering, infrastructure, or cloud services.
  • Technical Expertise: Deep experience in architecting and operating large-scale, high-performance platforms, including microservices, cloud-native applications, API-driven development, and distributed systems.
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Proven experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, containerization, orchestration with Kubernetes).
  • Leadership Skills: Exceptional leadership and management skills with a proven track record of building, scaling, and leading high-performing engineering teams.
  • Security and Compliance: In-depth understanding of platform security, data privacy, and regulatory compliance requirements.

Salary Estimate

The estimated annual salary for this position is £80,000 - £140,000, depending on experience.



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