Senior Platform Engineer

GoHenry

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

GoHenry is a UK-based fintech company created by parents to pioneer financial education. More recently, GoHenry moved into Europe and the US by joining forces with French fintech company PixPay and US investing app, Acorns. Together, Acorns, PixPay, and GoHenry have over 6 million members across 5 countries. We are focused on empowering families with engaging money management tools, educational content, and a seamless product experience that creates financial well-being from birth to adulthood. We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer (Grade 8) to serve as a core technical contributor on our Platform team, designing, building, and owning the infrastructure systems that power GoHenry's products. In this role, you will elevate platform quality, optimize reliability, and directly support customer-facing innovations.

Requirements

Deep, hands-on Google Cloud experience (including GKE and Cloud SQL), with a strong grasp of GCP's networking and security model (experience with Cloudflare is a bonus).
Strong hands-on Kubernetes skills and a practical understanding of container orchestration in a production environment.
Proficiency in writing and standardising infrastructure code with Terraform, Helm, and modern CI/CD tooling.
Proven track record as a strong individual contributor who takes end-to-end ownership of complex technical work.
Good working knowledge of observability tooling (such as Datadog) to configure metrics, logging, and alerting systems that genuinely inform on-call response.
A passion for sharing knowledge, mentoring peers, writing documentation, and helping fellow engineers grow.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Cloudflare

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and own infrastructure systems end-to-end, from initial design through to production operation.
Write high-quality, well-tested infrastructure code using Terraform, Helm charts, and CI/CD pipelines, actively contributing to team-wide standards.
Take ownership of complex production incidents—diagnosing, resolving, and driving blameless post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence.
Contribute to architectural discussions with well-reasoned proposals backed by practical experience.
Stay current with the cloud ecosystem and bring concrete, considered recommendations for tooling and approaches to the team.
Maintain a consistently high bar for scalability, resilience, and reliability across your areas of ownership.
Implement and improve observability using meaningful metrics, structured logging, and actionable alerting that surfaces real signals.
Ensure all infrastructure is version-controlled, reviewable, and reproducible, following infrastructure-as-code principles throughout.
Design and operate systems with security and compliance in mind—ensuring adherence to industry best practices and supporting audit requirements such as PCI-DSS and SOC 2.
Work closely with tech squads to help them consume platform capabilities effectively and unblock their delivery.
Partner with backend, data, and security engineers to align on shared infrastructure patterns and standards.
Communicate clearly about infrastructure changes, risks, and ongoing work to the teams that depend on the platform.

Benefits

Workplace pension plan
33 days of holiday (including public holidays)
Great company events local & abroad
GoFlex - Work from Home, Office, or a mix of both
Your Birthday Day off
25 days annual leave, in addition to 8 UK bank holidays
An excellent Induction & onboarding program with ongoing learning & development throughout your career
A choice between Bupa Health Cash Plan or Bupa Private Medical
Death in service – 4x your annual salary from month 1
Physical and Mental Wellbeing support and platforms for you and your family
Family-friendly leave policies
Enhanced maternity leave – 20 weeks full basic pay after 2 years’ service and 26 weeks full basic pay after 3 years’ service
Paternity leave – 4 weeks full pay after probation
Salary Sacrifice options