sprint and partners company
Sr. SRE Engineer (AWS) @ Scale-up adventure in payments processing in Amsterdam (hybrid)! You’ll become a key member within a core Engineering team building an high volume, end-to-end payments infrastructure. In 2025 the engineering team will double in size from 12 to ~20. The volumes that are processed will increase significantly.
Your job
If you like the complexity modern FinTech brings and impact/ownership are your drivers, this environment is for you. This is a key position in the company. You’ll lead and drive SRE efforts shaping a critical AWS based high reliable, high transaction/volume, end-to-end payments infrastructure from the early days and influence on how it’s being built. You are the first fulltime SRE so you should be pro-active, organized and able to bring value through infrastructure reliability investments. Your key focus areas are; drive a highly reliable payment infrastructure, defining production standards, design/build apps that improve the productivity and quality efforts of the engineering team, create an efficient deployment infrastructure, playbooks/runbooks, etc. In summary: You’ll enjoy a lot of ownership and impact working mostly on new projects/initiatives!
Requirements
Having fun on the job is important as well so we’re looking for bright personalities with positive vibes!
Company
Founded by 3 payment domain experts from well-known, global payment services providers (psp’s) they initially secured a very good pre-seed round, followed by a solid seed round last year. The VC sheet is one to be proud of with Internationally recognized names on it. The total company today is ~20 people of which 12 in Engineering. The goal is to steadily grow and double the engineering team during 2025 whilst onboarding more clients; adding volume to the platform and maturing the product in all aspects (scalability, predictability, reliability, etc).
The product is operating globally and servicing platforms instead of single e-shops which brings multi-tenancy and complexity. The product is running successfully at the first clients in production and it is processing significant volume already. The roadmap is solid with some big things for scheduled for 2025. It will be an exciting year!
The hybrid setup is 3 office days and working remote for longer periods of time is trust you can earn once you’re properly onboarded and you’ve shown to be impactful, output driven and able to take ownership. They operate from a cool office space in Amsterdam. Lunch is taken care of, both warm or cold and healthy or not! Ping pong, table soccer, Friday drinks, company fun, etc. is all present for relaxing as well!
Salary and benefits
The base compensation range is competitive for the Amsterdam market and the esop equity package is very good. Overall, the TC is top of market for Amsterdam. Other relevant perks like personal development budget, conferences, lunch etc. are present as well.
The focus is on local talent but exceptions can be made for Internationals within the EU willing to relocate to Amsterdam if there is the perfect match. They will offer a relocation package, VISA sponsorship and 30% ruling.
Keywords: FinTech, Payments, Greenfield, SRE, DevOps, Reliability, AWS Serverless/lambda, DynamoDB, ECS/Fargate, Aurora RDS, S3, Event bridge, Grafana, ELK, Open telemetry and PagerDuty, multi-tenancy, microservices, distributed systems, scalability, high availability / mission critical, psp, etc.
