Software Engineer I, SRE

About RedPin

At Redpin we simplify life's most important payments. Buying a new property overseas can be a stressful time, especially when it comes to moving your money. Through our Currencies Direct and TorFX brands we've been helping people do just that for over 25 years. With recent investment we're now on a mission to build a new range of digital products and services that will make moving money Internationally for Real Estate purchases even easier.

We're on a mission to become the solution for Real Estate payments everywhere. To do this, we are transitioning our business from a horizontal FX platform to a verticalized, embedded software company, as we look to the future and Redpin 2.0.

About the Role

At Redpin, we're passionate about building software that solves problems. We count on our site reliability engineers (SREs) to empower users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance level to pursue their missions. As we expand customer deployments, we're seeking an experienced SRE to deliver insights from massive-scale data in real time. Specifically, we're searching for someone who has fresh ideas and a unique viewpoint, and who enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences for every interaction.

What you'll do

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions.
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continual improvement.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications.
• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure and systems on AWS.
• Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives
  
  

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field. (Master's degree preferred)
• 2-6 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or in a similar role.
• Strong knowledge of system architecture, infrastructure design, and best practices.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages like Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, including infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Strong understanding of networking principles and protocols.
• Experience with supporting Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate JPA, Python, React, and .NET technologies Application.
• Knowledge of API gateway solutions like Kong and Layer 7.
• Experience working with databases such as Elastic, SQL Server, Postgres SQL.
• Familiarity with messaging systems like MQ, ActiveMQ, and Kafka.
• Proficiency in managing servers such as Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, NGINX, and IIS.
• Experience with containerization using EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).
• Knowledge of CI/CD processes and tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, and Ansible.
• Proficiency in monitoring tools such as Coralogix, CloudWatch, Zabbix, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to analyse and resolve complex technical issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a team environment.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision.