At Finastra, we’re a global leader in financial services software, dedicated to expanding access to financial services and shaping what’s next for the industry. Our technology powers mission‑critical solutions across Lending, Payments and Universal Banking, supporting over 7,000 customers, including 80% of the world’s top 50 banks, in more than 110 countries.
Platform Engineer
About Finastra
Finastra is a global leader in financial technology, providing innovative solutions that help financial institutions around the world transform their operations and deliver exceptional customer experiences.
About the Role
You will build and run the platform that engineering teams deploy onto — a multi-tenant, cloud-native SaaS workplace supporting the modernisation of a large-scale financial system from on-premises to Kubernetes-based microservices. This is a senior software engineering role first, and a DevOps/platform role second: you write production-grade code for the tooling and automation you own, not just scripts and YAML,
and you understand the Spring Boot services running on top of the platform well enough to debug deployment issues at the application layer, not just the infrastructure layer.
Core Technical Requirements
Software Engineering Foundation
- 7+ years professional software engineering experience — strong general-purpose programming (Java and/or Go or Python), not solely scripting
- Writes and reviews production-grade code for internal platform tooling — CLIs, operators, controllers, automation services — with the same rigour as application code: tests, code review, versioning
- Comfortable extending or contributing to shared Spring Boot libraries and starter packs consumed by other engineering teams
- Understands software design fundamentals — API design, concurrency, error handling, backward compatibility — well enough to be a credible reviewer on both infra and application pull requests
- Can debug across the full stack — from a Kubernetes s