Location: UK Remote
Department: Engineering
Contract role
About YLD:
Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto.
About the role:As a Platform Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You’ll be proficient at problem-solving, helping to deliver the core infrastructure, associated pipelines and related services in a pragmatic way that focuses on keeping the Platform team a core component of software delivery, from providing the platform for application developers to build on. You’ll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.
Your Dev experience will include:Previous CI/CD experience;
Experienced in Java, Node.js, or Go — but any relevant development experience (e.g. Powershell or Bash) is a huge plus;
An advocate for TDD: writing infrastructure or code without tests should be unthinkable;
A solid understanding and passion for excellent software development practices
Significant production experience;
Strong background with container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes;
Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure;
Thorough understanding of infrastructure as code tools, including Terraform and Ansible (ARM Template, Bicep, or Pulumi are also welcome);
Proven experience building, shipping, and running using Docker;
Understanding how a Load Balancer works and having used Traefik, Nginx, HAProxy, or a Cloud-based Load Balancer;
Comfortable working in a Linux/RHEL/Ubuntu environment.
- The chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fast-moving business.
- 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
- Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)
- Meet and discuss with a Client Partner (15/30mins)
- Growing every day
- Including everyone
- Relationships built on honesty and ethics
- Inspiring solutions
- Winning together
We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. We also believe in work-life balance and offer flexible working around our core hours.
Top Skills
What We Do
With offices in London, Lisbon, and Porto, YLD is a product design and software engineering consultancy specialising in customer experience and disruptive technologies. We were among the first adopters of innovative technologies like Node.js, React.js, React Native, Kubernetes, and GraphQL, which are now staples for many businesses. YLD was also an early adopter of Design Systems as a service and founded Design Systems London, a non-profit community focused on design and product. We leave your teams and tech in a better space by curating bespoke teams of cross-functional experts in software engineering, architecture, DevOps, delivery, design, product and data science to work alongside your teams through close collaboration and, where needed, pair programming or technical training. We drive rapid iteration towards key business objectives, vision and chosen metrics, creating a long-standing product culture and delivery capability in each piece of work. We’ve helped companies like Bulb, Uphold, NewDay, GoDaddy, CondeNast, and many others, achieve technical product excellence. As a result, we enable organisations, regardless of industry, to become their most successful by creating and nurturing a culture that embraces experimentation and learning that lasts beyond the partnership. We are committed to the Open Source community, with almost 10,000 contributions across 500 open source projects. Collective contributions result in more robust, innovative and faster solutions, allowing open source communities to review the code and propose improvements that increase security and reliability. We are also actively engaged in numerous engineering and design communities, supporting and organising the likes of ReactJS Girls and Design Systems London with both online and in-person events and conferences
