Date posted: 6 January 2026
Job Description:
Job Overview
Platform Engineer (IC4 Mid level) – Norwich (On-site)
About Epos Now
Epos Now is a leading provider of cloud-based point-of-sale and embedded finance solutions, trusted by 40,000+ businesses worldwide. We’re building modern, scalable platforms that power payments, data, and AI-driven experiences. Join an engineering culture that values ownership, clean, testable code, and continuous improvement.
The Opportunity
We’re hiring a Platform Engineer (IC4 Mid Level) to join our core platform team in Norwich. This team is modernising our infrastructure and developer platform to enable faster, safer delivery across the business. Expect high-impact work on scalability, reliability, and developer productivity.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and operate core platform services on AWS, leveraging Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitHub Actions to enable secure, scalable delivery.
- Lead and contribute to infrastructure-as-code, platform APIs, observability, and runtime tooling (Go/Node.js) that improve reliability and time-to-market.
- Drive best practices in CI/CD, security, cost optimisation, and performance; reduce toil through automation and self-service.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define standards, guide architecture, and support migrations to modern platform patterns.
- Own services end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and post-incident review.
- Mentor engineers, share knowledge, and contribute to an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture.
Success looks like (KPIs)
- Consistently achieves an average score of 3+ for Delivery every 6 months.
- Consistently achieves an average score of 3+ for Communication every 6 months.
- Consistently achieves an average score of 3+ for Sharing & Contributing every 6 months.
Our stack
- AWS, Kubernetes
- Terraform, Helm
- GitHub Actions (CI/CD)
- Go, Node.js
- Observability: modern logging, metrics, and tracing tools
What we’re looking for
- Senior-level platform/SRE experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS) for high-availability systems.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Terraform (or equivalent IaC), plus CI/CD at scale.
- Proficiency in one or more of Go or Node.js for building platform tooling/services.
- Solid grasp of networking, security, observability, and cost control in cloud-native environments.
- Track record of leading initiatives, influencing architecture, and mentoring others.
- Pragmatic mindset focused on clean, testable code, automation, and measurable impact.
Nice to have
- Helm, service mesh.
- Database operations exposure (PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar).
- GitLab/GitHub ecosystem depth, policy-as-code, or platform engineering enablement work.
- Experience in fintech, payments, or POS domains.
Location and working pattern
- Norwich office; Monday to Friday, core hours between 8am–6pm.
- Full-time, permanent.
Compensation and benefits
- Salary: £32,000–£40,000 (GBP), plus standard benefits.
- Standard benefits package, growth and learning opportunities, and the chance to shape a modern engineering platform used at global scale.
How to apply
- Apply with a CV and links to relevant work (GitHub, tech blogs, OSS contributions).
- External recruitment partner: Recruitment Junky.
- https://eposnowgroup.bamboohr.com/careers/412?source=aWQ9OQ%3D%3D
Epos Now is an equal opportunity employer. If building reliable, scalable platforms that accelerate thousands of businesses sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Company pension
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
What We Do
Epos Now is a global payments and cloud-based software provider, focused on small and medium businesses in the retail, hospitality and personal care sectors. We specialise in the design and manufacture of electronic points of sale (commonly referred to as EPOS) as well as an integrated payments solution. Founded in 2011 by our Chief Executive, Jacyn Heavens, Epos Now is currently available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain and Mexico. Creators of the UK's first POS AppStore and winners of the prestigious Queen's Award for Innovation, we set the bar for POS excellence. Other accolades include the UK Business & Innovation Awards, International Business Award, Customer Experience Award, FT 1000 46th Fastest growing company in Europe and the two time winner of the Sunday Times Tech Track.
