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 environment 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 scheduling failure down to a Spring Boot stack trace or a Hibernate query plan
GitHub & Source Control Engineering
Deep GitHub Actions expertise — authoring reusable/composite workflows, matrix builds, self-hosted runners, caching strategies, and secure secret handling in CI
Repository governance at scale — branch protection rules, required status checks, CODEOWNERS, merge queue strategy across many repos or a monorepo
GitHub Advanced Security — secret scanning and push protection, code scanning (CodeQL), Dependabot policy and triage
GitHub Apps and fine-grained access tokens for internal automation — building bots/integrations against the GitHub API rather than relying on personal access tokens
GitHub Environments — deployment protection rules, required reviewers, and environment-scoped secrets as a promotion gate into staging/production
Organisation and team permission design — least-privilege access across engineering teams, audit logging, SSO/SAML integration
GitOps & DevOps
Production experience with GitOps tooling — ArgoCD or Flux — managing declarative, Git-driven deployments across multiple environments and clusters
Infrastructure as Code — Terraform for cloud provisioning; Helm charts / Kustomize for Kubernetes manifests
Progressive delivery — canary and blue-green rollout mechanics, automated rollback triggers tied to health signals
Secrets management integrated into pipelines — Vault, Sealed Secrets, or cloud-native secret stores
Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure
Kubernetes at depth — deployments, StatefulSets, ConfigMaps, Secrets, resource quotas, autoscaling (HPA/VPA), network policies
Multi-tenant cluster design — namespace isolation, per-tenant resource boundaries, workload scheduling
Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP) — networking, IAM, managed Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE), managed databases
Container image strategy — multi-stage Docker builds, base image hardening, registry and vulnerability scanning
Observability & Reliability
Builds and maintains observability stack — structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics (Prometheus/Grafana or equivalent)
Defines SLIs/SLOs and alerting thresholds in partnership with engineering teams
Incident response — on-call practices, runbooks, postmortems that lead to platform-level fixes, not just fire-fighting
Nice to Have
Experience migrating workloads from on-premises / JBoss-style deployments into Kubernetes
Kafka or RabbitMQ operations — cluster management, topic/queue scaling, consumer lag monitoring
Policy-as-code experience — OPA/Gatekeeper, admission controllers, compliance-as-code for regulated environments
Exposure to the financial services domain — awareness of the audit, resiliency, and change-control expectations that come with banking customers
What We Look For at This Level
You treat the platform as a product — self-service, documented, and reliable enough that application teams rarely need to escalate to you
You write platform tooling as real software — tested, versioned, code-reviewed — not one-off scripts that only you can maintain
You can move fluidly between a Terraform module, a GitHub Actions workflow, a Kubernetes manifest, and a Spring Boot stack trace without losing context
You design deployment and rollback paths that reduce customer-facing risk by default, not as an afterthought
You partner with engineering teams during design, flagging operability, security, and scaling concerns before code is written
You mentor other engineers on CI/CD and platform practices, and you're a credible voice in architecture discussions beyond just infrastructure
We are proud to offer a range of incentives to our employees worldwide. These benefits are available to everyone, regardless of grade, and reflect the values we stand for:
Flexibility: Enjoy unlimited vacation, subject to local regulations and business priorities. Benefit from hybrid working arrangements and inclusive policies such as paid time off for voting, bereavement, and sick leave.
Well‑being: Access confidential one‑to‑one support through our Employee Assistance Program, connect with our network of Wellbeing Champions and Gather Groups, and take part in monthly events and initiatives designed to help you thrive—inside and outside of work.
Health & Financial Security: Medical, life and disability insurance, retirement plans, lifestyle, and other benefits.*
Sustainability: Paid time off for volunteering and donation‑matching opportunities to support causes that matter to you.
Inclusion: Get involved in our inclusion communities, such as Count Me In, Culture@Finastra, Proud@Finastra, Disabilities@Finastra, and Women@Finastra—open to everyone who wants to participate and contribute.
Career Development: Access online learning and accredited courses through our Skills & Career Navigator tool.
Recognition: Take part in our global recognition program, Finastra Celebrates, and share your voice through regular employee surveys that help shape our culture and ways of working.
*Specific benefits may vary by location.
At Finastra, each individual is unique—bringing their own ideas, perspectives, cultural backgrounds, and experiences. We learn from one another, value what makes us different, and create an environment where everyone feels included, supported, and able to be their authentic selves.
Be unique. Be exceptional. Help us make a difference at Finastra.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong general-purpose programming experience in Java, Go, or Python
- Experience writing and reviewing production-grade platform tooling, CLIs, operators, controllers, or automation services
- Experience with software design fundamentals, including API design, concurrency, error handling, and backward compatibility
- Experience contributing to Spring Boot libraries and starter packs
- Ability to debug across Kubernetes infrastructure and Spring Boot application layers
- Deep GitHub Actions expertise, including reusable workflows, matrix builds, self-hosted runners, caching, and secure secret handling
- Experience with repository governance, branch protection, status checks, CODEOWNERS, and merge queues
- Experience with GitHub Advanced Security, secret scanning, code scanning, CodeQL, and Dependabot
- Experience building GitHub Apps and integrations using fine-grained access tokens and the GitHub API
- Experience with GitHub Environments, deployment protection rules, required reviewers, and environment-scoped secrets
- Experience designing organization and team permissions using least privilege, audit logging, and SSO/SAML
- Production experience with Argo CD or Flux
- Infrastructure as code experience with Terraform, Helm, or Kustomize
- Experience implementing canary and blue-green deployments with automated rollback
- Experience integrating Vault, Sealed Secrets, or cloud-native secret stores into pipelines
- Deep Kubernetes experience with deployments, StatefulSets, ConfigMaps, Secrets, quotas, autoscaling, and network policies
- Experience designing multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters with namespace isolation, resource boundaries, and workload scheduling
- Cloud platform experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including networking, IAM, managed Kubernetes, and managed databases
- Experience with multi-stage Docker builds, base image hardening, registries, and vulnerability scanning
- Experience building and maintaining observability using structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics, Prometheus, or Grafana
- Experience defining SLIs, SLOs, alerting thresholds, on-call practices, runbooks, and postmortems
- Experience migrating on-premises or JBoss deployments to Kubernetes
- Kafka or RabbitMQ operations experience
- Policy-as-code experience with OPA, Gatekeeper, admission controllers, or compliance-as-code
- Financial services domain experience
Finastra Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Finastra and has not been reviewed or approved by Finastra.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave is positioned as flexible/“unlimited” in many roles, which can support work-life balance when team norms allow it. Hybrid/flexible working is also framed as a core part of the overall rewards experience.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as relatively generous in the US, with multiple references to roughly three months (or around 12 weeks) fully paid and equal leave for mothers and fathers. This is repeatedly highlighted as a meaningful component of the benefits package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support is emphasized through offerings like an Employee Assistance Program and TaskHuman coaching, alongside volunteering time off and employee networks. These programs broaden total rewards beyond cash compensation.
Finastra Insights
What We Do
At Finastra our purpose is to unlock the power of finance for everyone & redefine finance for good. We’re the orchestrator of open finance; building and delivering innovative, next-generation technology on our open Fusion software architecture and cloud ecosystem. We’re one of the world’s largest FinTechs, working with over 9,000 customers including 90 of the top 100 banks globally. We’re creating a pioneering open platform that’s disrupting the financial industry, changing how financial software is developed and used. We believe in collaboration for innovation, to unlock the potential of people, businesses and communities. We have an unmatched portfolio of financial software and deliver mission critical solutions for financial institutions of all sizes, on premises or in the cloud. Our open architecture and platform approach embrace a wide ecosystem of partners and co innovators. Together we're leading the way in which applications are written, deployed and consumed in the world of financial services. Our people mission is to be the most loved and inclusive fintech company in the world; a mission we take seriously. DE&I factors into everything we do and every decision we make as a business. When you join Finastra, you open up a world of possibilities. With us, you can supercharge financial institutions, big tech and fintech while also building a more inclusive finance industry. We believe our people thrive when given the opportunity to be their authentic selves and we trust our people to work how, when and where they want; this is OPENworking. Our 2+ policy provides the perfect mix of focused work at home, coupled with the meaningful connection that comes from in person collaboration, coaching and community. We're rolling out a new programme where our people take as much leave as they need; we do not count vacation days and we trust our people to work in a way that suits them, when it suits them. Come join the future of Fintech, and make your world. OPEN.
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