Your Mission
At Ratepay we are dedicated to revolutionizing the world of digital payments. Established in 2009 we have grown to become Europes leading whitelabel Buy Now Pay Later payment provider processing over 2.5 million transactions per month. Our diverse team of 200 professionals collaborates to create customized stateoftheart payment solutions for major online retailers and marketplaces.
Ratepay is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer with a strong background in cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices including expertise in AWS automation and CI/CD pipelines. In this role you will be responsible for designing building and maintaining a scalable secure and highperforming platform that supports our software development teams in bringing services to production optimizing system performance ensuring compliance and driving operational excellence through improved observability and incident management.
Key Responsibilities:- Operation of applications and infrastructure in the cloud with the usage ofIaCtooling(Terraform andTerragrunt)
- Support software engineer teams inmaintainingtheir cloudnative applications in our Cloudinfrastructure
- Managing various native services of our Cloud Provider (AWS)
- Scaling andoptimizingthe platform for performance
- Troubleshooting diagnosing and resolving issues
- Monitoring and analyzing platform performance
- Evaluating and integratingnew technologiesand tools to improve the platform
- Implementing security measures and ensuring compliance with standards
- Documenting platform architecture and processes
Thats What You Bring Along
- Proven experience in engineering (67 years)
- Cloud Infrastructure (AWS): Handson experience managing infrastructure in AWS which is our primary platform for hosting and scaling services
- Terraform andTerragrunt: Proven ability to deploy and manage infrastructure using Terraform andTerragrunt ensuring consistent and automated provisioning
- DevOps Tooling and Practices:Proficiencywith CI/CD pipelines infrastructure as code (IaC) configuration management monitoring and logging to support reliable software delivery and operations
- Networking: Solid understanding of networking principles to manage connectivity and communication between infrastructure components
- Version Control (Git): Experience using Git for source control and collaborative development
- OpsGenie: Familiarity with incident management workflows usingOpsGenieto ensuretimelyalerting and response
Nicetohave skills:- Programming and Scripting: Ability to write scripts or small tools to support automation andassistsoftware engineers with troubleshooting
- Linux System Administration:Fundamentals of Linux system administration for troubleshooting and recovery
- Ansible: Familiarity withthe toolfor configuring and managing legacy systems
- MessagingArchitecture andSystems: Understanding of systems like Kafka RabbitMQ or Kinesis which are central to service communication
- Virtualization and Containers: Knowledge of tools such as DockerPodman VMWare or OpenStack to manage virtual environments and containers
- Jira and Confluence experience
Equal Opportunities & Diversity
We value our diversity and welcome everyone to our team. Regardless of ethnic and social background religious beliefs worldview gender sexual orientation physical and mental limitations age marital status educational background and nationality. With over 200 employees and 40 different nationalities we take our values seriously. These include ownership growth integrity collaboration customer centricity and inclusion.
About us
We dare to design the future of payments. Ratepay is energy and diversity and: custommade stateoftheart payment solutions. Established in 2009 we were a fintech before the word fintech even existed. Today we are the number one whitelabel Buy Now Pay Later payments provider in Europe handling over 2.5M transactions per month and were constantly growing.
We are where we are because we work together as one team. Because we got the freedom to execute ideas. And above everything: because we never stop improving. Here it is all about shared goals not about the big ego. We are dedicated pros (more than 250 of them) not cons. We embrace being courageous committed and decisive warmhearted and having a will to win.
We have our origin in the heart of the payment scene and cover the whole value chain from integration support to the dunning process with a core of AIbased risk management. With us you can integrate direct debit instalments and prepayment. In other words: the favourite payment methods in Germany Austria and Switzerland (the Dutch like it too). Located in the middle of Europes fintech metropolis (Berlin) we are proud to work with major partners such as Eurowings Ebay and About You and hundreds more.