Senior DevOps Engineer Developer Experience Focus

Algoan is a fintech founded in 2018 revolutionising the credit sector by building fairer and more transparent credit decisioning tools.

Europes leader in Credit Scoring API it provides financial institutions retailers and fintech with credit decisioning tools that can be used in a variety of use cases such as BNPL consumer credit car subscription mortgage and much more. We work with major players (Sofinco Cofidis Revolut etc.) to improve user experience and acceptance rates while reducing the risk of over-indebtedness.

Based on Open Banking (the secure sharing of bank account data) Algoan solutions enable a cut of credit risk by up to 50% and an increase in loan production by up to 40% while lowering processing costs and offering a seamless 100% digital pathway to credit applicants.

Today Algoan is scaling faster than ever driven by international expansion across Europe and the upcoming DCC2 regulation which is accelerating demand and API call volumes at an unprecedented pace.

Our Product team drives this transformation working in squads. The Transaction Data squad is responsible for our banking aggregation product which allows loan applicants to securely share their banking history. It is from this data that we are able to calculate a credit score. The Credit Decisioning squad is responsible for our credit decisioning solution which is based on the retrieved banking history.

Tasks

Main mission

To support our growth we are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer who will not only contribute to the robustness and scalability of our platform but also improve the Developer Experience (DevEx) to make our tech teams more productive and autonomous.

Your role will be twofold:

1. Ensure the reliability security and performance of our infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
2. Optimize the developer experience by implementing tools best practices and environments that facilitate the daily work of all engineering teams.

You will join and help our expert team composed of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and a DevSecOps in their daily activities and contribute to supporting the needs of the companys two squads as well as potential requests from the Risk Compliance or Data teams.

Key Responsibilities

As a DevOps / Platform Engineer with a focus on DevEx your responsibilities will include:

Infrastructure & Operations

• Design deploy and maintain cloud environments (mainly on GCP).
• Implement and improve Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Bash).
• Ensure platform availability performance and security (SRE mindset).
• Monitor troubleshoot and automate incident management (monitoring alerting observability).

CI/CD & Automation

• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Spinnaker).
• Automate build test and deployment processes to reduce time-to-market.
• Support the adoption of GitOps practices.

Developer Experience (DevEx)

• Build and maintain simple consistent local development environments (Docker Dev Containers etc.).
• Develop internal tools to streamline the development lifecycle (internal CLIs templates scaffolding).
• Evangelize DevOps and DevEx best practices across teams.
• Identify and eliminate developer friction points such as slow builds long pipelines or debugging difficulties.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of technical documentation.

Collaboration & Culture

• Work closely with developers data engineers and data scientists.
• Contribute to the definition of the DevOps/Platform roadmap.
• Promote our you build it you run it culture : maintainers philosophy.

Requirements

Technical

• Strong experience with Cloud (GCP or equivalent).
• Mastery of IaC tools (Terraform).
• Solid knowledge of Kubernetes & Docker.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions GitLab CI etc.).
• Proficiency in cloud and application security practices.
• Good knowledge of observability tools (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Datadog etc.).
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows.
• Scripting and tool development (Python Go Bash).

Soft Skills

• Strong team spirit and collaborative mindset.
• Passion for improving developer productivity.
• Curiosity and continuous tech watch.
• Ability to explain and train teams on best practices.

Profile

• 5 years of experience in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering roles.
• Background in modern tech environments (microservices APIs data).
• Strong interest in Developer Experience.
• Autonomous pragmatic and delivery-oriented.

Benefits

• A passionate and ambitious team.
• A culture of innovation and collaboration.
• Exciting and diverse technical challenges.
• Flexible work environment (2 days in the office in the center of Paris).
• An opportunity to have a direct impact on the companys productivity.
• Compensation: Attractive package aligned with your experience and expertise.

Hiring Process

• Introductory Call (15 min): a first conversation to introduce Algoan present the role and get to know you.
• On-Site Technical Interview with the DevOps Team On (1h302h) - at our Paris office: a deep dive into your technical skills problem-solving approach and DevOps mindset with real-world scenarios.
• Interview with the CTO (30 min): discussion about technical strategy alignment with our vision and your potential impact at Algoan.
• Interview with the CEO (30 min): a final conversation to share Algoans mission values and culture and ensure a mutual fit.