Senior Platform Engineer

GoHenry is the money app giving kids a head start in life as they learn to earn, save, spend and invest – all with parental oversight. Having pioneered a new category in financial education when it launched in 2012, over 2.3 million kids have now learnt money skills with GoHenry.

With the ultimate goal to make every kid smart with money, GoHenry believes the best way to learn is to get hands-on experience with money.

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to serve as a core technical contributor on our Platform team, designing, building, and owning the infrastructure systems that power GoHenry's products. In this role, you will elevate platform quality, optimize reliability, and directly support customer-facing innovations.

What you will do at GoHenry:

Hands-on Technical Delivery

• Design, implement, and own infrastructure systems end-to-end, from initial design through to production operation.

• Write high-quality, well-tested infrastructure code using Terraform, Helm charts, and CI/CD pipelines, actively contributing to team-wide standards.

• Take ownership of complex production incidents—diagnosing, resolving, and driving blameless post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence.

• Contribute to architectural discussions with well-reasoned proposals backed by practical experience.

• Stay current with the cloud ecosystem and bring concrete, considered recommendations for tooling and approaches to the team.

Platform Quality & Reliability

• Maintain a consistently high bar for scalability, resilience, and reliability across your areas of ownership.

• Implement and improve observability using meaningful metrics, structured logging, and actionable alerting that surfaces real signals.

• Ensure all infrastructure is version-controlled, reviewable, and reproducible, following infrastructure-as-code principles throughout.

• Design and operate systems with security and compliance in mind—ensuring adherence to industry best practices and supporting audit requirements such as PCI-DSS and SOC 2.

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Work closely with tech squads to help them consume platform capabilities effectively and unblock their delivery.

• Partner with backend, data, and security engineers to align on shared infrastructure patterns and standards.

• Communicate clearly about infrastructure changes, risks, and ongoing work to the teams that depend on the platform.

What you will bring to GoHenry:

• Deep, hands-on Google Cloud experience (including GKE and Cloud SQL), with a strong grasp of GCP's networking and security model (experience with Cloudflare is a bonus).

• Strong hands-on Kubernetes skills and a practical understanding of container orchestration in a production environment.

• Proficiency in writing and standardising infrastructure code with Terraform, Helm, and modern CI/CD tooling.

• Proven track record as a strong individual contributor who takes end-to-end ownership of complex technical work.

• Good working knowledge of observability tooling (such as Datadog) to configure metrics, logging, and alerting systems that genuinely inform on-call response.

• A passion for sharing knowledge, mentoring peers, writing documentation, and helping fellow engineers grow.

What’s in it for you?

All the essentials you would expect, including a workplace pension plan, 33 days of holiday (including public holidays), and great company events!

Plus:

• GoFlex - Work from Home, Office, or a mix of both

• Your Birthday Day off

• 25 days annual leave , in addition to 8 UK bank holidays

• Excellent Induction & onboarding program with ongoing learning & development throughout your career

• A choice between Bupa Health Cash Plan or Bupa Private Medical

• Death in service – 4x your annual salary from month 1

• Physical and Mental Wellbeing support and platforms for you and your family

• Family-friendly leave policies

• Enhanced maternity leave – 20 weeks full basic pay after 2 years’ service and 26 weeks full basic pay after 3 years’ service

• Paternity leave – 4 weeks full pay after probation

• Salary Sacrifice options

We’re proud to say

Our work to empower the next generation has been recognised dozens of times since 2012. Most recently:

• Our Money Missions were named ‘Best Financial Education Journey’ in the 11:FS Pulse 2026 annual report

• We won Finder’s ‘Best Kids' Card Provider’ in 2025

• We won City AM Dragon Awards ‘Leadership in Financial Literacy’ award in 2024

• We were named in the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in the UK in 2023

• We won the Tech for Good award at the Better Society Awards 2023

• GoHenry kids have donated over £770,000 of their own money to NSPCC via their GoHenry accounts

But we want to go much further, and that’s why we need you.

GoHenry is an equal-opportunity employer, and we’re on a mission to foster a diverse & inclusive workplace. Individuals seeking employment at GoHenry are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.