Staff Platform Engineer

We are the makers of Up, Australia’s most loved digital bank and part of the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Group since 2021. As part of this group we are proud to take tangible steps to reduce our environmental impact, include benefits to the community in our goals, and are committed to high standards of corporate governance.

Banking is an essential service, for the advantaged, disadvantaged, and everyone in between. We believe that through innovation and empathy we can help the people who most need it have a better relationship with their money. “Build an an engaging, accessible path to financial wellbeing” is the core mission of the company and we expect you to align to that mission in the work that you do.

We have a hybrid work culture where you can attend the office as much or as little as makes sense for you and your team. We place a lot of value in spending time together in person, so while we won’t dictate how many hours or days you spend in the office per week we are currently only hiring folks who can get themselves to our Melbourne office as described above.

Everyone gets the standard four weeks annual leave, and the office also closes down for a couple of weeks over the Christmas break (think of it like a loooooooong weekend) in addition to those four weeks. We have a generous parental leave policy and are extremely friendly to flexible working arrangements.

Not quite ticking every box? Throw your hat in the ring anyway! At Up, we're all about shaking things up and rewriting the rules. We thrive on diversity and inclusion, and we wholeheartedly encourage you to step up and shine. Let us be the judge of your qualifications for this role – you might just surprise yourself!

We’re looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to join us at Ferocia as we grow two of Australia’s most loved banks (Up and Bendigo Bank). We have been growing fast over the last few years, and are looking for people who can help us evolve to meet this demand with the same high levels of reliability and trust that have gotten us this far.

You will be part of a small, close-knit team who maintain the Up platform to keep the lights running for our customers. The Up platform is running in GCP and is built entirely using Terraform, with the ability to provision a brand new production environment in a matter of hours!

We learned while doing too, so know all about getting things wrong on the way to getting them right. Our culture of blameless retrospectives and continuous learning are here to support you as you grow. We are fiercely protective of the autonomy of our engineers, and that means no-one is going to micromanage you.

We have a culture of continuous delivery, which challenges established norms about how banking software should be built! Deploying banking software to production several times a day by leaning heavily on engineer-driven test automation is critical to our success. We expect you to care about the entire ecosystem in which you will build, test, deploy and support software, although of course you don’t need to be an expert in everything (we have some real good ones).

You'll spend your days working closely with a group of people who like to build software that aspires to be the best it can be; and balance that with professional development, team time and time to breathe and think. We spend a lot of time investing in a team that collaborates effectively, and we'll want you to as well.

• Experience building secure, scalable and reliable systems in a mission-critical environment supporting customers.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and all things containerisation.
• Experience building and leveraging cloud-native solutions (GCP preferred).
• Advanced knowledge of security concepts and industry best practices.
• An innate desire to do a good job, and to help the people around you do a good job too. “Do the right thing when no-one is watching” is one of our most cherished values.
• You’ve worked in a couple of different industries, bringing battle scars, success stories and everything that has shaped you into a well-rounded Platform Engineer.
• Experience or at least a strong desire to upskill your peers by sharing knowledge, pair programming, mentoring and advocating for improving the effectiveness of the team.
• A clear understanding of just how valuable effective communication is in software development, and the ability to do it well.
• Willingness to participate in the on-call rotation.
• The right to work permanently in Australia.
• The ability to attend our Melbourne CBD office at least three days per week if needed, at least while starting out, followed by six company days per year.

Please apply here with your resume and a brief spiel on yourself and we’ll take it from there.