Founding Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Job description

Founding Site Reliability Engineer

FinTech Startup

Hybrid-Remote: Central London (3 days per week, City)

£80,000 - £85,000 + Equity + Benefits

Did you know financial fraud costs the UK economy £200bn+ per year, accounting for over 40% of crime in England and Wales?

This early-stage FinTech is on a mission to fight financial crime and reduce scams in online payments

They’re now hiring their first Site Reliability Engineer to build the reliability backbone of the company

The Company

• 20 people total, 10 Engineers operating across UK and Africa
• Mission-driven, high-ownership culture
• Working with highly sensitive financial data

You’ll sit across two engineering teams in different continents, owning reliability end-to-end

The Role: Founding SRE

This is not a maintenance role. You’ll define and implement reliability from scratch:

• Own monitoring, alerting & observability
• Lead infrastructure as code strategy
• Improve fault tolerance & system resilience
• Support security & compliance initiatives
• Partner with engineering teams across UK and Africa
• Build scalable systems ready for growth

Think: secure, fault-tolerant, compliant systems in a regulated environment.

⚙ Tech Snapshot: GCP | Terraform | GraphQL | incident.io | PostHog | Agentic AI

What They’re Looking For

• 3+ years in Site Reliability Engineering / Platform / DevOps
• Experience in early-stage startups
• Ideally you've been the first or only SRE in a scaling team
• Strong product mindset: reliability that drives customer value
• Experience in regulated or sensitive environments (FinTech, Payments, HealthTech, etc.)
• Comfortable working across distributed teams

Startup experience is essential. You need to thrive in ambiguity and build structure where none exists.

Why Join?

• Founding-level ownership
• Real equity
• High-impact mission
• Work on meaningful financial crime problems
• Shape reliability across a growing, international team

If you want to build resilient infrastructure that directly reduces financial crime, this is your chance. Hit apply with your latests CV!

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

City of London

Type of Contract

Full Time Jobs

Published at

22-02-2026

Profession type

Accountancy

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English