Senior Platform Engineer

Bunch

bunch is building the backbone of private markets. We are enabling next-gen fund operations with one integrated system that combines secure data infrastructure, AI-powered workflows and expert fund services. If you value ownership, growth through real responsibility, and working with a thoughtful, ambitious team, this role might be for you. YOUR ROLE You will be at the core of building the technology that powers bunch. We aim to build something meaningful with high impact, not just write code. We offer you freedom and ownership to build the right solutions and influence the product roadmap. * Design and implement robust, scalable, and secure backend services that solve real customer problems * Collaborate with your Product Managers, by actively participating in problem discovery and solution creation by leveraging your technical expertise * Work closely with other cross-functional teams to ensure a smooth delivery of new features and improvements * Maximize your team’s output by enhancing functionality and proactively addressing technical debt as well as actively contributing to improving collaboration and communication   ABOUT YOU * To excel as a member of the Product Development team, you should combine a passion for technology with an entrepreneurial mindset and strong problem-solving skills * You are a team player with excellent communication skills and a strong work ethic * Proficient in backend development with TypeScript or any strongly typed language, SQL databases Nest.js or similar web/dependency management frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot) * Strong understanding of system design principles, scalability, and performance tuning * 5+ years of professional experience building backend systems in fast-paced environments * Experience with fintech, highly regulated industries, or document processing is a plus   OUR TECH STACK We strive to keep our technology stack as simple and efficient as possible. * Frontend & Backend: TypeScript on both the frontend (Svelte, but moving towards React) and the backend (Node.js with Nest.js) * Database: MySQL * Infrastructure: Kubernetes (K8S) on top of AWS * Source Control & CI/CD: GitHub * Third-Party Applications: * FusionAuth for authentication * Retool for low-code internal frontend solutions * Twilio and SendGrid for sending SMS and emails * Tally for creating custom forms   WORKPLACE & BENEFITS * Customizable benefits package (wellbeing, sport, mobility, food, and more) * 28 days of vacation, plus 2 company days and local public holidays * Remote setup * Up to 4 remote calendar weeks a year * A great tech and work setup * Work with a diverse team of 120+ bunchies from 40+ countries, with leaders who are best-in-class in their domains   WHAT YOUR INTERVIEW JOURNEY WILL LOOK LIKE * First interview with the People team (20 min): get acquainted with the bunch and to understand if what we’re offering is what you’re searching for * Hiring Manager Interview (60 min): this conversation with an Engineering Manager will cover product-focused culture and values, including collaboration, ownership, self-awareness, and quality standards. * Technical Interview (60 min): this interview in the form of a technical conversation with two engineers will focus on collaborative problem-solving, starting with open-ended questions and progressing to more specific challenges or short algorithm tasks. * Final Round: Meet our VP of Engineering (45 min) to learn about ways of working, vision for bunch, and team culture. * Meet-and-Greet (Optional - 30 min) to meet a few members of your future cross-functional team.   About bunch bunch is building the operating infrastructure for the next generation of private markets. We combine AI-powered automation with deep regulatory expertise to replace fragmented spreadsheets and manual processes with one integrated platform across the fund lifecycle, purpose-built for private markets heading toward $32 trillion in Assets Under Management. We've 4x our ARR in 2025, crossed 150 fund managers and 12,000 LPs on the platform, and just closed our $35M Series B in May 2026. We're looking for ambitious people who want real ownership of hard problems, and who care about building infrastructure that actually matters to the people using it. ____ At bunch, we're committed to an inclusive environment where diversity is valued and celebrated. We provide equal opportunities to all qualified applicants. We process personal data in line with applicable laws (including GDPR). See our Privacy Policy for details on your rights and how to reach us.

YLD

Location: Portugal (Remote anywhere in Portugal) Department: Engineering Employment Type: Permanent ABOUT YLD: Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay. We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done. ABOUT THE ROLE: As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You’ll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’ll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects. ABOUT YOU: A YLD Senior Data Engineer is a highly skilled engineer who spans across data engineering and analytics engineering, and knows where the boundaries sit. You've built pipelines and transformation layers. You've inherited messy data projects and made them good. You have opinions about how data teams should work and the humility to adapt them to context. You have a real passion for the craft and are an active learner who gets excited by the variety that consultancy brings: different clients, different stacks, different problems. YOUR DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES WILL LOOK LIKE THIS: * Delivering data work on client engagements: pipelines, transformation layers, models, and the infrastructure around them * Adapting to different client contexts, legacy warehouse migrations, greenfield lakehouses, struggling transformation layers that need rescuing * Defining and evolving our internal standards for data work: testing, documentation, project structure, code review * Mentoring and growing data engineers across the company * Showing up for client team moments (internal speakers, learning sessions, social events) to build strong working relationships. * Contributing to proposals and helping shape engagements during the sales process * Representing YLD externally through writing, speaking, and contributing to the wider data community. YOU’LL HAVE THE FOLLOWING SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: * SQL as engineering: You write SQL that's reviewable, testable, and performs at scale. You understand query planning, engine quirks, and how materialisation choices affect cost and performance * Python for data: You write typed, testable Python for pipelines and tooling. You've built and maintained production data systems, not just notebooks * Data modelling: You've made deliberate choices between dimensional, Data Vault, normalised, and denormalised designs. You can explain those trade-offs in terms of flexibility, query performance, and maintainability * Transformation architecture: You design transformations that are idempotent, incremental, and dependency-aware. You think in DAGs, not scripts * Pipeline design: You understand batch, streaming, and micro-batch trade-offs. You consider latency, complexity, cost, and reprocessability. And choose the right approach for the problem * Data testing: You write tests as code, schema contracts, assertions, and transformation logic. You know what to catch at build time vs. defer to observability * Data observability: You treat data reliability like site reliability. Measurable indicators, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis * CI/CD for data: You version, test, and deploy pipelines like software. Environment promotion, rollback strategies, and infrastructure as code for reproducible environments * Data governance: You've implemented lineage, cataloguing, sensitive data classification, or access control. Not just built pipelines, but made them auditable and secure * Cost-conscious: You've optimised warehouse spend, storage strategies, or job efficiency. You treat compute as a resource to manage, not ignore * Platform fluency: You've worked across the modern stack. Orchestration (Airflow, Dagster), warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks), ingestion (Fivetran, Airbyte, custom), and transformation (dbt, Spark) * Cross-functional fluency: You translate engineering constraints into business terms and negotiate realistic commitments YOU’LL BE: * Self-motivated and proactive * Comfortable with ambiguity, experimentation, and iteration * Collaborative by default. You work well in teams and across teams * Analytical and detail-oriented in your approach to problems * Comfortable context-switching across clients, stacks, and problem types * Willing to shape engagements, not just deliver them: contributing to proposals, scoping, and client relationships * Active in the wider data community: writing, speaking, or open-source contribution * Genuinely committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion   Benefits you'll get: * Company Private Health care * Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months * Company’s Pension Scheme (UK Only) * 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays) * £2000/€2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences * £300/€300 annual allowance for additional hardware * Wellbeing & Performance Support via Oli including Therapy and Coaching * Discretionary Bonus (depending on Company performance and results) * Company laptop * Generous referral schemes OUR TYPICAL RECRUITMENT PROCESS LOOKS LIKE THIS: * 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30-45 Minutes) * Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (90 Minutes) * Call with the Head of Engineering (60 Minutes) Get a glimpse of what it's like working at YLD! 🤳 Check out our LinkedIn page WE LIVE AND BREATHE OUR VALUES, AND KNOW YOU WILL TOO: * Growing every day * Including everyone * Relationships built on honesty and ethics * Inspiring solutions * Winning together We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for all employees.

Thought Machine

Thought Machine's mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking through core and payments technology which run natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology. We have grown rapidly in the past few years – growing our team to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and our newly established Engineering Hub in Lisbon. We have raised more than £500m in funding and our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, and more. We have created a culture that enables our team to produce the best work in the industry while ensuring we have fun along the way. We're regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture and have been recognised by Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech company and the industry's most generous employee share package. Named one of the world's most innovative fintechs by Global Finance Magazine, we were also recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies for two consecutive years—and a UK Best Employer for 2026. The Vault Expansion team at Thought Machine is responsible for shaping and delivering the product strategy to enable Thought Machine to better serve banks currently facing challenges with older, "bank-in-a-box" platforms. As the Product Manager in the Lisbon Vault Expansion team, you will be responsible for building a portfolio of products that complete the Vault Platform, offering clients seamless experiences, and value adding functionality beyond Vault Core and Vault Payments. You’ll own the roadmap and delivery of products and applications in the Vault Expansion portfolio, and work closely with Go-to-Market and Engineering leadership to drive revenue and product delivery. You will work cross-functionally with partnerships, compliance, legal, and partner product teams to build key use cases to delight our clients. This role is suited to someone who can wear many hats, and can operate autonomously. As Thought Machine’s first Product Manager in Lisbon, you will be responsible for defining, building, and delivering products working in lockstep with the Vault Expansion engineering team based in Lisbon. You will also be expected to support our GTM and marketing teams to build lead generation campaigns, join client calls and help pitch and sell future products, work with sales engineers to define compelling demos, and manage key product partnerships to augment the product offering. This is a full-time, permanent position based in our Lisbon office, requiring four days a week onsite. This role will also require occasional travel to our HQ in London, as well as travel to support sales teams. Duties: * Own the roadmap: Work alongside an engineering team to define a product strategy and roadmap that achieves the highest level of product quality and supports our clients’ ambitions. * Drive growth and adoption: Partner with GTM teams to bring our products to market and ensure we see adoption and growth. * Be the voice of the customer: You will represent the customer internally - collecting and capturing feedback, pursuing the highest levels of quality and enabling engineering teams to be laser focused on solving customer problems. * Champion insight: Relentlessly seek out customer problems, develop deep understanding of our customers’ needs, plans and technology and industry trends in the market to ensure the Vault Platform continues to help clients innovate. * Be a Product Evangelist: Champion the Vault Platform and Expansion products externally and within Thought Machine, clearly communicate the scale of the ambition within our product vision and the new functionality that will excite and delight our clients. * Develop best practices: Help drive Product Management best practices and processes - working with Engineering Managers and teams to ensure adoption and alignment across Vault Payments. * Innovate: Discover net-new opportunities for our business and lead them from nascent stages to maturity. Requirements Essential * 5+ years of product management experience in a product-led technology company * A proven track record of building and launching new products into market * Able to think from first principles, debate ideas and rapidly learn new concepts * Strong client-facing interpersonal skills and equally strong ability to engage in technical conversations * Comfortable working with API-driven products or infrastructure * A keen eye for UI/UX design, and working with wireframing tools like Figma Desirable * Previous experience launching AI related features within products * Previous experience working in regulated industries such as banking or financial services * Previous experience as a software engineer or similar technical roles * Previous experience building enterprise software products * Previous experience building brand new products or working in a startup environment * Previous experience working with data engineering Benefits * Highly competitive salary * Voluntary Pension Plan (match up to 5%) * Private Healthcare Insurance * Comprehensive Life Insurance * 25 days holiday plus public holidays * Two charity days a year * Daily Meal Allowance * Access to outstanding learning materials and courses * Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine * All the latest tech you need * Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks * A talented and experienced team as your colleagues * An environment where we encourage learning and progress We actively hire candidates who demonstrate technical excellence in their field and welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, providing everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't accurately match the job description. We also encourage applications from those with different abilities, including candidates with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia.