Platform Engineer

About us

We’re Littlepay - a growing fintech headquartered in Melbourne with operations in the UK, EU, LATAM, USA, and more recently, Australia. Our payments platform enables our customers to pay for public transport using any payment card, mobile wallet, or wearable device. Processing over USD 1 billion a year in 13 countries and continuing to expand globally, we’re proud to move more people through better payment experiences.

Our Littlepay values:

• Trust and be trustworthy
• Embrace challenge
• Solve problems, together
• Deliver with speed and agility
• Be candid and kind

About the Opportunity

The Littlepay Platform Team is both an internal enablement team responsible for build systems and developer experience, and the on-call owners of shared and fundamental production infrastructure. You’ll be working closely with both the Australian-based Platform Engineering team and the local Software Engineering team on build systems, production support, and PCI-compliant infrastructure. Reporting to the Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll support DevOps practices through tooling, vendor management and support. You’ll also work on and be on call for our base infrastructure across the platform, including networking, ECS runtime, PKI and RDS.

Key Responsibilities

This role calls for a DevOps enthusiast who can use their experience to:

• drive improvement of DevOps practises across engineering, through tooling, workshops, pairing, presentations, etc.
• maintain and improve build systems to the level of security required in a PCI environment
• support standard DevOps tooling across the business
• build and maintain robust automated systems

You’ll also be required to:

• write and maintain internal tools and services
• support the Littlepay engineering function
• do some grinding from time to time

Requirements

About you

Core Skills and Attributes

• programming and scripting - any language. Familiarity with Go, Bash and Java preferred, our primary team language is go
• communication - we do a lot of communicating and strong written and verbal will be important
• empathy - we’re a service provider, so having high empathy for our internal stakeholders is a big deal
• a love of learning - we take learning and growth seriously and you’ll need to be down with that

For this role we are specifically looking for candidates who are strong in:

• DevOps — releasing software is your jam, you know what a DORA metric is and how to use it to improve processes
• DevSecOps — security is at the heart of everything we do, so must be considered a fundamental part of the DevOps cycle
• “The cloud” — we use AWS, but the key here is experience with fundamental cloud services: network, storage, compute
• observability — have strong opinions about logs, traces, metrics, and alarms born from experience

Benefits

Our benefits

We love to look after our people. At Littlepay, you'll be part of an inclusive and diverse team that celebrates the differences and unique gifts we each bring to work.

You’ll have access to:

• A high trust working environment, with usage of cloud collaboration tools like Notion, Slack, Miro, Gmail and Jira that help us work together effectively
• Paid professional development (including conferences, courses, learning subscriptions, etc.)
• Harrison Assessments - our talent management provider that facilitates continuous professional development
• A variety of flexible leave options
• A company-wide paid day off
• Our flexible public holiday program
• Flexible (hybrid) working conditions
• Wellbeing support- including a free School of Life subscription for all employees
• Our generous employee referral program
• Mid-year, quarterly, and end-of-year corporate and team events and workshops
• Short-term remote working arrangements
• International travel opportunities (dependent on role)

In-office expectations

At Littlepay, we believe great work happens when we solve problems, together. We see in-person collaboration as an important way to build connections, share ideas, and support each other meaningfully.

For those assigned to an office location, we generally expect a minimum two-day presence in the office each week. This may vary depending on your role, team, and location. For example, our team in Luxembourg works 4 days from the office, whereas our AU and UK teams currently work a minimum of 2 days onsite in our Melbourne/London offices. Some positions might require more frequent office attendance to support cross-functional collaboration, customer engagement, or specific team workflows. Your hiring manager will provide details relevant to your role.

We aim to strike a healthy balance between in-person connection and flexibility, while staying connected to deliver with speed and agility as we continue to scale, ensuring our ways of working support both our people and our shared ambition to move more people through better payment experiences.

Our recruitment process

If you’ve been shortlisted for the role, you’ll first have a chat with our Talent team, who will set up an interview if the stars align. A short workplace preferences questionnaire will also be sent to help us learn more about the way you prefer to work. Following a successful first interview, you’ll be sent a technical challenge to complete. If we like what we see, we’ll invite you to meet with a second set of Littlepay folks before being presented with an offer.

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process or if you require any accommodations for any stage in the interview process, please don’t hesitate to let us know. Additionally, if you don’t meet all of the criteria (we know that some underrepresented groups tend to avoid applying if they don’t), please still apply. We really enjoy meeting people who might bring a fresh perspective on a problem we need to solve!

Ultimately, being part of our small but mighty team means you'll have the opportunity to learn about micropayments, and have a hand in the provision of services that impact millions of people. You’ll help us deliver on our revolutionary product roadmap and help scale our platform as we continue to expand across the globe.

If this opportunity interests you, hit apply! We look forward to learning about you.