Signicat is a pan-European digital identity company that makes it easy and safe for organisations to know who they are interacting with online. Using our proprietary technology, we help companies and public organisations securely verify the identities of people and businesses, authenticate users, and enable compliant electronic document signing, so their customers can access services and complete online processes with confidence.

The Role

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design and build the global Signicat Digital Trust Platform for all digital identity needs across borders - in every step of the customer journey. We're looking for an innovative and passionate Senior Engineer to join our Platform Tribe. You'll help design, build, and manage the software systems and infrastructure that powers our services. You will be working with engineers, product managers and security experts to help us create a better experience for millions of users. We have various exciting projects and always strive to push the envelope with our work. All this to accelerate trusted digital business.

How you'll make an impact

• You'll think deeply about systems - their edge cases, failure modes, and life cycles to craft robust but manageable solutions to meet product requirements while utilizing best-of-breed solutions and tools whenever possible

• You'll work closely with product owners to design systems and platform capabilities that increase speed to market for features that delight our end users, while making these systems observable, reliable and deployable for our engineers

• You'll be a champion and a solid hands-on practitioner for DevOps best practices

• You'll offer mentorship and guidance on the best ways to design and implement platform-level solutions across all our products

• You'll be an experienced voice that helps define our platform and technology roadmap

Why we'll love you

• You design, build and deploy scalable services

• You decompose services into their concerns, i.e., performance, reliability, security, scalability, usability, and compliance

• You guide teams to use the platform in a secure, resilient and effective manner

• You have experience managing and debugging distributed services

• You have experience designing, managing, and debugging solutions that include cloud services like Kubernetes, Istio, cert-manager, and Open Policy Agent.

• You are well-versed in Cloud PaaS (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure or similar)

• You know how to work with high-volume transaction environments

This is a wish list, if you have half of it we are already interested!

What we offer:

• Tailored benefits package by location - we aim to empower our employees by offering customised benefits suited to each market

• Your tech, your way - choose the tech gear that aligns with your comfort and meets your preferences

• Hybrid work style - collaborate with the team in-office several days a week and embrace the flexible work model

• Work-life balance - enjoy extra paid days off annually, and we make sure to celebrate your work anniversaries to acknowledge the milestones you achieve

• Health & Wellness - we prioritise your physical and mental well-being by providing designated packs and access to the Headspace app

• Continuous growth - quarterly development talks, a dedicated time during working hours each week for training and development, access to Udemy courses, defined career paths, and internal mentorship opportunities

• Customised onboarding - we will prepare an Onboarding Plan to ensure an easy and smooth beginning

• Be part of an international team - the opportunity to work from any other Signicat office for 2 months per year and 3 weeks per year from any EU country

• Empowering feedback culture - by using employee engagement tools, we ensure that every voice is heard, empowering us to grow together

• Meet-ups - frequent office gatherings and biennial Kick-off event to bring every Signicat under one roof that you don't want to miss