Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

At Bondora, our mission is clear: to empower people to enjoy life more while alleviating the stress of managing finances. Founded in 2008, Bondora has proudly served a diverse community of over 1 million customers for an impressive 16 years.

As a rapidly growing financial technology company, we’re reaching new heights with a bold vision. We’re set to acquire a banking license, unlocking a world of possibilities for our customers. Our investment product is available Europe-wide, and we’re actively expanding our loan product footprint to 11 new countries.

Join us on this journey and let’s build the future of finance together!

What is this role about?

As Engineering Manager, you’ll make sure infrastructure stays a couple of steps ahead of our ambitious growth plans. You’ll take full ownership: discovery of needs, design, implementation, capacity planning, budgeting, and so on. You’ll be encouraged to work with best technologies, apply industry best practices and automate the tedious.

It’s a rare chance to join when most interesting decisions are still yours to make and you get to build infrastructure in your own image. You’ll enjoy a high degree of ownership, diverse set of problems (cloud, developer experience, databases, provisioning etc.) and an environment that values problem-solving and collaboration. 

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Build a reliable platform for our products, making sure that up-time, monitoring and recovery meet up to the modern standard.
• Standardized and automate infrastructure tasks so that engineers are able to self-serve and benefit from best practices
• Build a developer experience that allows to ship without friction, confidently and daily, making best practices available to teams through tooling and automation.
• Take ownership of the platform infrastructure budget; managing capacity and cost efficiency.
• Be the topmost coach and expert in all matters infrastructure at Bondora.

What you’ll bring:

• 5+ years of experience in leading engineering teams
• Good understanding of cloud systems design and architecture
• Good knowledge of Azure (preferred) or other major cloud provider setup and services
• Strong understanding of metrics, logging, tracing, and tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry
• Ability to read/write code in languages like Python plus automation with Bash or similar
• Understanding of networking and security fundamentals
• Bonus
• Experience in a regulated space, preferably Finance/Credit
• Experience provisioning with Terraform

What can you expect in Bondora? 

• 🎯 Be part of Bondora’s ambitious journey toward 1BN in revenue - your work will have a real impact.
• 💰 Enjoy a competitive salary and amazing benefits: 5 weeks of vacation, private healthcare compensation, hobby grant, mental health support, share options, and much more!
• 📈 Work in an environment that encourages growth and innovation - with resources and budget for continuous learning

The next steps: 

If you have the guts, ideas, and a team vision, apply now! 

Our hiring process: 

• Meet Karl, our Recruiter - your first chat to share your story and ambitions.
• Complete our personality and logic assessments via Alva Labs.
• Meet Mirko, our CPTO. 
• Discuss a case study with Kristo, our Engineering Manager and Kaur, our Head of Information Security
• Chat with Pärtel, Founder & CEO
   🎉 If the stars align — welcome to Bondora!

Join our team of Bondorians, and let's make it happen!

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