Ratepay is a dynamic and innovative fintech company dedicated to revolutionizing payment solutions in the online retail sector. We empower e-commerce businesses with flexible and secure payment options, allowing them to optimize their revenue streams.
Ratepay is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer with a strong background in cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices, including expertise in AWS, automation, and CI/CD pipelines. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining a scalable, secure, and high-performing platform that supports our software development teams in bringing services to production, optimizing system performance, ensuring compliance, and driving operational excellence through improved observability and incident management.
Key Responsibilities
Operation of applications and infrastructure in the cloud with the usage of IaC tooling (Terraform and Terragrunt)
Support software engineer teams in maintaining their cloud-native applications in our Cloud infrastructure
Managing various native services of our Cloud Provider (AWS)
Scaling and optimizing the platform for performance
Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving issues
Monitoring and analyzing platform performance
Evaluating and integrating new technologies and tools to improve the platform
Implementing security measures and ensuring compliance with standards
Documenting platform architecture and processes
That's What You Bring Along
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS): Hands-on experience managing infrastructure in AWS, which is our primary platform for hosting and scaling services
Terraform and Terragrunt: Proven ability to deploy and manage infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt, ensuring consistent and automated provisioning
Networking: Solid understanding of networking principles to manage connectivity and communication between infrastructure components
DevOps Tooling and Practices: Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), configuration management, monitoring, and logging to support reliable software delivery and operations
Version Control (Git): Experience using Git for source control and collaborative development
OpsGenie: Familiarity with incident management workflows using OpsGenie to ensure timely alerting and response
Preferred Qualifications
Programming and Scripting: Ability to write scripts or small tools to support automation and assist software engineers with troubleshooting
Linux System Administration: Foundational knowledge of Linux for effective system monitoring, debugging, and recovery
Jira and Confluence: Experience working in agile environments using these tools for task tracking and documentation
Ansible: Familiarity with Ansible for configuring and managing legacy systems
Messaging Systems: Understanding of systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Kinesis, which are central to service communication
Virtualization and Containers: Knowledge of tools such as Docker, Podman, VMWare, or OpenStack to manage virtual environments and containers
Equal Opportunities & Diversity
We value our diversity and welcome everyone to our team. Regardless of ethnic and social background, religious beliefs, worldview, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental limitations, age, marital status, educational background and nationality. With over 200 employees and 40 different nationalities, we take our values seriously. These include ownership, growth, integrity, collaboration, customer centricity and inclusion.
About Us
We dare to design the future of payments. Ratepay is energy and diversity and: custom-made state-of-the-art payment solutions. Established in 2009 we were a fintech before the word fintech even existed. Today we are the number one white-label Buy Now Pay Later payments provider in Europe handling over 2.5M transactions per month and we’re constantly growing.
We are where we are because we work together as one team. Because we got the freedom to execute ideas. And above everything: because we never stop improving. Here it is all about shared goals not about the big ego. We are dedicated pros (more than 250 of them) not cons. We embrace being courageous, committed and decisive, warm-hearted and having a will to win.
We have our origin in the heart of the payment scene and cover the whole value chain from integration support to the dunning process with a core of AI-based risk management. With us, you can integrate direct debit, instalments and prepayment. In other words: the favourite payment methods in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the Dutch like it too). Located in the middle of Europe’s fintech metropolis (Berlin) we are proud to work with major partners such as Eurowings, Ebay and About You and hundreds more.
