Senior Software Engineer

About the Company

At Redpin, we simplify life's most important payments. Buying a property overseas can be stressful—especially when it comes to moving money. Through our Currencies Direct and TorFX brands, we've been helping customers do exactly that for over 25 years.

With recent investment, we are building a new generation of digital products and services that make international real estate payments simpler, faster, and more transparent.

As part of Redpin 2.0, we are transforming from a horizontal FX platform into a verticalized, embedded software company, positioning ourselves as the global solution for real estate payments.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer – DevOps, you will play a key hands-on role in designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure and DevOps platforms that power Redpin's digital products.

This role focuses heavily on AWS, CI/CD, automation, reliability, security, and cost optimization, while working closely with engineering teams to enable fast, secure, and reliable software delivery at scale.

What You'll Do

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)

• Design, provision, and operate secure, scalable AWS infrastructure
• Work across compute, networking, storage, and IAM
• Support multi-account AWS environments and apply governance guardrails
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure issues

CI/CD & DevOps Automation

• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for application and microservices teams
• (preferably using GitLab or GitHub)
• Automate build, test, security scanning, and deployments
• Implement deployment strategies such as blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments
• Improve pipeline performance, stability, and developer experience

Cloud Security & Governance (Execution Focus)

• Implement AWS security best practices including IAM, VPC security, encryption, and secrets management
• Enforce tagging standards, access controls, and policy guardrails
• Integrate security scanning (SAST, DAST, container scanning) into CI/CD pipelines
• Support audit and compliance requirements

Reliability & Observability

• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions
• Build dashboards for system health, availability, and performance
• Improve system reliability through automation and proactive monitoring

Cloud Cost Optimization

• Monitor and optimize AWS costs across services
• Implement right-sizing, autoscaling, and storage lifecycle policies
• Support Savings Plans and Reserved Instance optimization
• Promote cost-efficient cloud usage and architecture

DevOps Best Practices

• Apply and promote DevOps principles such as automation, CI/CD, and IaC
• Reduce operational toil through tooling and automation
• Support teams in adopting cloud-native and DevOps best practices

Collaboration & Mentorship

• Work closely with application, SRE, and security teams
• Mentor junior DevOps engineers through code reviews and hands-on guidance
• Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and operational standards

What You'll Need

• 6+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, ECS, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, CloudWatch)
• Proven experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, GitHub etc.)
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
• Solid understanding of Linux, networking, and cloud security
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
• Strong troubleshooting and automation skills

Bonus Points

• AWS Config, CloudTrail, GuardDuty
• Observability tools (Corologix, ELK, Datadog)
• GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash
• Exposure to FinOps practices
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where we connect the dots for international property payments. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let's move the world of PropTech forward, together.

Redpin, Currencies Direct and TorFX are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.