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⚡ Senior Platform Engineer, Quality Systems 📍 Remote (US) 💲 Competitive base + equity 🕒 Full-time | 5+ years experience I’m supporting our client, a high-impact fintech infrastructure company, as they hire a Senior Platform Engineer focused on Quality Systems and release confidence. The platform processes 100M+ in weekly transaction volume across payments, fraud detection, and compliance workflows. Reliability isn’t optional. Releases need to be fast, safe, and predictable. This role sits within platform engineering, with a clear mandate: build the systems that make shipping safer and easier for the entire engineering team. The Opportunity You’ll design and build the infrastructure that enables: • Safer, faster releases • High-confidence validation of core payment workflows • Production-like staging environments • Better visibility into release health and regressions This is a high-leverage role where the tooling you build compounds over time as the team scales. What You’ll Do Build Release Confidence Systems • Design automated smoke tests and workflow validations for critical payment flows • Integrate validation into CI pipelines and release gates • Turn regressions into durable automated safeguards Improve Environment Fidelity • Make staging and testing environments behave more like production • Improve data hygiene, environment health checks, and repeatable test scenarios Develop Test Infrastructure • Build frameworks and harnesses for API and event-driven workflow testing • Implement partner simulations, contract checks, and integration validations • Strengthen testing around asynchronous systems (webhooks, retries, delayed workflows) Strengthen CI & Developer Workflows • Improve CI speed and signal • Reduce flaky tests and make failures easier to debug • Build tooling that reduces manual steps and increases engineering velocity Improve Observability & Operational Guardrails • Enhance release dashboards and visibility • Partner on canaries, rollout strategies, rollback patterns, and monitoring • Use logs, metrics, and tracing to proactively improve release safety What They’re Looking For • 5+ years building and operating production systems • Experience building test infrastructure, automation frameworks, CI gates, or developer productivity tooling • Strong systems thinking and pragmatic problem-solving • Experience with distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, and state transitions Technical Stack • Strong coding ability in Python (Python 3) or another backend language • Experience building integration and workflow tests beyond basic unit tests • CI pipeline optimisation and test reliability improvements • Cloud infrastructure experience (GCP preferred or similar platforms) • Familiarity with observability tools (logs, metrics, tracing, alerting) Preferred Experience • Payments, money movement, reconciliation, risk, or compliance systems • Systems dependent on external APIs and webhooks • Release engineering practices including gates, canaries, and rollback playbooks • Improving staging fidelity and managing complex test environments Why Apply? • Direct impact within a small, high-calibre engineering team • High-leverage platform work that improves reliability and velocity across the company • Ownership of foundational release and quality systems • Remote-first culture within the US • Opportunity to shape engineering standards as the business scales This role suits engineers who enjoy building tooling and infrastructure that makes the entire team stronger. Interested in applying? Click Easy Apply or email me at ben.watts@storm2.com Storm2 is a specialist FinTech recruitment firm with clients across Europe, APAC, and North America. To discuss open opportunities or career options, visit storm2.com and follow the Storm2 LinkedIn page for the latest roles and market intel.