About the Role 
As a Software Engineer at LHV, you’ll help build and maintain the systems that power our Retail Banking Platform. You’ll design and develop scalable backend services, work with modern cloud-native technologies, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our engineering practices. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving technical challenges, collaborating across teams, and writing clean, reliable code that delivers real value to customers.

Key Responsibilities: 

Software Development: 

• Design, develop, and maintain services that support LHV’s Retail Banking platform and third-party integrations.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, following best practices and team standards.
• Take ownership of mid-sized features from design through to deployment.
• Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback. 

Testing & Reliability: 

• Write and maintain unit and integration tests to ensure reliability of services.
• Debug and resolve issues in distributed systems.
• Contribute to improvements in automation, testing, and CI/CD pipelines. 

Collaboration & Communication: 

• Work closely with product owners, analysts, and engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Contribute to technical discussions, proposing improvements in design, architecture, or processes.
• Mentor junior engineers, sharing knowledge and supporting their growth.
• Communicate progress, risks, and challenges effectively with stakeholders. 

Learning & Growth: 

• Stay up to date with modern tools, frameworks, and industry best practices.
• Build knowledge of financial services and regulated environments.
• Actively participate in team knowledge-sharing and retrospectives. 

Required Skills: 

Essential 

• Solid experience in software engineering, ideally with backend systems. 
• Proficiency in Kotlin or Java with willingness to upskill to Kotlin. 
• Confident with different types and levels of data stores, such as Cache, SQS and NoSql.  
• Familiarity with cloud environments, ideally AWS. 
• Experience with distributed systems and containerised applications (e.g., Kubernetes). 
• Understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines. 
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills. 
• Good communication skills and a collaborative, team-first mindset. 

Desirable 

• Experience with gRPC or other service-to-service communication frameworks. 
• Exposure to AWS services such as EventBridge, Step Functions, SQS, DynamoDB or Lambda. 
• Some experience with JavaScript/TypeScript (useful for AWS Lambdas). 
• Experience with Github Actions. 
• Background in financial services or regulated industries. 
• Interest in system scalability, resilience, and continuous improvement. 

What we’re looking for 

• Doer mindset – you like to make progress, not just plans. 

• Product-oriented – you care about building systems that solve real user problems. 

• Curious and hungry – you want to keep learning and pushing boundaries. 

• Team-first – you thrive on collaboration and shared ownership. 

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

The responsibilities of our Platform team include building and maintaining all backend services, including, but not limited to, payments, analytics, subscriptions, new products, text to speech, and external APIs.

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, is passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust APIs including public TTS API, internal APIs like Payment, Subscription, Auth and Consumption Tracking, ensuring they meet business and scalability requirements
• Oversee the full backend API landscape, enhancing and optimizing for performance and maintainability
• Collaborate on B2B solutions, focusing on customization and integration needs for enterprise clients
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to align backend architecture with overall product strategy and user experience

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Proven experience in backend development: TS/Node (required)
• Direct experience with GCP and knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Efficiency in ideation and implementation, prioritizing tasks based on urgency and impact
• Preferred: Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
• Preferred: Proficiency in deploying high availability applications on Kubernetes

What We Offer

• A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products
• A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive
• Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity
• The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry
• Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture
• The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more
• An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

The Opportunity 

The DevSecOps Engineer role has been created to embed security into our engineering, DevOps and cloud delivery pipelines. Working closely with our Development, DevOps, Infrastructure and Security teams, you will engineer, automate and maintain security controls across our CI/CD pipelines, cloud workloads and application lifecycle. 

This position is critical in uplifting our secure by design practices, reducing vulnerabilities, and ensuring our rapidly evolving development environments adhere to best-in-class security standards. (Infosec presentations highlight the explicit gap for DevSecOps capability and security integration into Dev and Cloud projects).

Key Responsibilities

• Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or equivalent). 
• Implement automated SAST, SCA, DAST, container scanning and secrets management controls. (Referenced in secure development lifecycle expectations.)   
• Work with Development and DevOps teams to ensure secure design principles, threat modelling and secure coding practices are embedded early in the lifecycle. 
• Engineer and maintain tooling for vulnerability management across code, containers, pipelines and cloud workloads. 
• Automate security guardrails across Azure resources, Kubernetes clusters, API gateways, serverless workloads and service meshes. 
• Support and enhance the deployment of security policies (IAM, key vaults, network controls, hardening baselines). 
• Partner with engineering squads to review architecture changes and ensure security requirements are addressed. 
• Contribute to incident response activities where application or pipeline security is implicated. 
• Contribute to uplift of our secure engineering policies, developer training and SSDLC processes. (Supports expectations stated in internal assessments and training docs).

Requirements:

• Experienced in DevOps or platform engineering with a strong security mindset. 
• Hands-on experience with at least one CI/CD platform (Azure DevOps preferred). 
• Good understanding of application security principles (OWASP Top 10, SANS/CWE Top 25). 
• Experience integrating or running security scanners: SAST, SCA, DAST, container scanning, IaC scanning. 
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Helm). 
• Familiar with cloud security (preferably Azure) and container security best practices. 
• Capable of supporting vulnerability management processes and remediation workflows. 
• Ability to collaborate with Software Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud and Security teams. 
• Strong communicator able to translate risk into engineering friendly language. 

Nice to Have:

• Kubernetes (AKS), service mesh, container runtime security. 
• Experience integrating security telemetry into SIEM/SOAR pipelines. 
• Exposure to Zero Trust design principles. 
• Threat modelling and automated security testing frameworks. 

The Opportunity 

The DevSecOps Engineer role has been created to embed security into our engineering, DevOps and cloud delivery pipelines. Working closely with our Development, DevOps, Infrastructure and Security teams, you will engineer, automate and maintain security controls across our CI/CD pipelines, cloud workloads and application lifecycle. 

This position is critical in uplifting our secure by design practices, reducing vulnerabilities, and ensuring our rapidly evolving development environments adhere to best-in-class security standards. (Infosec presentations highlight the explicit gap for DevSecOps capability and security integration into Dev and Cloud projects).

Key Responsibilities

• Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or equivalent). 
• Implement automated SAST, SCA, DAST, container scanning and secrets management controls. (Referenced in secure development lifecycle expectations.)   
• Work with Development and DevOps teams to ensure secure design principles, threat modelling and secure coding practices are embedded early in the lifecycle. 
• Engineer and maintain tooling for vulnerability management across code, containers, pipelines and cloud workloads. 
• Automate security guardrails across Azure resources, Kubernetes clusters, API gateways, serverless workloads and service meshes. 
• Support and enhance the deployment of security policies (IAM, key vaults, network controls, hardening baselines). 
• Partner with engineering squads to review architecture changes and ensure security requirements are addressed. 
• Contribute to incident response activities where application or pipeline security is implicated. 
• Contribute to uplift of our secure engineering policies, developer training and SSDLC processes. (Supports expectations stated in internal assessments and training docs).

Requirements:

• Experienced in DevOps or platform engineering with a strong security mindset. 
• Hands-on experience with at least one CI/CD platform (Azure DevOps preferred). 
• Good understanding of application security principles (OWASP Top 10, SANS/CWE Top 25). 
• Experience integrating or running security scanners: SAST, SCA, DAST, container scanning, IaC scanning. 
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Helm). 
• Familiar with cloud security (preferably Azure) and container security best practices. 
• Capable of supporting vulnerability management processes and remediation workflows. 
• Ability to collaborate with Software Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud and Security teams. 
• Strong communicator able to translate risk into engineering friendly language. 

Nice to Have:

• Kubernetes (AKS), service mesh, container runtime security. 
• Experience integrating security telemetry into SIEM/SOAR pipelines. 
• Exposure to Zero Trust design principles. 
• Threat modelling and automated security testing frameworks. 

The Role 

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Manager who is, first and foremost, a people leader.

In this role, your primary responsibility is the health, performance, and career growth of your engineering team. While you must possess a solid technical background to understand the challenges your team faces, your day-to-day focus will not be hands-on technical work. Instead, you will use your experience to remove blockers, guide decision-making, and ensure your engineers have the environment they need to succeed.

You will act as the bridge between technical execution and business strategy, team budget management, defining roadmaps, and ensuring operational excellence across a complex hybrid (predominantly on-prem and some cloud) estate.

The Team You Will Lead 

You will lead the Infrastructure Solutions team within the wider Technical Operations department. Your engineers are responsible for building the environment, delivering projects as requested by Engineering and Product, and ensuring we remain available, scalable, and secure. They are not responsible for the BAU function of the platforms that is managed by another team within Technical Operations. The Infrastructure Solutions team takes a concept or idea and makes that into a reality within the boundaries and constraints of our platforms. 

You will be managing a team of engineers who individually possess experience in:

• On-Premise Linux systems, Container solutions, Debian packaging, Ansible, data streaming and queuing technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Advanced database management knowledge (MySQL, Postgres) in replicated environments.
• Physical Network management, with an on-prem estate that is Juniper focused. 
• Cloud environments: GCP and AWS
• Platform engineer focused on building, maintaining and supporting an Internal Developer Platform (CI/CD)

The Operational Reality

It is important to be transparent about the environment you are joining. We operate at high velocity with a broad and complex technology estate. However, we are a lean team, not a giant corporation with endless resources.

• Context Switching is the Norm
• You will rarely have the luxury of focusing on a single task for weeks at a time. You will be required to shift focus multiple times a week, and sometimes multiple times a day, as business priorities evolve.
• Agility over Silos
• Because we are a lean team, we wear many hats. You must be comfortable pivoting from a strategic discussion to an operational challenge without losing momentum.
• Focus Management
• Success in this role requires the ability to maintain high standards while navigating a workload that changes dynamically. This is not a role for those who prefer a slow, singular focus; it is for those who thrive on variety, pace, and solving complex problems in real-time.

As the Senior Infrastructure Manager, You Will:

People Leadership & Talent Development

• Team Management
• Lead, mentor, and motivate a team of infrastructure engineers. Conduct weekly 1-2-1s, manage performance reviews, and handle all aspects of people management.
• Formal Training & Growth
• Go beyond ad-hoc mentoring to schedule and lead formal training sessions regarding operational improvements. Actively create professional development plans for your direct reports.
• Recruitment & Retention
• Own the hiring process for your team, ensuring we attract top talent and maintain a supportive, inclusive culture.
• Culture of Learning
• Foster a "Self-Learner" mindset. Create a transparent environment where failures are treated as learning opportunities and documented as such for future reference.

Strategic & Operational Management

• Budget & Capacity Planning
• Ability to own your team's budget and lead capacity planning initiatives. You will forecast future infrastructure needs to ensure we remain scalable while managing spend for subscriptions and hardware.
• Risk & Contingency
• Proactively identify operational risks and form contingency plans immediately to ensure business continuity.
• Procedure & Frameworks
• Ability to define, maintain, and cascade operational procedures (SOPs) and ITIL standards.
• Prioritisation
• Shield your team from noise by effectively prioritising workloads (Changes, Problems, and Projects) and managing stakeholder expectations.

Technical Support & Oversight

• Performance Optimisation
• Measure and optimise system performance with a focus on improving reliability and time-to-market. You will drive innovation to get ahead of internal customer needs rather than just reacting to them.
• Visual Documentation
• Ensure the team produces detailed system design documentation, specifically enforcing the inclusion of visual representations to support understanding. Ability to technologically assess it as a technical editor.
• Hybrid Estate Management
• Ability to oversee the management of both On-Premise and Cloud (GCP/AWS), ensuring high availability across all environments.
• Unblocking Issues
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex technical issues. Your goal is not to fix the issue yourself, but to coordinate the right resources and provide air cover.

General Duties

On-Call DutiesWillingness to participate in the Management On-Call Rotation to support the department and the business (Current frequency: Once every three weeks).Ad-HocCarry out other strategic or technical duties required to support the Director/VP of Technical Operations.

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Leadership & Management Competencies

• Proven Management Experience
• Significant experience leading a technical team, with a specific focus on the people management aspect (performance reviews, career growth etc).
• Project Management
• Strong project management experience with the ability to delegate effectively to meet tight deadlines. You must be able to multitask and maintain focus in a high-priority environment.
• Communication
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. You must be able to liaise effectively with management and other business areas. Engagement may also include interactions with senior technical engineers/leaders within other teams and C-Team members. 
• Goal Oriented
• You must be highly goal-oriented with strict attention to detail, capable of prioritising workload and demand to ensure targets are met.
• ITIL Application / Lean Six Sigma
• Deep knowledge of and experience with ITIL practices, with the ability to apply them to improve team workflows. Demonstrated ability to apply Lean Six Sigma concepts.

Technical Environment & Team Capabilities

Focusing on the technical skills that your engineers possess, it would be ideal if you had a decent working knowledge of each of the areas. Hands-on expertise in every area is not required, but the ability to hold and facilitate discussions, know when to push or hold back and when to ask poignant questions will help you effectively mentor the team and guide architectural decisions. 

For reference from above these areas are: on-prem and AWS/GCP solutions; system design from network to application level; resilient database availability strategies; automation and configuration management via Ansible, Docker and CI/CD; programming awareness in Python; Linux administration.

Your willingness to learn what you don’t know is required to succeed in this role and we will support you through that journey.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

The following skills or experiences are advantageous but not strictly required. They would be utilised for facilitating tasks rather than for direct, hands-on implementation.

• Innovation & Debt Management
• A keen interest in new technologies and innovation, specifically supporting development teams in the refactoring of technical debt.
• Advanced Containerization
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and container ecosystems.
• Observability
• Experience with monitoring systems (e.g., Zabbix, Grafana) and logging stacks (Elasticsearch, Kibana).
• Data Streaming
• Experience with data streaming and queuing technologies, specifically Apache Kafka and Druid.
• Web & Storage
• Knowledge of Nginx (or other web server technologies) and storage technologies like Gluster.
• Tooling
• Proficiency with JIRA and Confluence for project tracking and documentation.
• Version Control
• strong understanding of Git and version control best practices.

Why This Role?

If you are an experienced technical leader who finds more satisfaction in growing people and building high-performing teams than in closing tickets yourself, this is the role for you. You will have the autonomy to shape the culture of the Infrastructure function and the strategic backing to make a real impact on the business

A Note to Candidates

At Partnerize, we recognise that the perfect candidate doesn't exist. If you are a strong people manager with a background in tech, but maybe haven't touched a command line in a few years - that’s okay! We are looking for leadership first. We encourage you to apply if you feel you have the management skills to help our team thrive.

UK Benefits & Perks

• 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays 
• Enhanced Parental Leave: 6 months full pay for birth parent, 4 weeks non-birth parent at full pay after one year employment
• 5 extra 'Partnerize Parental Days' each year
• Private Medical Insurance through Vitality 
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Cycle to Work scheme 
• Eye Care Vouchers 
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Wellness Program including access to EAP, Wellness Coaching & Wellness Fridays program
• Regular company events and activities

The Opportunity 

The DevSecOps Engineer role has been created to embed security into our engineering, DevOps and cloud delivery pipelines. Working closely with our Development, DevOps, Infrastructure and Security teams, you will engineer, automate and maintain security controls across our CI/CD pipelines, cloud workloads and application lifecycle. 

This position is critical in uplifting our secure by design practices, reducing vulnerabilities, and ensuring our rapidly evolving development environments adhere to best-in-class security standards. (Infosec presentations highlight the explicit gap for DevSecOps capability and security integration into Dev and Cloud projects).

Key Responsibilities

• Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or equivalent). 
• Implement automated SAST, SCA, DAST, container scanning and secrets management controls. (Referenced in secure development lifecycle expectations.)   
• Work with Development and DevOps teams to ensure secure design principles, threat modelling and secure coding practices are embedded early in the lifecycle. 
• Engineer and maintain tooling for vulnerability management across code, containers, pipelines and cloud workloads. 
• Automate security guardrails across Azure resources, Kubernetes clusters, API gateways, serverless workloads and service meshes. 
• Support and enhance the deployment of security policies (IAM, key vaults, network controls, hardening baselines). 
• Partner with engineering squads to review architecture changes and ensure security requirements are addressed. 
• Contribute to incident response activities where application or pipeline security is implicated. 
• Contribute to uplift of our secure engineering policies, developer training and SSDLC processes. (Supports expectations stated in internal assessments and training docs).

Requirements:

• Experienced in DevOps or platform engineering with a strong security mindset. 
• Hands-on experience with at least one CI/CD platform (Azure DevOps preferred). 
• Good understanding of application security principles (OWASP Top 10, SANS/CWE Top 25). 
• Experience integrating or running security scanners: SAST, SCA, DAST, container scanning, IaC scanning. 
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Helm). 
• Familiar with cloud security (preferably Azure) and container security best practices. 
• Capable of supporting vulnerability management processes and remediation workflows. 
• Ability to collaborate with Software Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud and Security teams. 
• Strong communicator able to translate risk into engineering friendly language. 

Nice to Have:

• Kubernetes (AKS), service mesh, container runtime security. 
• Experience integrating security telemetry into SIEM/SOAR pipelines. 
• Exposure to Zero Trust design principles. 
• Threat modelling and automated security testing frameworks.