Your mission will be:

We’re looking for someone that is in touch with the technology, that likely can still write code occasionally, that knows the difference between Kafka, Kubernetes, Kotlin, and Queuing, and can find their way around large distributed microservice platforms (written in golang would be great, but not essential),  ensuring 100ms P99 latencies, event driven architecture, big data analytics (billion+ new rows per day), and very large online application data. If that sounds like you, and you have architected systems at consumer-facing internet-scale before, we want to speak to you.

• Work with Staff Engineers, Principal Engineers, our CTO, Timothy Stranex (ex-Google) and our VP of Engineering, Simon Ince (ex-Microsoft) on feature projects  that bring Crypto to the masses, and deeply technical projects to scale out our platform and drive our stability to be world beating.
• Leading thinking on how our systems and software architecture evolves.
• Understanding and articulating what we need to do to provide unbeatable reliability and performance for our customers
• Carefully planning how we implement changes in our stack without negatively impacting our customers.
• Designing and establishing processes and support mechanisms for our teams, to provide architecture & design governance and oversight, while complementing our agile ways of working.
• Challenging our Engineering teams and leaders to consider different approaches, technologies, or paradigms where they will give us a competitive advantage.
• Championing and designing for compliance, security, and data protection.
• Being a lead contributor to our long term Engineering Strategy.

A little about you:

• Experience in leading the architecture of consumer-facing, highly scalable software systems built by teams of over 100 heads.
• Experience in evolving architecture processes and practices that enable a skilled agile team to move with autonomy at high pace.
• Experience writing code, designing, and delivering software systems.
• Understanding of at least one cloud platform, ideally AWS.
• To be friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed.

It’s completely OK if you don’t tick all of the boxes – they’re a guide based on what we’d love to see but we appreciate that excellent engineering leaders have diverse backgrounds.

What stack we work on:

• Go(lang), gRPC
• Terrafrom & Hashicorp 
• Kubernetes (EKS), Docker
• CloudFlare, CloudFront, nginx
• MySQL (RDS), Redis (ElastiCache), etcd
• Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Jenkins

Life at Luno:

• Forward-thinking and ambitious team that values diversity, hard work, and the continuous quest for excellence.
• Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
• Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance. 
• Free training courses on Udemy and CodeAcademy.
• 0 fees with Luno from the day you start.
• Generous maternity / paternity and even paw-ternity for your furry friend.
• Annual Inspiration Day.
• A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts. 
• Free lunch and snacks.
• Free access to Headspace – a full library of guided meditations, sleep stories, and music.

About us:

Luno makes it simple to buy, store and explore crypto. More than 10 million people have chosen to invest in crypto with Luno using our platform, which is available on Apple, Android and as a desktop experience. We’ve enabled over $52bn of transactions and we securely store over $1bn for our customers around the world.

Our mission is to put the power of crypto in everyone's hands because we believe that giving people access to a robust and fair financial system is a basic human right. We are with customers at every step of their investment journey with clear, jargon-free information and an easy-to-use app experience that helps people get started from as little as $10.

In order to make crypto accessible to everyone, everywhere, we’re on the ground in more than 40 markets across North America, Africa, Asia and Europe. We are registered with all local financial intelligence authorities and proud of our strong AML measures and world-leading compliance teams. All the crypto we store for our customers is regularly verified by independent auditors.  Luno is the trusted guide that will bring crypto to over 1 billion people by 2030.