About Us
- NALA is building Payments for the Next Billion.
- Since 2022, grown business 120x, team from 9 to 150+, raised $50M+ from top-tier investors.
- Named to Forbes Fintech 50 in 2025 & 2026.
- Products: NALA (consumer app for cross-border payments) and Rafiki (B2B payments infrastructure).
- Team includes alumni from Wise, Stripe, Monzo, Revolut, and CashApp.
Your Mission
- Own NALA's cloud foundation end-to-end.
- Architect the shared platform layer that unlocks velocity across B2B and B2C products.
- Be the bus-factor fix for infrastructure.
- Set technical direction for how engineering thinks about systems.
Your Responsibilities in this Role
- Build and improve cloud infrastructure powering NALA and Rafiki, ensuring high availability, scalability and security.
- Improve developer experience through automation, self-serve tooling and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Own and evolve observability, incident response and reliability practices.
- Partner closely with product and engineering teams to support new services, migrations and platform improvements.
- Strengthen security posture by implementing best practices across networking, access controls, secrets management and production environments.
- Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
Must-have requirements
- Production AWS experience at scale, with hands-on Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Strong experience managing containerised workloads using ECS and Docker in production environments.
- Strong experience operating and scaling infrastructure components such as Kafka, Redis and managed relational databases like RDS.
- Strong understanding of networking, security, observability and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Experience improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation in fast-moving engineering teams.
- Comfortable debugging production issues and participating in incident response in high-availability environments.
- Clear communication skills and ability to work closely with software engineers across multiple teams.
Nice to have requirements
- Experience working in fintech, payments or other regulated environments.
- Experience building internal developer platforms or self-serve infrastructure tooling.
- Experience supporting SOC2, ISO27001 or similar compliance initiatives.
- Background in SRE or platform engineering at scale (100+ engineers, 1000+ services).
- Experience designing connective layers or shared infrastructure in multi-product orgs.
Benefits
- 35 Days Off (27 days + 8 Bank Holidays if UK-based).
- Birthday Leave.
- Enhanced Parental Leave: 16 weeks full pay for primary caregiver, 4 weeks full pay for secondary caregiver (after probation).
- Global Workspace: access to WeWork locations worldwide.
- Learning Budget: $1000 annually for learning and development.