Are you ready to shape the financial future of a rapidly growing fintech that’s transforming lives across Southeast Asia and beyond?
We’re not your typical company — we’re a rocketship! At FINN, established in 2022 by experienced serial founders, we’re on a mission to transform financial well-being for underbanked employees. Our product provides early wage access, financial education, budgeting tools, part-time job opportunities, and micro-insurances. We’ve hit product-market fit and are scaling aggressively across multiple markets.
The Role
We need a true Platform Lead who stays deep in infrastructure but also guides a small, growing Platform team.
This is a heavily hands-on role (70–80% technical) with people leadership (20–30% — 1:1s, code-review ownership, tech direction, mentoring, team velocity). If you love architecting production-grade cloud infrastructure yourself and helping engineers around you level up, this is for you.
You’ll own the infrastructure that powers a high-growth fintech with high-throughput production systems, serving hundreds of thousands of users across Southeast Asia and Africa. We’re in the middle of a major infrastructure maturity push: closing IaC gaps, hardening CI/CD, improving observability, and preparing our platform for rapid expansion across multiple markets.
This isn’t a role where you manage dashboards or sit in meetings all day. You’ll architect, build, and operate critical cloud infrastructure — while setting the technical direction for the Platform squad and growing the team. Future growth into Head of Platform / Infrastructure is realistic for the right person.
What You’ll Do
Technical (70–80%)
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Own and operate cloud infrastructure — compute, networking, identity, and security controls — using Infrastructure-as-Code
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Manage container orchestration workloads, including cluster upgrades, deployment management, and autoscaling
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Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines — automated testing, deployment automation, and quality gates
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Drive observability — implement and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing across all services
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Harden security posture — cloud security posture management, automated scanning in CI, access policies, network security, and contributing toward industry security certifications
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Manage multi-cloud infrastructure — we run workloads across multiple cloud providers
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Operate messaging infrastructure — event-driven architectures, including retry strategies and dead-letter queue management
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Standardize market launches — build repeatable infrastructure provisioning so new markets can go live in days, not weeks
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Participate in on-call rotation — respond to production incidents and drive root-cause analysis and prevention
Leadership (20–30%)
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Set technical direction for the Platform squad — define the infrastructure roadmap, make build-vs-buy decisions, and establish engineering standards
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Run weekly 1:1s with platform engineers — coach, unblock, and help them grow
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Own code review across the platform domain — ensure quality, share knowledge, and maintain consistency
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Keep platform velocity high — prioritize work, remove blockers, and ensure the team ships reliably
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Mentor and develop the team — create an environment where engineers do their best work
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Support the wider engineering team — be the go-to person for infrastructure questions, unblock developers, and create self-service tooling
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Collaborate with product and engineering leadership — translate business needs into infrastructure strategy
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Contribute to hiring — help interview and assess platform engineering candidates as the team grows
Must-Have Experience
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7+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles
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Team leadership experience — formally or informally leading a small infrastructure/platform team (mentoring, 1:1s, technical direction)
Linux systems administration — comfortable debugging at the OS level
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Monitoring and observability — setting up alerting, dashboards, log aggregation, and incident response
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Security mindset — experience with access control best practices, network security, secrets management
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Strong communication — able to explain infrastructure decisions to non-infra engineers, present technical strategies to leadership, and mentor effectively
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Reliable internet and hardware, able to work ≥35h/week with decent overlap with UTC+8 (Singapore time)
Nice-to-Have
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Multi-cloud experience (GCP, Firebase, or similar alongside AWS)
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GitOps deployment experience (e.g. ArgoCD or similar)
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Event streaming operations and tuning (e.g. Kafka)
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Compliance frameworks — ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar
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Cost optimization — experience reducing cloud spend without sacrificing reliability
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Pen testing coordination or security audit experience
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Experience at a fintech or financial services company
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Experience with multi-region or multi-market infrastructure
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Previous experience growing a platform/infrastructure team (hiring, onboarding, defining team processes)
What We Use Today
Here’s what we work with today — familiarity is a bonus, not a requirement: