This is a remote position.
CreatePay is building its Payment Facilitator (PayFac)/Acquiring platform on AWS and is building a dedicated platform engineering capability from the ground up. We are looking for a hands-on Platform Engineer to build and own the infrastructure the platform runs on, day to day. This is the first dedicated platform hire at CreatePay — the role is deliberately pitched for someone looking to build their own path into platform/infrastructure engineering, rather than an established platform lead looking to manage an existing team or programme.
You will take practical, day-to-day ownership of CreatePay's cloud infrastructure: provisioning and hardening AWS environments, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, keeping the serverless and data estate — API Gateway, Lambda, Aurora PostgreSQL — reliable, observable, and cost-efficient, and acting as first responder when something breaks. You will work closely with Engineering, Data Engineering, the Information Security Officer, and outsourced delivery partners to make sure the platform is resilient by design, not patched together after the fact.
This is a genuine opportunity to define a discipline — to own the infrastructure behind a real, regulated, in-production payments environment, set the practices and standards it runs on, and grow the role, and yourself, as CreatePay scales.
- £50,000 – £70,000 base salary, depending on experience
Equity / options — a stake in the business
Significant scope to grow the role and take on broader platform/infrastructure leadership as CreatePay scales
Hybrid working (likely 1 day a week in the office in Milton Keynes)
Please note, this position is only suitable for candidates who currently live in and are eligible to work in the UK. CreatePay is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from candidates with non-traditional career paths where the experience is demonstrably there.
