Mettle

Platform Engineer (Stateful Platform)

Company
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
6/27/2025
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Description
Power up what you do

This role is in Mettle

Mettle is for sole traders and limited companies with up to two owners (only one owner can access the account).

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Job Description

Join us as a Platform Engineer

  • At NatWest Boxed, we're looking to expand our partnerships and become the go-to platform to start, run and grow a business
  • You’ll help us achieve this by making sure our platforms are secure, scalable and available, collaborating across teams to share and re-utilise good practice and technology stacks
  • Get ready to explore your capability and advance your career in this fast paced and high profile role


What you'll do

As our Platform Engineer, you'll be joining our team to manage and deliver Kafka, databases and other stateful workloads to engineers.

Day to day, you'll be:

  • Making changes to the platform, adding new features and ensuring defects are resolved in a timely manner
  • Creating solutions that enhance the developer experience and introducing new features through a self-service platform rooted in Kubernetes
  • Designing and implementing solutions to increase the stability, resilience and security of our stateful platform
  • Developing clean, elegant, and reusable code that is well tested and easy to maintain and extend


The skills you'll need

To thrive as a Platform Engineer at NatWest Boxed, you'll need to be able to design and develop our internal stateful developer platform.

You’ll also need:

  • Operational experience with distributed systems
  • Experience developing with relational databases (Postgres/MySQL)
  • Experience delivering cloud infrastructure with Terraform
  • Good knowledge of Go
  • Experience managing stateful workloads ideally in Kubernetes
  • Knowledge and experience using a commercial cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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