Contract Platform Engineer

Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay.

We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.

As a Platform Software Engineer at YLD, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We’re looking for someone curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You should be skilled in problem-solving and experienced in designing scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’re also an effective communicator and a strong team player. Together with your team, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced engineering environment, delivering outstanding results and exciting projects. 

• Owning and evolving our AWS estate, which is the primary platform for our infrastructure

• Managing and improving key platform services, including AWS infrastructure, GitHub estate, New Relic estate

• Supporting applications primarily built with Node.js and TypeScript

• Deploying and managing infrastructure using Terraform

• Define and validate a clear observability strategy and technical direction

• Improve metrics collection, analysis, and system visibility

• Improve our ability to investigate and debug distributed system issues

• Enhance monitoring using New Relic and AWS CloudWatch

You’ll have the following skills and experience:

• Strong, hands-on AWS experience (essential)
• Experience with infrastructure automation (Terraform strongly preferred)

• Solid understanding of observability, monitoring, and distributed systems

• Familiarity with New Relic, CloudWatch, or similar tooling

• Azure experience is a plus

You should apply if you are:

• Self-motivated, proactive, and continually looking for ways to improve and develop yourself;
• A good communicator, both in writing and verbally. You’ll be able to explain technical ideas and concepts in business-friendly language;
• Detail-oriented;
• Ability to learn through observation in a low-documentation environment;
• High resilience and adaptability are required skills
• Used to working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment;
• Analytical and problem-solving oriented;
• A genuine believer in diversity and fairness.

What you’ll get in return:

• The chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fast-moving business

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (1h30)
• Meet our Client Partner and Engineering Operations Manager (30 mins)

We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for all employees.