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From Stablecoin payment infrastructure to fiat settlement rails, wallet services, and custom local Stablecoin issuance, Yellow Card provides the complete infrastructure businesses need to manage Stablecoins, payments, and operations across 50 emerging markets.\nYellow Card operates with a substantial global team spanning 24 countries. This workforce is characterized by its linguistic diversity, with collective speaking of over 25 languages, underscoring the company’s extensive international reach.\nAs the Platform Tech Lead, you will serve as the technical anchor for the Platform Engineering team. You will lead critical production implementations and take full ownership of the technical roadmap to ensure our services maintain 99.99% availability for the institutional partners and global financial networks that rely on us.\nSuccess in this role requires a critical ability to adapt and learn; you will stay ahead of the curve as we integrate new technologies and evolve our platform to meet the high-stakes demands of a rapidly expanding global B2B landscape.\nWhat You’ll Do\nTechnical Leadership: Act as the final technical reviewer for complex setups, including global traffic routing and EKS scaling.Act as the final technical reviewer for complex implementations, such as networking setups (e.g., VPNs, certificate rotation for mTLS).\nArchitectural Excellence: Architect robust solutions to ensure strict adherence to our 99.99% System Uptime Executive OKR.\nIncident Management: Identify underlying root causes for critical production incidents and provide permanent fixes, ensuring severity incidents remain at 0-1 per month.\nPerformance & Scaling: Lead service capacity planning, demand forecasting, and system tuning to ensure scalability is designed into our products from the start.\nMonitoring & Reliability: Establish end-to-end monitoring and alerting on all critical systems to ensure SLAs are met, and proactive notifications are in place.\nStakeholder Alignment: Establish trust with senior leaders by aligning technical priorities with business goals and providing accurate status updates.\nSecurity & Compliance: Partner with SecOps to ensure our global infrastructure meets rigorous security standards and maintains a minimal vulnerability window.\nWhat You Bring\nExperience: 7+ years of hands-on technical experience with large-scale production environments and infrastructure.\nLeadership: 2+ years of experience leading site reliability engineers or software developers building customer-facing applications.\nCloud Expertise: In-depth knowledge of AWS architecture (Serverless, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EKS, and S3).\nModern Tooling: Strong grasp of Kubernetes, microservices, and CI/CD principles (GitHub Actions).\nTechnical Adaptability: You possess a proven ability to learn and master new technologies on the fly, recognizing that the tools we use today (like AI-driven infrastructure and emerging FinTech protocols) will evolve tomorrow.\nGrowth Mindset: You don't just manage existing systems; you proactively identify opportunities to upskill the team and integrate cutting-edge solutions that improve our B2B performance.\nAgile Evolution: You thrive in an environment where pivoting is a strength, adapting your technical strategy as we scale our institutional partnerships and global network footprint.\nOperational Excellence: Solid understanding of performance monitoring tools and Linux operating systems.\nKubernetes Expertise: Proven, deep experience managing and securing Kubernetes (EKS) at scale is a significant advantage.\nAdvanced Networking: Strong grasp of complex networking concepts required for global multi-region deployments and secure B2B integrations.\nReady to Join Us?\nAre you up for the challenge? 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