Platform Engineer
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- Location
- Remote (Worldwide, Lower Saxony)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid Level
About the Role
Banco Plata, a leading digital bank in Latin America, is seeking a Platform Engineer to develop and maintain its Backstage-powered developer portal. This role focuses on improving developer workflows, centralizing service discovery, and driving automation within a collaborative engineering team.
Skills
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Paid annual leave
- Paid sick leave
Perks
- Flexible work
- Relocation support
- Education budget
- Wellness budget
Full job details
DevOps Team:
We are looking for a Platform Engineer to develop, maintain, and enhance our Backstage-powered developer portal. You will work closely with Platform engineering, DevOps, and application teams to improve developer workflows, centralize service discovery, and drive automation. This role is ideal for engineers passionate about developer experience, internal tooling, and open-source ecosystems.
Challenges that await you:
- Creating a useful and intuitive environment that simplifies complex processes and makes integration with infrastructure smooth
- Designing and implementing self-service workflows that balance automation and control
- Ensuring seamless integration of CI/CD pipelines, service catalogs, and observability tools
- Driving adoption of the platform across diverse engineering teams with varying needs
- Keeping up with emerging trends in platform engineering and developer productivity
- Maintaining high availability and performance in a dynamic cloud environment
What makes you a great fit:
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js
- Experience with Golang, Python, or other backend languages
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines
- Proven ability to integrate internal tools with APIs, GraphQL, and webhooks
- Understanding of observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc.)
- Familiarity with OAuth, RBAC, and security best practices
- Passion for developer experience, automation, and open-source contributions
Your bonus skills:
- Familiarity with Backstage or similar internal developer portals
- Knowledge of Temporal or other workflow orchestration tools
Our ways of working:
- Innovative Spirit: A commitment to creativity and groundbreaking solutions
- Honest Feedback: valuing open, transparent communication
- Supportive Team: a strong, collaborative community
- Celebrating Achievements: recognizing our wins together
- High-Tech Environment: a team full of smart and revolutionary people who date to challenge the status quo of incumbent finances
Our benefits:
- Relocation support to Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Serbia, Georgia, Spain with full visa & permit support to the employee and family
- Flexible work from one of our offices or fully remote
- Healthcare Coverage
- Education Budget: Language lessons, professional training and certifications
- Wellness Budget: Mental health and fitness activity reimbursements
- Vacation policy: 20 days of annual leave and paid sick leave