Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer at Bridgit

Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (hybrid)

About Bridgit: Bridgit is a leading non‑bank lender transforming the way Australians access property equity. Purpose‑built to make property transactions faster and easier, we pioneered the Buy Now, Sell Later solution – empowering homeowners to unlock their property equity and move on their terms. With a simple digital application, fast approvals and flexible loan options, we’re making property finance seamless and stress‑free. Bridgit has garnered awards such as Best Growth Story at the 2025 Fintech Awards and was a finalist for Excellence in Lending (Business & Consumer) at the 2025 Finnies.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and scale a self‑service internal platform that streamlines development and deployment for engineering teams.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling to reduce friction and accelerate delivery.
• Define and maintain infrastructure standards through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Champion observability and reliability, ensuring systems are well‑instrumented and easy to operate.
• Enhance and optimise Kubernetes orchestration and AWS‑based infrastructure to support scalable, secure applications.
• Collaborate closely with product and platform engineers to create a world‑class developer experience.
• Promote best practices across automation, infrastructure design and DevOps culture.

What you’ll bring

• Strong experience with AWS and cloud‑native architecture.
• Proficiency with IaC tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Proven experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD).
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• A passion for improving developer experience and creating reliable, scalable systems.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, solution‑oriented mindset.

Benefits & Culture

• Competitive remuneration and slick offices.
• Extra leave – birthday leave plus an additional day of paid leave for life events or mental‑health reset.
• Two weeks of remote work from any location per year.
• Extensive learning and development opportunities.
• Vibrant social events throughout the year.

If you’re excited about reshaping the lending industry and want to be part of a company that values authenticity and innovation, we’d love to chat. Apply now and let’s build the future of finance together!

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