DevOps Engineer

About lemon.markets 🍋

We enable anyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses. By empowering FinTechs, banks, and wealth managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers.

lemon.markets is a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform: simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure abstracts brokerage complexity with a well-documented API, a self-service customer operations portal, and a clear regulatory framework, so partners can launch customer-centric, compliant products in weeks, not months.

As part of the dwpbank group, we’re adding a layer of resources and expertise to benefit from, while continuing to operate as an independent fintech with our own team, product, and start-up identity under the dwpbank umbrella.

Your Mission:

As a member of our cross-functional team of DevOps, DevSecOps and Workplace Technology engineers, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction and evolution of our infrastructure. You’ll build on a stable foundation that includes EKS on AWS, IaC principles, and robust deployment pipelines. Together, we’ll drive architectural enhancements, ensure compliance with regulatory standards, and support the growing demands of our business.

Your work will significantly impact both our internal engineering teams and the external partners who depend on secure, reliable infrastructure. Leveraging your expertise, you’ll help us continue to deliver scalable and compliant solutions that empower our partners to innovate and bring investment opportunities to millions across Europe.

About you:

• You have hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu and are passionate about leveraging these to build reliable, scalable systems.

• You have experience in AWS networking, core services (e.g., RDS, S3), and IAM security best practices.

• You are skilled in managing Kubernetes (we use EKS) and are excited to maintain and evolve enterprise-scale platforms with best practices for security, privacy, monitoring, and CI/CD.

• You have experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry and are comfortable working with tools like DataDog to implement metrics, tracing, and robust monitoring solutions.

• You bring a solid understanding of cloud-native technologies, including AWS services like RDS and RedShift, and know how to integrate them into highly performant and secure infrastructure.

• You are familiar with modern CI/CD pipelines and workflow automation tools, including ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, and GitHub Actions, and you use them to streamline operations and improve developer productivity.

• You have a proven ability to design, build, and maintain scalable platforms while working as part of a cross-functional team.

You will be successful in this role if:

• You can dive into an existing codebase and quickly familiarize yourself, identifying areas to improve and contribute effectively.

• You see yourself as a product engineer. That means you are excited by solving customer problems and strive to become an expert in the domain area you are working in.

• You are a team player. Working together as a team, sharing knowledge, and providing mentorship comes naturally to you. Long term, you may even see yourself stepping into a team lead role.

• You understand what working in a startup or a similar lean organization is like. You are comfortable working with a small team, moving quickly, and focusing on what truly matters.

• You are ready and willing to take ownership of problems and act on them decisively with little supervision. You always aim for high-quality outcomes through focus, determination, and attention to detail.

• You enjoy learning new technologies and thrive on solving challenges with tools and methods beyond those you already know.

We're looking for people with passion, desire to learn and that are team players. You're encouraged to apply, even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns.

How we take care of you:

• 🚀 Compensation package: We offer you a competitive salary, based on your experience and the value-add you bring to lemon.markets.

• 🕑 Flexible working hours: We trust people to choose when they work best and avoid a rigid 9 to 5 mindset. You decide on the rhythm that helps you do your best work, with only shared core hours from 12:00 to 16:00 to support collaboration.

• 🏢 Hybrid work setup: You can work from anywhere in Germany within a hybrid model. At the same time, in-person collaboration is a key part of our culture. That being said, individual contributer lemoneers work 4 days or more per month on-site in our Berlin office, spending quality time together with the team at events, onsites/offsites or over team dinners.

• 📈 Grow with us: We take your personal development seriously! You’ll get regular mentorship and stretch opportunities, plus a clear career development framework with frequent feedback conversations so you always know where you stand, and what to do to level up.

• 🌱 People & culture: You’ll feel our culture in the small things, like polaroids from our lemoneers’ first day, Friday food market strolls at Maybachufer, and our monthly new-joiner breakfast. But also in the bigger things: celebrating the onboarding of new partners, growing our teams, and owning a strong discussion culture.

• 💛 Perks & benefits: Wechoose benefits that add actual value. We sponsor a Deutschlandticket for employees on unlimited contracts, plus 50% off on Beatvest - our partner for financial education and investing.

• 🏝 Workation: Get out of here! At lemon.markets you can work remotely from anywhere in the EU for up to 10 consecutive days at a time, and up to 60 days per year in total.

As an equal opportunity employer, lemon.markets is committed to building an inclusive workplace. The company welcomes people from all different backgrounds, including age, citizenship, ethnic and racial origins, gender identities, individuals with disabilities, marital status, religions and ideologies, and sexual orientations to apply.

If you feel this role could be a great match for you even if you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you, please apply.

You have any questions? Feel free to contact us via [email protected]