Swan is looking for a Cloud Engineer to join its tech team of 30+ people. The Engineering team is by far the largest at Swan. This team includes Software developers, who build payments and end-customer applications, as well as Infrastructure, DevOps, and Security.
Swan has a diverse team of engineers from all over the place. Co-building is at the heart of the way we work. We believe in challenging each other. Being frank, but empathetic is the best way to get things done! It’s also more fun.

Are you rigorous, pro-active and willing to collaborate with high-level business and technical teams? You want to push the state of the art and want to build with us the heart of the next banking infrastructure ?

Spirit of the role:

• You will build and run highly available, scalable and secure platforms
• You will create some necessary tooling for your tasks
• You will have the opportunity to solve problems in one of the most demanding IT domains.
• You will improve the performance of a system with a rapidly growing load.
• You will define and document best practices and strategies regarding infrastructure

✨ Your mission:

• Develop and implement technical efforts to deploy applications
• Participate in all aspects of the deployment life cycle for AWS solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root cause, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures
• Educate teams on the new devOps tools

Our technical environment

• Cloud provider : AWS
• Container orchestrator: Kubernetes
• Database : Postgresql
• Monitoring : Prometheus / Grafana
• Logging : Mezmo
• Tracing : Jaeger
• CI : GitlabCI
• CD : ArgoCD
• Infrastructure as code : Terraform
• Messaging : Kafka
• App languages : Node.js and JVM-based apps
• Scripting languages : Go, Python, bash

Our product

Swan makes it extremely easy for anyone to embed banking features, whether they’re a dev or an entrepreneur (or both). It’s exciting to build a bank that can be integrated by anyone! We’d love for Swan to become the reflex for European engineers who want to build something with banking and payments.

The banking domain is a fascinating and challenging place to grow your skills. It’s state-of-the-art and covers everything you’ve learned at school: security, consistency, and scalability, but building a “bank” is a lot different from building another type of startup. In banking, you can’t afford to have little bugs (imagine messing up someone’s account statement). That’s why Swan puts security and robustness first and foremost. Join Swan and you’ll be pushed to reach the highest standards of quality and precision.

✨ You’re a great match if:

• Good knowledge of AWS architecture and services
• Experience in CI/CD processes (GitlabCI…)
• Ideally, a good knowledge of Kubernetes and Infrastructure As Code tools (terraform…)
• Ideally, a good knowledge of Kafka, Python and Go
• A good knowledge of security and encryption best practices
• A good culture of technology trends (news, meetups…)
• You enjoy working in a challenging fast-paced and team-oriented environment
• Ability to communicate with clarity, humility, and precision
• Our ideal teammate: Sociable. Skilled. Empathetic. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door
• Excellent working abilities in English

It’s okay if you don’t tick all the boxes — don’t let imposture syndrome prevent you from applying! 🙌

About Swan

✨ Perks of being a Swanee:

• ESOP packages available 😊
• Flexible remote policy, ask us about it!
• The best health insurance: Alan 🦭
• Swan encourages you to have fun staying fit, thanks to partnerships with Classpass & Gymlib.
• We respect your lunch break. Mid-day free-time is sacred and our French office even provides a Swile card to cover your meal on work days. 🥪
• Twice a year we go somewhere gorgeous (a chateau, a mountain) where we reconnect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax.
• This isn’t a perk, it should be the rule, but diversity and inclusion are important at Swan. We’re working hard to get better every day.

✨ Our values:

Be human: Be straightforward, transparent, and sincerely care. It’s all about integrity and doing the right thing.

Ambition: We’re in this for the long game. We want to transform the entire market, and be the engine for Europe’s next tech champions!

Collaboration: We believe in the power of collective intelligence. We love to challenge others’ ideas and be challenged in return. May the best ideas win.

“Move fast, don’t break things”: If we must choose between security and going fast, we choose security. We are in banking, after all.

Make everything simple: Simplicity.

• A 30-min video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
• An interview with Sonia and Charles, our Lead Infra
• An interview with Mathieu, our CTO