Platform Engineer

The StratsLab Difference: Why You Should Read This

We were founded in 2015 by alumni of the Warsaw University MIM Faculty, who spent years sharpening their skills at top-tier investment banks and hedge funds in London. We brought that exclusive, high-impact culture back to Warsaw.

• Developer-Driven: You will be surrounded by top-notch Developers who genuinely love to code. We prioritize writing new code over maintaining legacy systems.

• Unique Domain: You'll gain unique, marketable skills working directly in the highly specialized area of commodities trade risk assessment. This isn't generic IT - it's highly challenging and intellectually rewarding.

• Real Impact: You will have independent, responsible tasks and will have a chance to implement your ideas, seeing the immediate effects of your work on complex financial systems.

Our Roots & Your Fast Track
We are proud of our origins. Since many of us are alumni of UW (JSIM, CS, Math, Physics),  Matex at Staszic and finalists of the Informatics or Mathematics Olympics, we know what it takes to get there. If you share this background, just apply and we guarantee you an intro call. We speak the same language, so let’s skip the formalities.

While we value our roots, we value exceptional engineering even more. If you are a high-calibre developer from a different path, your skills are the only credential that matters. Apply, and let your code do the talking.

Your future role

• You will build the cloud infrastructure and internal tooling that powers our multi-cloud environment. This involves designing and operating a platform that runs reliably across AWS and Azure. You will focus on infrastructure automation, configuration management, and deployment pipelines at scale.
• You will build apps that help portfolio managers and traders manage financial risk. This involves visualizing large amounts of data and building interfaces to interact with them (book trades, run risk reports, define monte carlo scenarios).
• You will primarily use Python as we have a framework that under the hood creates a React app from it that runs the client side in the browser and gets you the data binding for free. Having said that, you will be exposed to React from time to time when something needs to be extended or improved.

• You should enjoy building infrastructure as code using Python, Terraform or Puppet.
• You should enjoy working with AWS and Azure to solve complex scaling problems.
• You should have a solid understanding of Linux systems, networking and TLS.
• Having a Computer Science, Maths or Physics degree helps as there are lots of geeky conversations over the coffee. 

We believe that high-calibre work deserves exceptional support:

• Compensation: Base salary plus a bonus twice a year. Your role and salary are based on your skills and how fast you learn, not just your old job title.
• Professional Growth: You will work closely with experts and gain exposure to top financial institutions as a natural part of your day. Being in this team means you share knowledge with exceptional programmers and grow your expertise through your daily interactions.
• Office: Powiśle, Warsaw.
• Flexible working hours.
• International business trips for volunteers.

If all goes well, we are going to spend a lot of time together. Our process aims to ensure both you and us know what we are getting into:

• Informal Introduction: You will start with a casual chat with our Founders to see if we are a good fit for each other.
• Technical Assessment: You will do a technical task so we can see how you code and solve problems.
• Team Engagement: You will meet the team and talk about the role directly with the people you would be working with.