Senior Platform Engineer

at  Lyka

WHO ARE WE?

Lyka is an Australian founded pet wellness company that’s shaking up an outdated industry and paving the way for happier, healthier pets. Despite medical advancements, animal lifespans are on the decline. Today, the average pet only reaches 37% of their full potential lifespan and statistics have shown us that many suffer from dental disease, cancer, and obesity. Simply put, the status quo is not enough.
As humans, we’ve experienced firsthand the positive impact fresh wholefoods can have on our health and wellbeing, and we believe our furry friends deserve the same. We’re on a mission to do just that, starting with nutritionally balanced, wholefood meals delivered direct to doors around Australia. As the world’s most sustainable pet wellness company, we’re putting pets and our planet first - one bowl at a time.
Today, we are proud to share we’ve served 40 million meals to puppers and their parents across Australia, and this is just the beginning. Our vision is to create multiple nutritional products, adding disease prevention meals and supplements, and expand into new markets.
Currently, we have a team of 200+ pet-obsessed people and we’re continuing to grow (yes, looking at you!). These carefully selected people are dedicated to building the next generation of technology and products to help empower pet parents to take control over their pet’s wellbeing.
To date, we have raised over $60M in funding from venture capital investors and pet industry insiders, who believe in our mission and ability to drive change in a stagnant industry, providing nutrition that nourishes puppers from the inside out.
Are you ready to shake things up and give pets the life they deserve? Come join our pack!

REQUIREMENTS

• Significant experience deploying services on AWS (including ECS, Fargate, EC2, ALB, Auto Scaling, RDS, Lambda, IAM)
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code (ideally CDK & CloudFormation)
• Experience building and optimising CI/CD delivery pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar
• Development experience using Node.js (TypeScript)
• Familiarity with observability in a microservices environment using tools such as CloudWatch & Honeycomb
• Solid networking & network security skills (VPC, security groups, TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS)
• The ability to mentor and convey DevOps best practices to each of our engineering squads to enable them to self-serve our technology stack
• Strong collaboration skills - enabling you to use your talent and experience to increase the knowledge, capabilities and output of each of the squads in our engineering team
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Lyka is currently seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our internal Platform team and help support our squads in their work to deliver Lyka’s industry-leading pet food to our puppers. You will have a minimum of five years of commercial experience, preferably within other start-ups or a similar fast-paced engineering environment.
As a key member of your squad, you will ensure the timely execution of its objectives as we transition to a microservices architecture and enhance our technical skills across the entire engineering team. You will contribute to the core components of a new project, helping to achieve the technical vision of a brand new e-commerce platform designed to introduce the Lyka brand to businesses throughout Australia.