Platform Engineer

About Lumi

Lumi is a prominent fintech lender dedicated to empowering Australian small businesses by providing fast, flexible financing tailored to their unique needs. Since 2018, Lumi has funded over $1.5 billion across 15,000+ businesses, gaining a reputation for speed, exceptional service, and customized solutions.

Working Environment

At Lumi, we cultivate an inclusive culture where employees can grow and make meaningful customer impacts. We value passion, curiosity, and problem-solving skills. Our accolades include the 2025 Finnies Outstanding FinTech Leader, top 3 placement in the 2024 Australian Financial Review BOSS Best Places to Work in Banking and Financial Services, 2023 FinTech Australia Diversity Award, 2022 Empowering Innovation Affie Award, and ranking #36 in Deloitte's 2022 Technology Fast 50 Australia.

We champion respect and equal opportunity, inviting applicants to request adjustments for fair recruitment.

Our Values

• Collaboration: No egos, ownership mindset, openness, and unity.
• Customer Focus: Presence, understanding, anticipation, and solution-driven actions.
• Lean Thinking: Simplify, resourcefulness, problem foresight.
• Continuous Learning: Curiosity, experimentation, embracing failure, and iterative improvement.

Role Overview

The Platform Engineer will merge software development and infrastructure operations to maintain the platform's reliability, scalability, and performance. This technical role emphasizes building infrastructure, enhancing CI/CD workflows, and implementing comprehensive monitoring for rapid deployments.

The engineer will optimize database performance and support the event-driven architecture, facilitating secure, efficient software delivery for engineering teams.

Excitingly, the role includes participating in the foundational stages of constructing MLOps and autonomous agent infrastructures, offering a unique chance to develop and scale AI-focused production environments.

Candidate Profile

• Proficient with AWS cloud services, containerization using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes or equivalent.
• Experienced in designing and managing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure monitoring systems.
• Skilled in database performance tuning and monitoring, especially MongoDB and PostgreSQL cluster management, query optimization, and enhancements.
• Motivated to learn MLOps methodologies and contribute to creating production-grade AI infrastructure.

Perks & Benefits

• Wellness support including free counselling, wellness allowance, wellness room, seasonal activities, and flu vaccinations.
• Work-life balance offerings like home office allowance, purchased leave options, parental leave and flexibility, special leave for life challenges, and breastfeeding spaces.
• Social engagement with monthly lunches, celebrations, stocked kitchen, beer & kombucha on tap, board games, and rooftop barbecues.
• Recognition through competitive salary, referral bonuses, and shout-outs.
• Community involvement with paid volunteer leave and organized company volunteer days.
• Career development opportunities including rapid advancement, higher education sponsorship, and participation in hackathons.