--- title: 'Lead Platform Engineer - Sweden at Allica Bank' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/lead-platform-engineer-sweden-allica-bank-sweden-5kec8x3s59ve' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-19' --- # Lead Platform Engineer - Sweden at Allica Bank - **Company:** Allica Bank - **Location:** Sweden - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-09 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/allica-bank/c380b3b3-61e6-4a47-a584-403e66cec566 ## Job description ## About Allica Bank Allica is the UK’s fastest growing company - and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech. Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers. Be the first. Make it work for Sweden. It's not every day you get the chance to help build a new bank. Allica Bank is expanding into Sweden, and we're looking for someone to take our proven UK tech stack and shape it into the secure, compliant platform that Allica Bank Sweden will run on. Allica is a UK bank that backs established SMEs, the businesses that form the backbone of local communities and have too often been overlooked by traditional banks and fintechs. In the UK, Allica has quickly become one of the fastest-growing fintech firms. Now we're bringing that model and ambition to Sweden, building on the technology that already powers Allica in the UK. ## Role Description As our founding Lead Platform Engineer in Sweden, you'll set the technical foundation for Allica Bank Sweden's cloud self-service platform and be personally accountable for it. You'll report directly to the CTO and work closely with our UK Platform Engineering Team on shared standards and tooling. The UK stack gives us a strong starting point, but it won't transfer seamlessly. Much will need to be adapted and developed along the way, and you'll be the one deciding where to align with the UK and where to deliberately diverge. This is a hands-on role. You'll build alongside the team, make consequential technical calls independently from day one, and mentor platform engineers as the function grows. Your customers are internal: product and data engineering teams choose whether to use what you build, so adoption is what we measure. We're in start-up mode in Sweden, so expect a fast-moving environment with a lot of ownership. Principal Accountabilities - Own Allica Sweden's instance of the Allica platform, adapting the UK stack for Sweden: landing zones, subscriptions, network topology, container runtime and resilience patterns. - Build the reusable core: Terraform modules, deployment templates and platform services that let product teams self-serve production-grade infrastructure. - Deliver all infrastructure through Terraform and secure CI/CD, so every change is automated, repeatable and reversible. - Embed security, governance and compliance into the platform, with auditable evidence rather than just intent. - Own reliability and run cost, lead the response to complex incidents, and drive out repeat causes rather than repeat fixes. - Lead and mentor platform engineers while staying personally hands-on in architecture and the hardest technical problems. Personal Attributes & Experience - A strong track record of architecting and running production cloud environments at scale, with production accountability for systems that matter. - Extensive cloud experience. We work with Azure as our primary cloud, with GCP as our secondary cloud. - Fluency in landing zone and subscription design, private networking, containerized compute, API management and resilience patterns. - Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform, identity and observability at scale. - A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. - Fluent English. - A pragmatic mindset: you prefer the boring, well-understood solution, you design for adoption rather than mandate, and you treat regulation as a design input. You're comfortable with ambiguity and don't get stuck searching for the perfect solution. Nice to have: Experience in regulated industries, Kubernetes and serverless, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and FinOps and operational resilience. Working at Allica Bank At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers. Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind: - Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities - Options for flexible working - Regular social activities - Pension contributions - Discretionary bonus scheme - Private health cover - Life assurance - Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave Don’t tick every box? Don’t worry if you don’t have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. If you think you’ll be a good fit, we’d still love to hear from you! Flexible working We know the ‘9-to-5’ isn’t right for everyone. That’s why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and, if we can, we will do our best to accommodate. Diversity We’re a diverse bunch here at Allica, with all kinds of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. Our openness and differences make us stronger, and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with them as they like. ## About Allica Bank ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Allica Bank is a British challenger bank and fintech that provides current accounts, savings, and lending products exclusively to established small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in the UK. - **Entity Type**: Private (Unicorn status achieved February 2026) - **Headquarters**: London and Milton Keynes, UK (with additional hubs in Manchester and India) - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Not publicly available (the bank was founded by a team; current CEO is Richard Davies, appointed July 2020) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Services, Fintech, Business Banking (SME Banking) - **Target customers**: B2B — Established UK businesses with 5–250 employees - **Mission or purpose statement**: "To give established businesses the banking they deserve" — combining fintech knowledge with start-up spirit to transform the business banking experience. ## Products & Services - **Business Rewards Current Account**: A full-featured business current account with unlimited fee-free UK transfers, team-level access, two-person authorisation, virtual cards (up to 20 per employee), expense management, and integrations with accounting software (Sage, Xero, QuickBooks, FreeAgent). Earns up to 1.5% cashback on card spend and integrated savings pots paying up to 4.08% AER interest. - **Business Borrowing**: Includes business overdrafts and lending products tailored for established SMEs. - **Savings Accounts**: Instant access savings accounts with competitive interest rates. - **Invoice Finance & Embedded Payments** (via acquisition of Kriya, October 2025): A new offering aiming to achieve £1 billion of invoice finance lending by 2028. - **Specialist Bridging Loans** (via acquisition of Tuscan Capital, August 2024): Short-term property-backed lending. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1.2 billion (Unicorn status, February 2026) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of £371.3 million (2025); Net Income of £36.9 million (2025); Total lending over £3.7 billion; Over 30,000 business customers (February 2026) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Ventura Capital, GLG, Sona AM, TCV, Blue Owl, Atalaya Capital Management, Warwick Capital Partners - **Growth Signals**: - Named the UK's fastest-growing private company in The Sunday Times 100 (June 2024) - Named the UK's fastest-growing fintech ever in Deloitte's 2023 UK Tech Fast 50 - Listed as the second fastest growing company in Europe in the FT1000 (March 2025) - Over 700 employees (growing to 799 in 2025) - Achieved first full-year profit in 2023 - Acquired Kriya (invoice finance) and Tuscan Capital (bridging loans) to expand product suite ## Competitive Advantages - **Dedicated Relationship Management**: Every customer gets a UK-based relationship manager on speed dial — a return to "real relationship banking" that larger banks have moved away from. - **Proprietary Technology**: Tech teams design, test, and build everything in-house specifically for the needs of established businesses, not consumers or micro-businesses. - **No Monthly Fees**: Unlike traditional banks, Allica rewards customers with cashback and interest instead of charging monthly account fees. - **FSCS Protection**: Customer deposits are protected up to £120,000 by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. - **Speed of Execution**: Company culture emphasises "Need for Speed" — they believe executing and improving faster creates a massive competitive advantage. ## Strategic Focus - **Product Expansion**: Growing beyond core banking into invoice finance, embedded payments, and specialist lending through acquisitions. - **Scaling Customer Base**: Targeting continued rapid growth from 30,000+ business customers, with a specific goal of £1 billion in invoice finance lending by 2028. - **Talent & Culture**: Building a team that blends "fintech knowledge with start-up spirit" while maintaining a focus on transparency and delivery over hierarchy. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: "Allicans" are described as passionate about the collective mission, with a culture of top talent, big thinkers, and a truly diverse workforce. Values include "Own it," "Need for Speed," "Straight Bat," and "Lead by Example." - **Employee Satisfaction**: 92% of employees said they enjoy working together (latest survey); 86% say they enjoy working there. - **Flexible Working**: Flexible working arrangements are offered, plus enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave. - **Benefits**: Competitive financial and wellbeing benefits, plus a packed staff social calendar. - **Growth Opportunity**: Described as "the UK's fastest-growing fintech ever" — employees get to help build the future of business banking and grow their own careers in a fast-paced, high-impact environment. - **Engineering Culture**: Tech teams design, test, and build everything in-house with a focus on transparency and data-driven decision making. Worth is measured by delivery of outcomes, not job titles or headcount. ## Sources 1. [allica.bank](https://www.allica.bank/about-us) 2. [allica.bank](https://www.allica.bank/) 3. [allica.bank](https://www.allica.bank/careers) 4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/allica-bank) 5. 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