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title: 'Senior DevOps Engineer at Tribe Payments'
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# Senior DevOps Engineer at Tribe Payments

- **Company:** Tribe Payments
- **Location:** Kaunas, Lithuania
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-11-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/tribe-payments/3e7a58be-5088-4606-952e-795710451ed6

## Job description

Tribe, a brand-new payments processor, is looking to continue its rapid expansion in the payments market. Tribe is a group of people that have come together with the singular purpose of making the world of payments simple and accessible. Join our ever-growing Tribe Payments team as a DevOps Engineer and help us change the way this market perceives payments.

What You Would Do:

- Own and improve our apps running on Kubernetes platform:

Build and maintain Helm charts for our services

Standardize deployment patterns, configuration, and release strategies

Ensure reliability, scalability, and security of workloads running on k8s

- Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines in GitLab:

Design flexible pipelines for build, test, security scanning, and deploymentIntroduce best practices (versioning, feature flags, rollbacks, approvals, etc.)

Continuously improve speed, reliability, and developer experience

- Set up and improve observability:

Use Elasticsearch , Prometheus (and related tooling) to create useful dashboards & alerts

Help teams understand logs, metrics, and traces — turn data into decisions

Build early-warning detection frameworks and validation/simulation practices to surface failure modes before production

- Research & experiment:

Investigate new tools, patterns, and AWS services; compare alternatives

POC and validate ideas before rolling them out to production

Bring proposals to the team, explain trade-offs and lead implementation

Apply new learning specifically to solve harder reliability/scalability/automation problems and show progress through delivered outcomes.

- Document and share knowledge:

Write clear runbooks, architecture/infra documentation, and “how-to” guides

Make sure others can understand, reproduce, and maintain what you build

Prevent long-term system “decay” by simplifying complex setups and institutionalizing sustainable best practices.

- Collaborate across teams:

Work closely with developers, security, product and operations

Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and prevention work

Align infrastructure decisions with product goals, cost efficiency, and deployment impact; proactively flag technical risks affecting availability/performance

You have

- Previous work experience as a DevOps Engineer (senior-level, owning and improving production systems)
- Extensive experience in  AWS, Kubernetes and GitLab, understanding of CI/CD, logging and monitoring processes, including:

Operate AWS environment. Building and maintaining Kubernetes Helm charts for production workloads

Designing, implementing, and maintaining GitLab pipelines for complex applications

Undeniable Linux experience and skills

Solid knowledge of web servers, networking basics, and bash scripting.

- Bonus points if you have experience with

MySQL (or other databases) at scale

PHP (Symfony framework)

Familiarity with some of: Message Brokers, logging and monitoring systems

- Fluent communication skills in English;
- Working knowledge of incorporating robust code security practices to safeguard the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of software systems including but not limited to OWASP secure coding guidelines;
- Effective collaboration skills, capable of working well in a team environment that values security and quality.
- Strong documentation mindset – you naturally document architecture, decisions, and procedures so others can follow and maintain them.
- A genuine interest in researching, testing, and introducing new ideas and tools, not just “keeping the lights on”.

## We offer

- High-performing teams. At Tribe we think outside the box, take ownership of what we do, aim high and deliver uncompromising quality. You will be surrounded by a smart and high-performing team with a collaborative mindset.
- Health & Wellness. Health insurance package from the first day that you will join our team. Enjoyable daily lunches & Pizza Fridays. Variety of healthy snacks, fresh fruits, and drinks in the office.
- Level up. We constantly explore the possibilities within our industry and in the technology we build. To keep your minds curious we offer: Tribe Learning Days - time freely spent on self-education; Internal and external training; Tribe Learning library stocked with tech books; Learning & Development budget for conferences, training, podcasts, online courses, and professional certifications.
- Work-life balance. To increase your productivity we are offering a hybrid work model - you can plan your work partly from the office or remotely from your home. You can combine your work & vacations, so be ready to plan workations. For 2 weeks per year, you can work from anywhere - and we mean anywhere! Extra days off for your health and birthday day off!
- Tribe Vibe & Culture. At Tribe, we foster a positive and fun working environment, which is called a “tribe vibe”. Even if we work hard, we do not forget to party as well: be ready for legendary tribe fest and winter fest parties, events for the tribe community every month, and regular team building.
- Office & Environment. Open, creative, and fun working environment in the brand new BLC2 business center with provided parking places. To relax your mind and body - table foosball, table tennis, and massage chair. If you mostly work from home - we offer a home office budget to make your workplace comfortable.
- The salary range for this position is 3300- 7000 euros/monthly gross. The salary proposal depends on your competencies and seniority level.

## About Tribe Payments

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tribe Payments is a cloud-native, API-first payment processing platform that enables banks, fintechs, and acquirers to build, launch, and scale financial products through a unified issuer and acquirer processing solution.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Growth stage)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Andrew Hocking (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Payment Processing / Fintech Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B — Banks, fintechs, payment businesses, and acquirers in Europe, APAC, Middle East, and Latin America.
- **Mission / purpose**: To deliver modular payment processing that businesses and financial institutions can integrate and deploy quickly, removing legacy processor constraints and long implementation delays.

## Products & Services
- **Unified Processing Platform**: A modular API-led platform combining issuer processing, acquirer processing, and digital banking into a single integration. Includes RESTful APIs, sandbox environments, webhooks, and self-service configuration.
- **Digital Banking Platform (White-Label)**: Ready-to-deploy branded mobile and web banking experience, including physical/virtual cards, multi-currency IBAN accounts, crypto wallets, currency exchange, P2P transfers, KYC, and compliance tools.
- **Bank Connect**: Centralized integration hub linking Tribe customers with banking infrastructure providers (e.g., ClearBank, Banking Circle, CENTROlink) for account issuing and transaction processing.
- **Issuer Processing**: API-first card issuing for debit, credit, and prepaid programs, with global scheme connections, real-time authorizations, and customizable cardholder experiences.
- **Acquirer Processing**: Merchant payment acceptance supporting major card schemes, P2P, subscriptions, account-to-account payments, with integrated fraud monitoring and merchant tokenization.
- **POS Solution**: Cloud-based point-of-sale solution with P2Pe encryption, real-time analytics, and remote terminal management.
- **Payment Gateway**: Online transaction facilitation for e-commerce, supporting cards and alternative payment methods.
- **Value-added services**: Open Banking, 3D Secure (own solution), fraud and risk monitoring, scheme-compliant tokenization (MDES, VTS).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding amount not disclosed; company is revenue-generating with a team of 200+ professionals
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Direct Principal Member certifications with Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. Partners include ClearBank, Banking Circle, and CENTROlink. Offices in London (HQ), Kaunas (largest tech hub), Chisinau, Singapore, and Dubai.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Strategic expansion with new offices in Dubai (Middle East) and Singapore (APAC) in 2025
  - Full cloud migration completed in 2025
  - ISO 27001 and MPoC certifications achieved
  - 70+ live customers
  - Average deployment cycle of 8-12 weeks (versus 6-12 months with legacy processors)
  - 99.99% uptime across all products

## Competitive Advantages
- **Only processor in Europe** directly connected to all major card schemes (Visa, Mastercard, Amex)
- **Dual-side platform**: Single integration supporting both issuer and acquirer processing, eliminating dual-vendor complexity
- **Cloud-native & API-first**: Built for developer teams with comprehensive documentation, sandbox environments, and webhooks
- **Speed to market**: 8-12 week deployment vs. 6-12 months for legacy monolithic processors; pre-certified scheme connections
- **Global compliance**: ISO 27001, PCI DSS Level 1, PSD2/SCA compliant, GDPR data residency support
- **Real-time operations**: Operational latency reduced from hours to milliseconds for fee structures, fraud rules, and transaction data

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: Strengthening presence in APAC (Singapore office) and Middle East (Dubai office) while serving existing European and Latin American markets
- **Platform depth**: Continuing to build out open banking capabilities, fraud/risk monitoring, and digital banking features
- **Developer experience**: Maintaining API-first approach to reduce integration friction and enable rapid scaling for customers
- **Regulatory leadership**: Maintaining highest security and compliance certifications to serve regulated financial institutions

## Why Work Here
- **Growth culture**: "High performing, ambitious, fun working culture" with a fast-paced environment and opportunities for career growth
- **Personal development**: Personal professional development plan for each employee
- **Benefits**: Private healthcare and wellness initiatives
- **Global presence**: Offices in London (HQ), Kaunas (largest tech hub), Chisinau (Moldova), Singapore, and Dubai — offering potential for international mobility
- **Engineering focus**: Tech hub in Kaunas with roles in DevOps, Quality Assurance, Development, and Business Analysis. Hybrid work option available for some roles (e.g., QA Engineer in Kaunas).
- **Team size**: 200+ passionate professionals delivering technical expertise, regulatory knowledge, and operational support

## Sources
1. [tribepayments.com](https://www.tribepayments.com/about) — Company overview, history, and certifications
2. [tribepayments.com](https://www.tribepayments.com/) — Platform details, products, and customer statistics
3. [tribepayments.com](https://www.tribepayments.com/our-people) — Leadership, office locations, and headcount
4. [tribepayments.com](https://www.tribepayments.com/vacancies) — Current openings and culture/benefits
5. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/tribe-payments) — Active job listings and locations

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