Graduate Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Overview

Acre is rebuilding the UK’s £1.4 trillion mortgage market from the ground up, with a completely new, end-to-end management system for mortgages. Our platform cuts out the unnecessary admin, pain and friction from buying a home. We're covering the entire journey, from figuring out what you can borrow to getting your keys. Guided by the voice of real home buyers and our close relationships with brokers, lenders and insurers, mortgage submissions through our platform grew 200% in the past year—an indication of our impact. As we grow, we’re looking for ambitious people to join us in transforming the industry and shaping the future of home buying.

The role

We are looking for a Graduate Site Reliability Engineer who wants to help ensure our platform for homebuying is always available and secure. Your role will be to work closely with the broader team to keep CI pipelines smooth and efficient, maintain a performant, stable and secure production environment, and achieve exceptional insight and transparency into our operational environment. Your approach should be that no task is done twice.

What you’ll be doing

As a key member of the engineering team you will be responsible for the implementation and testing of non‑functional aspects of our platform such as security, performance and scaling. You will help deliver a product that remains secure, performs well in the real world, and meets our software quality and security benchmarks. Working across the full software development life cycle, you will quickly switch between tasks, collaborating with frontend and backend teams to efficiently deliver software.

Who you will be

• Passionate about software engineering and delivering a quality product.
• Curious about new and evolving technologies, enjoying tinkering with systems and networks.
• Aware of technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes & Terraform.
• Knowledgeable in information security principles, especially environment hardening.
• Experienced in implementing monitoring and logging for security, operational and application performance management.
• Familiar with CI processes.
• Preferably skilled in at least one programming/scripting language.

What we offer

• A chance to make an impact within a high‑growth fintech start‑up.
• Monthly team social events—from trips to Brighton to park picnics.
• One week of free accommodation for those relocating.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Opportunity to earn equity through our EMI option scheme.
• Company laptop and supporting tech.
• Private healthcare and a cash plan.
• Pension contribution matched by Acre up to 4%.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Breakfast, snacks and drinks in our vibrant Shoreditch office.

We’re looking for people who will get stuck in and make a difference. We have a great collaborative, entrepreneurial team that is passionate about what they do. If you want to join a team tackling a big problem space, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re eager to receive applications from all backgrounds, including people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

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