VP, Infrastructure & SDLC
As the VP of SDLC & Infrastructure, the successful candidate will own the strategy for how Trustly builds and ships software in an AI-native environment. This includes overseeing the software development lifecycle, developer platform, and the underlying cloud infrastructure with a mandate to modernise, optimise, and AI-enable these critical systems.
The role involves leading a team of SDLC specialists, platform engineers, and infrastructure engineers to set the vision for developer productivity across the organisation. It is designed for an engineering leader who possesses a deep understanding of software construction, operational excellence, and the future trajectory of software development.
- Own Trustly's AWS infrastructure strategy, driving cost optimisation, architectural best practices, reliability, and scalability across a complex, globally distributed payment system.
- Define and lead Trustly's AI-optimised SDLC by embedding AI-assisted coding, testing, code review, and deployment practices into the development lifecycle to increase engineering velocity and quality.
- Own Trustly's incident management process, building a mature, blameless incident culture with clear escalation paths, effective runbooks, and rigorous post-mortem practices.
- Build and lead the team responsible for developer tooling, CI/CD infrastructure, and internal platforms to create a developer experience that makes Trustly engineers faster and less frustrated.
- Drive infrastructure cost management and cloud optimisation by establishing FinOps practices and ensuring Trustly's AWS spend is efficient and accountable.
- Partner with Engineering leadership across teams to establish and enforce infrastructure standards, security practices, and architectural guardrails.
- 15+ years of engineering experience, with at least 5 years leading infrastructure, platform, or DevOps teams in a high-scale cloud environment (required).
- Deep AWS expertise, including knowledge of services, architecture patterns, and cost levers for complex, high-throughput financial services platforms (required).
- Strong perspective on AI-optimised development practices, with experience experimenting with or implementing AI-assisted coding, testing, and deployment tooling (required).
- Experienced incident commander who has built incident response programmes and led high-severity response in production (required).
- Developer experience advocate focused on measuring and improving the speed and confidence with which engineers ship software (required).
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, capable of working across Product, Security, and Engineering to drive adoption of standards without being a bottleneck (required).
- Flexible paid time off and generous PTO accrual plans
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and other insurances
- FSA and HSA plans for medical and dependent care
- Home office set-up allowance
- Internet stipend
- Retirement plan match for 401k and RRSP
- Gender-neutral paid parental leave
Trustly is a Swedish fintech company specialising in account-to-account (open banking) payments, letting consumers pay directly from their bank accounts without cards. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Stockholm, it connects merchants - including many online gambling operators - to thousands of banks across Europe and North America. The company processes billions of euros in payments annually and is a widely used deposit and withdrawal method in the iGaming industry. Trustly employs more than 1,000 people across offices in Europe and the Americas.