• 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.

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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. We’re guided both by the voice of real home buyers and by our close relationships with brokers, lenders and insurers.

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After a record-breaking 2023 with a 400% year-on-year increase in mortgage volume, we have continued our momentum by doubling our market share in 2024. As we go into 2025, we are continuing to onboard some huge names in the mortgage industry and are looking to expand our team. ‍

Join our Engineering team to help us change the way people buy homes.

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The role:

We are looking for a Graduate DevOps Engineer that 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 help ensure our CI pipelines are smooth, efficient, and ensure quality; our production environment is performant, stable and secure; and we have an exceptional degree of insight and transparency into our operational environment.

Your approach to the role should be that no task is done twice.

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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 that delivers our product to users, keeps it secure and helps us understand its performance in the real world.

You will be involved in our full software development life cycle; you will be expected to quickly switch between tasks and work with the frontend and backend engineering teams to ensure they are able to efficiently deliver software while meeting our software quality and security benchmarks.

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Who you will be:

• Passionate about software engineering and about delivering a quality product.
• Curious about new and evolving technologies. Enjoys tinkering with systems and networks.
• Have an awareness of technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform & Ansible.
• Have an awareness of information security principles, particular with respect to environment hardening.
• Have an understanding of implementing monitoring and logging for security, operational and application performance management.
• Have an understanding of CI.
• Preferably have knowledge of 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 Picnics in the park
• 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 provided in our vibrant Shoreditch office

We’re eager to receive applications from all backgrounds, including from 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.

Our story

Our hiring process

If you’re ambitious and want to make a difference to the mortgage market, join us. We’re a fully funded, early-stage Fintech start-up in a unique position to make an impact.

Step 1

Get in touch

Step 2

Let 's chat

If we like what we see, we’ll set up a quick, very informal chat to talk about your work experience, skills, and really just get to know you a bit better. Feel free to come armed with loads of questions!

Step 3

Put your skills on show

After that, we’ll usually ask you to complete a short task. Don’t sweat this part, we just want to see how you approach projects and solve problems.

Step 4

Meet your future colleagues

Once you’ve smashed your task, we’ll set up one last interview with your future colleagues and senior leadership. There we’ll chat through your task or technical exercise and talk in a bit more detail about the role you’re applying for.

Step 5

Pop that cork!

Boom! Sign those dotted lines, give everybody the highest of fives and update your LinkedIn profile because it’s time to start helping us rewrite the rules of the mortgage industry. We can’t wait for you to join us.

Our perks

At Acre Platforms, we are committed to creating an enjoyable and fulfilling work environment for all of our team members. That’s why we offer a variety of company perks to help make your time at Acre as enjoyable as possible. Some of the perks you can expect when joining our team include:

Share options

At Acre, We believe in sharing the success of the company with our team members. That’s why we offer employee share options through an EMI Option Scheme so everyone has a direct stake.

Remote work options

Flexible working hours and remote work options for employees to balance work and personal life.

Pension

Automatic enrolment to our Aviva pension scheme and we’ll match up to 4% contributions, but of course you can pay as much in as you’d like.

Learn on the job

Get access to Pluralsight as soon as you join, plus regular lunch & learns on everything from tech to design to business. And, if you want, you can join us at events and meetups too.

Health insurance

Relax knowing you have access to Bupa private medical insurance and a medical cash plan for added security.

Home office budget

We offer a generous home office budget to help our employees create a comfortable and productive work environment.

Regular socials

All work and no play isn’t the way here. Our monthly socials could be anything from darts to shows to poker. You’ll also find we love a lunch and pub outing too!

Cycle to work scheme

Save the planet, get some exercise and avoid the dreaded rush hour tube by spreading the cost of a new bike with our cycle to work scheme.