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Rhys Fisher

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VP of Engineering, Arbor Energy - Java · PostgreSQL · gRPC

Works at
Arbor Energy
Location
Edinburgh, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
Experience
14+ years experience
Education
Royal College of Art
Languages
English
Hiring
Message Connect

Overview

I lead payments infrastructure at Arbor Energy in Edinburgh. Built the experimentation framework 34 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Standard Chartered and NatWest. Most at home with idempotency and PCI DSS. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

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Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
JavaPostgreSQLgRPCGoidempotencyPCI DSS
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Hiring a staff security engineer for the payments platform team - Edinburgh

Role
Staff security engineer
Level
Staff / Principal
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$122k-$177k + equity
Team
Payments platform, 7 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with PCI DSS Production experience with PostgreSQL Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp £96k-£165k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Edinburgh, UKgrpcgojava
Open

Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Jun 2025 - Present
    Arbor Energy · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
    • Wrote the Java service that now handles 13 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 2.
    • Built the experimentation framework 7 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2022 - Jun 2025
    Standard Chartered · 3 yr 4 mo · Contract · Edinburgh, UK
    • Took payment success rates from 94.4% to 96.6%.
    • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 16 a week to 3.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Apr 2018 - Feb 2022
    NatWest · 3 yr 10 mo · Contract · Edinburgh, UK
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 8 million transactions a day.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Mar 2016 - Apr 2018
    Deliveroo · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
    • Moved 95% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 5 million transactions a day.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2012 - Mar 2016
    Lloyds Banking Group · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
    • Sit on 2 boards.
    • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.

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Education

  1. Royal College of Art
    MA, Information Technology
    2004 - 2006
  2. Queen's University Belfast
    BSc, Information Technology
    1997 - 2000

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