NinjaHoldings
NinjaHoldings was founded in 2017 by a team seeking to revolutionize the way everyday Americans interact with financial services. Through our CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands, we empower people overlooked by traditional financial institutions to take control of their finances via a full suite of digital banking and lending products, providing incentives and rewards along the way as we guide them on a path to financial improvement. Through our NinjaEdge brand, we help companies better understand their customers by offering a package of bespoke underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics services. With offices in Chicago, Miami, and around the world through the power of remote work, we are a lean and innovative team always seeking like-minded talent to join us in our fight to disrupt consumer finance.
Job Summary Our Sr/Staff Platform Engineers are technical leaders driving architecture, design, development, and operations best practices and in excellence through mentoring and coaching. You will be leading the engineering and operations of cloud-based mission critical applications and services. Our Platform Engineering organization is building our internal platform for internal clients by using principles such as self-service, developer-focused experience, cloud native and more.
A successful candidate will have a proven history designing and deploying robust cloud native solutions at scale. You are an outstanding technical leader with recent "hands on" production cloud engineering / platform engineering experience and comfortable with agile software delivery and DevOps practices and exude creativity and curiosity to learn new technologies. You are product-minded, customer focused and seeking constantly to understand and evolve products per the customer's needs.
Key Responsibilities
Designing and developing automated solutions for deploying highly available, fault tolerant, cloud-based infrastructure
Streamlining and standardizing internal development and deployment processes
Creating and maintaining detailed technical specifications and documentation for proposed solutions
Providing on-call production infrastructure support as part of a team rotation, ensuring platform stability and rapid incident response
Ideal Candidate Will Have Successful candidates for this role will be highly motivated self-starters with a proven track record of using modern technology and platform engineering practices to design and deploy robust, cloud-native solutions at scale.
7+ years of technical experience in an engineering organization with 3+ years leading architecture, design, development, and operations with an outcome-driven mindset
3+ years of hands-on experience using Terraform to manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in a production environment
3+ years of hands-on experience in architectures and scaling using Kubernetes
An entrepreneurial spirit with a willingness to take risks to solve complex technology problems with innovative solutions
Excellent technical depth in parallel computing & distributed system design and development
Proficiency in consensus building and design-in-advance of solutions, as well as indirectly influencing without authority
Adept at building Highly Available and Fault Tolerant cloud-based systems with Security and Disaster Recovery as first-class concerns
Expertise developing infrastructure solutions and operations in AWS
Experience at building low friction highly responsive APIs and the services to support them
Demonstrated excellence in multiple programming languages
Solid experience in Linux environments and network engineering
Adept implementing and automating CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code (using tools such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
A passion for high quality platform development & automation and the ability to mentor others through design and code reviews
Bachelor's degree in computer science or a similar technical field or equivalent practical experience
Additional Pluses
Experience with Ruby, Python, Go and/or Kubeflow
Experience in multiple SQL and NoSQL database technology stacks
Excellent technical depth in web and internet standards
Passion for "security first" policies
Advanced degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field or equivalent practical experience
Benefits
Competitive salary and benefits package
Flexible, remote work
Fun, fast-paced work environment
Dynamic start-up culture
Ability to make an immediate impact in a growth stage company
Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city
Equal opportunity employer
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.
IMPORTANT NOTICE Please carefully review communications to ensure that they are from the official Breezy applicant tracking platform (@ninjaholdings.breezy-mail.com) or an official NinjaHoldings brand email: @ninjaholdings.com, @creditninja.com, @ninjacard.com, or @edgescore.com. If you have been contacted regarding a job opening at NinjaHoldings from any other email address, including similar email variations, this is NOT a trusted source. We recommend that you refrain from responding to suspicious emails and file a complaint with the FBI's Internet Crime Compliant Center (IC3) at https://www.ic3.gov. For questions or to confirm the authenticity of a communication, please email hr @ ninjaholdings.com.
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Job Summary Our Sr/Staff Platform Engineers are technical leaders driving architecture, design, development, and operations best practices and in excellence through mentoring and coaching. You will be leading the engineering and operations of cloud-based mission critical applications and services. Our Platform Engineering organization is building our internal platform for internal clients by using principles such as self-service, developer-focused experience, cloud native and more.
A successful candidate will have a proven history designing and deploying robust cloud native solutions at scale. You are an outstanding technical leader with recent "hands on" production cloud engineering / platform engineering experience and comfortable with agile software delivery and DevOps practices and exude creativity and curiosity to learn new technologies. You are product-minded, customer focused and seeking constantly to understand and evolve products per the customer's needs.
Key Responsibilities
Designing and developing automated solutions for deploying highly available, fault tolerant, cloud-based infrastructure
Streamlining and standardizing internal development and deployment processes
Creating and maintaining detailed technical specifications and documentation for proposed solutions
Providing on-call production infrastructure support as part of a team rotation, ensuring platform stability and rapid incident response
Ideal Candidate Will Have Successful candidates for this role will be highly motivated self-starters with a proven track record of using modern technology and platform engineering practices to design and deploy robust, cloud-native solutions at scale.
7+ years of technical experience in an engineering organization with 3+ years leading architecture, design, development, and operations with an outcome-driven mindset
3+ years of hands-on experience using Terraform to manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in a production environment
3+ years of hands-on experience in architectures and scaling using Kubernetes
An entrepreneurial spirit with a willingness to take risks to solve complex technology problems with innovative solutions
Excellent technical depth in parallel computing & distributed system design and development
Proficiency in consensus building and design-in-advance of solutions, as well as indirectly influencing without authority
Adept at building Highly Available and Fault Tolerant cloud-based systems with Security and Disaster Recovery as first-class concerns
Expertise developing infrastructure solutions and operations in AWS
Experience at building low friction highly responsive APIs and the services to support them
Demonstrated excellence in multiple programming languages
Solid experience in Linux environments and network engineering
Adept implementing and automating CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code (using tools such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
A passion for high quality platform development & automation and the ability to mentor others through design and code reviews
Bachelor's degree in computer science or a similar technical field or equivalent practical experience
Additional Pluses
Experience with Ruby, Python, Go and/or Kubeflow
Experience in multiple SQL and NoSQL database technology stacks
Excellent technical depth in web and internet standards
Passion for "security first" policies
Advanced degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field or equivalent practical experience
Benefits
Competitive salary and benefits package
Flexible, remote work
Fun, fast-paced work environment
Dynamic start-up culture
Ability to make an immediate impact in a growth stage company
Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city
Equal opportunity employer
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.
IMPORTANT NOTICE Please carefully review communications to ensure that they are from the official Breezy applicant tracking platform (@ninjaholdings.breezy-mail.com) or an official NinjaHoldings brand email: @ninjaholdings.com, @creditninja.com, @ninjacard.com, or @edgescore.com. If you have been contacted regarding a job opening at NinjaHoldings from any other email address, including similar email variations, this is NOT a trusted source. We recommend that you refrain from responding to suspicious emails and file a complaint with the FBI's Internet Crime Compliant Center (IC3) at https://www.ic3.gov. For questions or to confirm the authenticity of a communication, please email hr @ ninjaholdings.com.
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