About the role
Founded in 2017, NinjaHoldings works to give everyday Americans better access to financial services than traditional institutions typically provide. Through our CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands, we offer digital banking and lending products designed for consumers often overlooked, paired with incentives that support long-term financial improvement. Our Edge brand extends this expertise to other companies, providing underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics services. Headquartered in Chicago with a distributed global workforce, we are a lean, growing organization committed to advancing consumer finance in the US.
Job Summary
Platform Engineers in this role are part of the Operations department and will be primarily focused on the design, development and automation of our cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. This person will work closely with the Software and Risk Engineering teams across our brands to streamline our environments and deployment processes.
Successful candidates for this role will be highly motivated self-starters with a proven track record of using modern technology and software engineering practices to design and deploy robust, cloud-native solutions at scale.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop, and maintain automation for managing scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure
Automate infrastructure lifecycle management, including upgrades, dependency management, security patching, and vulnerability remediation
Identify and eliminate repetitive manual processes through automation, improving operational efficiency, consistency, and reliability
Collaborate with engineering and business teams to improve platform capabilities, enable emerging technologies, and document technical solutions
Ideal Candidate Will Have:
3+ years of technical experience in an engineering organization
Extensive experience building highly available, fault tolerant cloud-based systems
Excellent technical understanding of distributed system design and development
Experience implementing automated CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and IaC
Experience in container-based architectures using Kubernetes
Solid fluency in Linux-based environments and network engineering
Demonstrated excellence in multiple programming languages
Excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills
Additional Pluses:
Experience setting up modern 3-tier web application platforms on AWS
Experience with Ruby, Python, Terraform, GitHub Actions and/or Kubeflow
Experience in multiple SQL and NoSQL database technology stacks
Interest in AI technologies and experience supporting or enabling their adoption across engineering and business teams
Excellent technical understanding of modern web application development practices
Passion for security, observability, and failover
Benefits & Perks:
Flexible Paid Time Off
Health Benefits with generous medical, dental and vision insurance plans
401(k) with matching contribution
Paid Family Leave
Annual Wellness & WFH Subsidies
Employee Referral Program
Remote first culture with convenient downtown office in the heart of the city
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
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Salary: $100,000 – $150,000 / yearOriginally posted on Himalayas
