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Staff Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

Imprints

Finance

51-200

New York, NY, USA

About the job

Overview:

Who We Are
Imprint is building a next-generation co-branded credit card company to serve America’s great brands. Today our partners include H-E-B and Central Market. Imprint is backed by Ribbit Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Thrive Capital, and Affirm. We are focused on building a brilliant team who want to change payments and who embody Imprint’s Operating Principles.
The Team
The Platform Engineering Team at Imprint is at the forefront of democratizing access to cutting-edge technologies, empowering teams across our organization to innovate and excel. Driven by our vision to redefine the Fintech landscape, our team is committed to building a secure, highly available infrastructure and arming our engineers with a comprehensive development toolchain, empowering them to bring to life world-class products swiftly.
Responsibilities

Proactively identify bottlenecks throughout the SDLC and implement strategic solutions to overcome them.
Propose, design, and deliver enhancements that boost developer productivity and efficiency.
Develop and monitor key metrics to track the effectiveness of our toolchain and technological solutions.
Actively explore emerging technologies, guide technical strategy, and assess new tools to support our scaling organization and growing user base.
Utilize various technologies, including AWS, Kubernetes, NoSQL and SQL databases, Kafka, gRPC, and Terraform.

What We Look For

8+ years in leading building and maintaining developer toolchains, from backend to frontend, including support code generation, CI / CD pipelines, experimentation platform, testing environment, etc., within an engineering organization of 100+ engineers
Experience in Kubernetes, with a strong background in administrating and building custom resources
Experience with AWS, familiar with utilizing AWS services as building blocks
Experience in Golang and at least one of the scripting languages, e.g. Python, Bash, etc.
A deep understanding of distributed infrastructure and containerization technologies
A deep understanding of the SDLC and a passion for improving developer productivity
Exceptional troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science or equivalent discipline

Nice to Have

Experience in building payments-related products
Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
Track record of managing mission-critical, 24x7 production software systems
Open-source project experience

Perks & Benefits

Competitive compensation and equity packages
Leading configured work computers of your choice
Paid time off policy
Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
Additional health coverage includes access to One Medical and the option to enroll in an FSA
16 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents
An understanding that successful remote work requires flexibility and an appreciation for asynchronous work
Access to industry-leading technology across all of our business units — stemming from our philosophy that we should invest in resources for our team that foster innovation, optimization, and productivity