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NinjaHoldings · 1 day ago

Staff Platform Engineer

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

7+ years exp

NinjaHoldings is a company focused on revolutionizing financial services for everyday Americans, providing digital banking and lending products. The Staff Platform Engineer will lead the architecture, design, development, and operations of cloud-based applications and services, ensuring best practices and mentoring team members.

CreditFinancial ServicesLendingPayments

No H1B

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

Qualification

Cloud native solutionsTerraformKubernetesAWSCI/CD pipelinesDistributed systemsLinux environmentsProgramming languagesNetwork engineeringAPIs developmentSecurity policies

Required

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