Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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What We're Doing

At Synctera, we’re powering the future of FinTech. We help companies create new revenue streams and enhance their value proposition with FinTech apps and embedded banking products. With APIs, compliance support, and bank partners in one end-to-end Banking as a Service platform, Synctera is the fastest and easiest way to build, launch, and scale bank accounts, debit cards, charge cards, lending, and more. 

We are looking for interesting, curious, wickedly smart people who are ready to jump in and run with our fast-growing team. If you want to have fun at work, collaborate with some of the sharpest people in the industry, grow the FinTech and Banking as a Service ecosystem, and love to win, read on!

What We're Looking For

As a software engineer on our platform team, you’ll work on all aspects of Synctera’s infrastructure and many components within our overall platform, including a number of core application services, customer and internal-facing infrastructure, and tooling to improve our internal developer experience.

This is a high-autonomy role that will help shape the future of Synctera’s platform and will work directly across a broad swath of product and engineering, being an escalation point for infrastructure questions and other topics that span across teams.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with the product team and engineers to understand financial services challenges and develop effective solutions
• Help define and drive Synctera’s infrastructure and developer experience roadmap
• Design, enhance, and maintain Synctera's Google Cloud and CI/CD infrastructure
• Develop services and utilities in Go
• Solve engineering problems as part of a small team
• Work across engineering teams to build top-tier platform tooling and enhance the developer experience
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure platform stability
• Identify and implement cleaner, more efficient solutions to technical problems.
• Advocate for modern infrastructure and development best practices, fostering knowledge-sharing across the team

What You’ll Bring

• Experience with Go or a comparable structured and opinionated language
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and related cloud-native technologies like Argo and Istio
• Experience with monitoring and alerting platform tools such as Prometheus, Alertmanager & Grafana
• Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider, preferably Google Cloud

Nice to Have

• Experience with Python / GitLab APIs / Google Cloud APIs / Postgres
• Familiarity with security compliance frameworks (PCI, SOC 2, SOC 1)
• Experience being a part of early-stage, fast-moving engineering teams
  

Our Stack

Our platform is built in Go (for backend services) and React with Typescript (for the Synctera Console, our frontend). We’re built on top of Google Cloud Platform and typically use Postgres (Cloud SQL, AlloyDB), Redis (Cloud Memorystore), and Pub/Sub as our core application stack, with OpenAPI specifications being used to both document our API and be the foundation for inter-service communication.

Our infrastructure is predominantly a mixture of Kubernetes (Google Kubernetes Engine) and Cloud Run (Google’s serverless compute platform), with Terraform orchestrating infrastructure, and tools like Argo facilitating deployments.

Diversity & Inclusion

Synctera is committed to having a workforce that is reflective of the diversity within the United States and Canada. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applications from candidates from underrepresented communities, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity, and all those who can provide different perspectives and contribute to the diversification of Synctera.

Benefits

• 100% employer paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for US and Canadian employees and dependents 
• Employer contribution to HSA for US employees 
• Annual HCSA and generous extended health care coverage for Canadian employees and dependents 
• 401(k) for US employees and RRSP for Canadian employees
• Mental health resources available for all employees 
• Unlimited paid time off 
• Generous paid new parent leave program 
• Home office setup stipend 
• Stock options program for all employees 
• Growth potential and opportunity to have a significant impact at an early stage of our company's journey
• Working alongside a skilled and passionate team

The salary for this full-time position (USD: $160,000-$190,000 CAD: $145,000-$180,000) is determined by role, level, and location. The range informed in this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries across all US and Canadian locations. Within the range, individual pay will be determined by work location, job-related skills, experience, relevant training, and other factors.

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