Platform Engineer (Contract-to-Hire)

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 EDGE 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
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.
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

Requirements:
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.
 
The right candidate meets the following:

• 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, but not requirements:

• 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
• Excellent technical understanding of modern web application development practices
• Passion for security, observability, and failover

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Flexible, remote work
• Fun, fast-paced work environment
• Dynamic start-up culture
• Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city
• Equal opportunity employer

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