Python Job: Staff DevOps Enginner

Company

Payfare is a global financial technology company powering digital banking and instant payout solutions for today’s workforce. Payfare partners with major platforms (including Lyft, DoorDash, and Uber) in the on-demand gig economy to drive financial inclusion and empowerment for next-generation workers.

Payfare’s suite of products include Payfare branded and co-branded mobile banking apps and a debit/prepaid card that allows gig workers to get paid instantly, earn cashback rewards and get access to no-fee banking. Based on a service oriented architecture, Payfare’s core platform has proven capabilities of processing high volumes of payments.

Duties and Responsibilities

As a Staff DevOps Engineer at Payfare, you will be joining a diverse team of mixed background technologists. Our mandate as a team is to provide flexible and stable platform solutions that empower our feature development teams to create the highest quality services for our customers. Day to day, we spend our time developing, testing, and deploying reliability and resiliency features on our Kubernetes-based architecture, adding new functionality, providing production-level support, maintaining and improving existing hardware and software configurations, and removing friction points in system level processes. At larger scales, we make significant upgrades to the capabilities of what Payfare can achieve as an emerging leader in the payments industry.

Specifically, this role requires an advanced level of knowledge in architecting AWS and Kubernetes. You will be leading the expansion of Payfare’s system across the globe, in a multi-regional configuration. This role also requires strong communication skills, and a proactive mindset, such that the needs of the organization as a whole are met. From time to time, there will be a need to provide infrastructure support outside business hours.

Reports to: Director of Infrastructure and Development Operations

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or operations
• Experience as a team lead preferred
• Proficiency in Unix Shell scripting, and some proficiency in Python preferred
• Strong understanding of network architecture and application development methodologies

Advanced Qualifications

• Experience working in and setting up multi-regional AWS configurations and deployments.
• An understanding of common traps and pitfalls that can occur in a globally distributed infrastructure.
• Experience working with a data warehousing solution such as AWS Redshift, DMS and Lambda tasks, to ensure business intelligence needs are met in a global environment.
• Very strong, foundational Kubernetes knowledge. Examples of admission controllers or operators that were authored are highly desirable, but not expected.

Equal Opportunity

Payfare Inc. recognizes the importance of providing an accessible and barrier free environment to succeed. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse and equal opportunity workforce where all employees are valued and respected. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Paid time off
• Wellness program
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote