The Role
About us
Today’s financial system is built to favor those with money. Grid’s mission is to level that playing field by building financial products that help users better manage their financial future. The Grid app lets users access cash, build credit, spend money, optimize their taxes, and lots, lots more.
Grid is a fast-growing team that’s deeply passionate about making a difference in the lives of millions. We’re solving huge problems and believe that every team member has a big role to play. Come join our growing team in Seattle!
The role
We’re adding a DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer to our team to build and scale the core infrastructure that enables Grid to ship and operate. You'll work closely with business operations and the product engineering team to deliver backend services and infrastructure. Projects may include designing and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud infrastructure, ensuring system reliability and scalability, integrating with monitoring and alerting systems, and optimizing our workflows with developer experience and devops tools.
This is a high growth opportunity with the chance to hone your leadership skills while managing significant scale and complexity.
At Grid, everyone on the team is technical and hands on: You'll have the opportunity to design, develop, and operate Grid's most mission-critical infrastructure end to end. Unlocking scale and getting our customers one step closer to financial freedom, your work "behind the scenes" will be at the forefront of Grid's ongoing success and growth.
The Tech Stack
Our tech stack is GCP, Go, protobufs and MySQL. We have native mobile apps, an event-driven architecture on the backend and data infrastructure for streaming analytics and ML. Despite a complex domain and data model, most new hires get productive on our stack within a few days.
What you’ll do:
- Manage Grid's production infrastructure end to end
- Enable continuous, compliant deployment of Grid's latest product and backend systems
- Design, develop and operate Grid's AI deployment strategy
- Serve our AI/ML team with infrastructure for training and online inference
- Operate and scale sensitive payment processing systems
- Debug, quantify and minimize exceptions
- Set up sustainable best practices for DevOps and FinOps, including monitoring and analytics
- Champion new practices to improve customer experience and enable exponential growth
- Lead and own projects end to end
What we're looking for:
- Experience building and deploying software at scale
- Product mindset, mission-driven approach
- Deep knowledge in a variety of DevOps/infrastructure topics
- Operational mindset, focus on efficiency, observability and reproducibility
- Prior experience in FinTech, payments or other similar business domains
- Experience with our tech stack (or willingness to learn quickly/independently)
- Data-driven approach, fluency in SQL queries and Datadog analysis
- Deep experience with modern cloud-native data architecture
- Motivated, entrepreneurially minded individuals who thrive in an environment with minimal structure, high ownership and technically challenging problems
- Ability to understand complex business requirements and translate them into pragmatic technical plans
- An efficient approach to software development that drives accuracy and user experience
Similar Jobs
Get Personalized Job Insights.
Our AI-powered fit analysis compares your resume with a job listing so you know if your skills & experience align.
Success! Refresh the page to see how your skills align with this role.
The Company
What We Do
We're building Grid to help hard-working Americans. We're starting by giving back the money you overpay in taxes today, not next year. Use that extra cash to save for a home upgrade, make the holidays a little brighter, or just give yourself a treat. Grid has already helped thousands of people get a little closer to their dreams. And we're just getting started.
