Cloud Platform Engineer

Hi, We're AffiniPay!
AffiniPay is a leading fintech company, based out of Austin, Texas. As the market leader in professional services payments and practice management software, AffiniPay's tech products serve legal, accounting, architectural, engineering and construction firms. AffiniPay has been recognized as one of Inc. 5000's fastest growing companies in the U.S. for 13 years in a row, and as a result, our teams continue to grow as well!
AffiniPay is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to help us build and maintain our next-generation platform. You will be a member of the Platform Engineering Organization, which is responsible for the software delivery and infrastructure management focusing on availability, performance and security of core service layers supporting our payments platform and practice management software. We serve over 200,000 legal professionals and process over $18 billion in payments every year! You will work closely with our development team to ensure they have the tools needed to build, test, and deploy code with ease and ensure developer and QA engineer success. You will engineer and maintain configuration management environments, software delivery pipelines, IaC processes, technical governance and observability tools among other areas of platform availability.
What You'll Do

• Automate deployment, monitoring, and management for 100% AWS cloud based infrastructure
• Develop, implement and own developer-focused internal tooling and automation as your product
• Share in new feature design as the cloud SME supporting container/k8s first designs
• Create and maintain automated CICD pipelines that streamline the release process and ensure high-quality code is delivered rapidly and continuously
• Collaborate with developers to identify pain points and bottlenecks in the development process and design and implement solutions that improve the developer experience and increase overall productivity.
• Put together comprehensive onboarding programs and training resources to seamlessly integrate new developers into the organization
• Participate in an on-call rotation and provide emergency support outside of normally scheduled hours as needed
• Evolve and extend observability tools and systems to determine and resolve performance and usability issues

About You

• 5+ years of professional technical experience in software engineering, AWS cloud operations or a related function.
• 3+ years of experience within a DevOps or SRE role
• Experience implementing and maintaining kubernetes specific CICD pipelines using CircleCI (preferred), ArgoCD (preferred), Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab, Azure Devops, etc.
• Experience creating internal tooling that supports developer productivity
• Experience designing and implementing automated development environments
• Documented experience provisioning and managing infrastructure in a public cloud environment such as AWS (heavily preferred), Google Cloud Platform, or Azure
• Experience with Linux container technologies, such as Docker, OCI, LXC and ability to administer, build and deploy images in an automated manner.
• Solid understanding of how a Kubernetes Platform operates (service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, load balancing)
• Proficiency in at least one, ideally more of the following programming or scripting languages: Ruby, Python, Java, Javascript (NodeJS), Bash
• Experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code to provision and maintain infrastructure: Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation
• Understanding of relational database systems such as MySQL (preferred) and PostgreSQL
• Experience with Kafka on an MSK environment is a plus
• Experience with ElasticSearch is a plus
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• This position is preferred to sit in Austin, Texas

Our Story
Founded in 2005, AffiniPay's mission is to build technology products that helps professionals focus on the work they love. As the leader in the professional payments industry, AffiniPay's products serve legal, accounting, architectural, engineering and construction firms. Our portfolio of software solutions include MyCase (Legal Practice Management Software), CASEpeer (Practice Management for Personal Injury Firms), and Docketwise (Immigration & Case Management Software). Our portfolio of payment solutions include LawPay (Legal), AffiniPay for Associations (Associations), CPACharge (Accounting Professionals), and ClientPay (Architect, Engineer, and Construction). AffiniPay's products serve over one hundred thousand users, and we are noted as one of the fastest growing tech companies in Austin, Texas. We are constantly looking for talent to join our team to continue playing a key part in unlocking our potential.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at AffiniPay
At AffiniPay, we recognize that innovation occurs with a strong team of people who are diverse in background, personality, talent and ideas. Experience comes in many forms and ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we continue to learn from each other is an integral part of our culture. We are committed to creating a welcoming and transparent environment for all that embraces those differences through education, equal access to opportunities and information, inclusionary programs, and community outreach.
Benefits that Benefit You!
As a people first culture, we believe it is important that our teammates are happy, healthy, and productive. In order to best support that, AffiniPay provides award-winning benefits that can make a difference in your life - right now and for the future.

• All employees receive fully covered medical, dental and vision coverage - Choose from our 2 available health plans based on what fits you and/or your family!
• Have some fur babies? - We offer them insurance too!
• RELAX and enjoy your time away with our flexible paid time off policy!
• We will help you plan for your future - 401K, or RRSP if in Canada, with a company match
• Competitive compensation packages that include mid-year and end-of-year bonuses and equity options for all full-time employees
• Health Wellness Program that includes nutrition consultations, mental health apps, and access to discounted memberships
• Have plans to grow your family? - Parental resources, including 16 weeks of paid time off for primary caregivers
• Professional development opportunities including mentorships, leadership programs and our AffiniPayU courses
• We believe it is important to give back with our Matching Gift Program and organized activities focused on donations, volunteerism and supporting the local communities throughout the country
• D&I initiatives provide educational opportunities regarding multicultural issues, tolerance, and celebrating diversity among our entire staff
• An incredible, in-office experience at our headquarters in Austin and San Diego including free lunch delivery, a fully stocked kitchen, and some "sweet" surprises for those afternoon pick-me-ups

Security Advisory
Our hiring teams at AffiniPay are dedicated to recruiting top talent that share our passion for serving the professional services industry through innovative financial technology. As such, our Talent Acquisition Team only follows legitimate hiring practices. We will always communicate with our candidates using emails with the AffiniPay domain and will never ask for sensitive/personal data during the application process. All interviews take place over phone call, Zoom/Google Meet or in person. All offers are communicated verbally by our Talent Acquisition Specialists with a written offer letter as a follow up.