Founded in 2017, NinjaHoldings works to give everyday Americans better access to financial services than traditional institutions typically provide. Through our CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands, we offer digital banking and lending products designed for consumers often overlooked, paired with incentives that support long-term financial improvement. Our Edge brand extends this expertise to other companies, providing underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics services. Headquartered in Chicago with a distributed global workforce, we are a lean, growing organization committed to advancing consumer finance in the US.
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.
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.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, and maintain automation for managing scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure
- Automate infrastructure lifecycle management, including upgrades, dependency management, security patching, and vulnerability remediation
- Identify and eliminate repetitive manual processes through automation, improving operational efficiency, consistency, and reliability
- Collaborate with engineering and business teams to improve platform capabilities, enable emerging technologies, and document technical solutions
Ideal Candidate Will Have:
- 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:
- 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
- Interest in AI technologies and experience supporting or enabling their adoption across engineering and business teams
- Excellent technical understanding of modern web application development practices
- Passion for security, observability, and failover
Benefits & Perks:
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Health Benefits with generous medical, dental and vision insurance plans
- 401(k) with matching contribution
- Paid Family Leave
- Annual Wellness & WFH Subsidies
- Employee Referral Program
- Remote first culture with convenient downtown office in the heart of the city
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Please carefully review communications to ensure that they are from the official Breezy applicant tracking platform (@breezy-mail.com) or an official NinjaHoldings brand email: @ninjaholdings.com, @creditninja.com, @ninjacard.com, or @edgescore.com. If you have been contacted regarding a job opening at NinjaHoldings from any other email address, including similar email variations, this is NOT a trusted source. We recommend that you refrain from responding to suspicious emails and file a complaint with the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at https://www.ic3.gov. For questions or to confirm the authenticity of a communication, please email hr @ninjaholdings.com.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of technical experience in an engineering organization
- Experience building highly available and fault-tolerant cloud-based systems
- Strong understanding of distributed system design and development
- Experience implementing automated CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and infrastructure as code
- Experience with container-based architectures using Kubernetes
- Fluency in Linux-based environments and network engineering
- Demonstrated proficiency in multiple programming languages
- Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills
- Experience setting up modern three-tier web application platforms on AWS
- Experience with Ruby, Python, Terraform, GitHub Actions, or Kubeflow
- Experience with multiple SQL and NoSQL database technology stacks
- Experience supporting or enabling AI technology adoption
- Understanding of modern web application development practices
- Interest in security, observability, and failover
NinjaHoldings Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Employer 401(k) matching is advertised, signaling concrete support for long-term savings. Pairing with equity grants adds potential wealth-building beyond base pay.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision insurance are part of the core package, indicating broad foundational coverage. Additional listings cite life and disability insurance and FSA options that expand protection.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited PTO, paid sick days, and holidays are described, supporting time-away needs. Parental leave and flexible schedules, including summer hours, further reinforce time-off flexibility.
NinjaHoldings Insights
What We Do
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.
Why Work With Us
Our culture of growth is driven by hard-working people who move fast. We’re a highly collaborative, fast-moving, and data-centric company led by industry veterans. Our collaborative team is composed of super-talented ninjas who are passionate about their craft.
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