Credit Genie is a mobile-first financial wellness platform designed to help individuals take control of their financial future. We leverage artificial intelligence to provide personalized insights and are building a financial ecosystem by offering tools and services that provide instant access to cash, and building credit. Our goal is to empower every customer to achieve long-term financial stability.
Founded in 2019 by Ed Harycki, former Swift Capital Founder (acquired by PayPal in 2017). Backed by Khosla Ventures and led by industry pioneers from companies such as; PayPal, Square, and Cash App, we are well positioned to build the future of inclusive finance through cutting-edge technology and customer-centric solutions.
Overview
The Platform team owns the infrastructure Credit Genie runs on: the AWS environment, deployments, observability, and the SOC 2 and PCI-DSS controls that keep customer financial data safe. We're also building the AI infrastructure our engineers use every day. When this team does its job well, engineers ship without worrying about what's underneath them and audits find real controls instead of gaps.
As a Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer on this team, you'll own reliability and deployments across our AWS and Kubernetes environment, take real ownership of our compliance work, and help build the AI infrastructure and new product foundations we're investing in next. This is a rare chance to join a fast-growing fintech startup where your work directly protects the systems our users depend on.
What You'll do
Core reliability and infrastructure
Own reliability, deployments, observability, and incident response across our AWS environment (Kubernetes/EKS, Datadog, CI/CD, networking), supporting backend, mobile, data, ML, and AI engineering teams.
Maintain, optimize, and improve our AWS infrastructure footprint to align with industry best standards and scalability requirements.
Own our infrastructure-as-code stack (Terraform/OpenTofu). Hands-on AWS CDK experience is a strong plus.
Reduce our dependence on any single vendor by favoring open standards and swappable tooling where it makes sense.
Compliance
Take real, hands-on ownership of SOC 2 and PCI-DSS work. Not just documenting controls, but building and operating the systems that make them genuinely true in production.
Partner directly with our security function to close real gaps as they surface, including network segmentation and traffic inspection.
CI/CD and deployments
Make deploys and rollbacks easier, more predictable, and more consistent across the org.
Consolidate and speed up CI/CD pipelines that currently span multiple tools and are evolving to support services in TypeScript/Node, Python, and Kotlin as our engineering team’s specialized use cases grow.
AI infrastructure and product builds
Build and extend our internal AI infrastructure: the gateway/middleware layer, MCP integrations, the knowledge graph, and tooling that makes AI use across engineering cheaper, faster, and more accurate.
Stand up greenfield infrastructure for new products, without inheriting our existing tech debt or migration constraints.
Across all of it
Share a real on-call rotation and absorb interrupt-driven support in a way that protects everyone's ability to also do focused project work.
Help us get more efficient and cost-effective as we scale, from investigation through implementation.
What We're Looking For
Core, non-negotiable
DevOps/SRE depth and a genuine backend engineering background. You've written and shipped real software, not only infrastructure code. We don't need you to build customer-facing features, but we need you to think like a software engineer when you design platform, tooling, and systems.
Strong hands-on AWS, plus production experience with observability/monitoring (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or similar), CI/CD, compute, and networking.
Experience managing Kubernetes clusters in multiple environments.
Experience with Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code tooling.
Experience at an early-stage startup where you built DevOps/infra from scratch, or at a company going through a growth stage where you had to scale it under real pressure.
Real willingness to own compliance work (SOC 2/PCI-DSS), not just support it.
Strongly preferred
Experience with AI/LLM tooling, MCP, model gateways, or internal developer platforms for AI.
Prior SOC 2 and/or PCI-DSS experience, ideally with a specific control or finding you helped remediate.
Exposure to security engineering.
Experience with AWS CDK (especially TypeScript).
Experience reducing vendor lock-in or migrating between data stores at scale (for example, NoSQL to relational).
Our goal is to provide a comprehensive offering of benefits and perks that promote better financial, mental, and physical wellness.
We believe working alongside each other in person is the best way to build a great product and foster a strong company culture. Our expectation is that employees are in the office five days a week, allowing for optimal collaboration, inclusivity, and productivity. At the same time, we understand that life happens and recognize the importance of flexibility. We are committed to supporting our employees when circumstances arise that require remote work or adjusted schedules. Our goal is to ensure everyone can effectively balance personal and professional responsibilities while maintaining our collaborative and productive environment.
Here are some highlights of our benefits and perks offerings, feel free to ask your recruiting partner for more details on our comprehensive offering for employees.
100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents on your first day of employment.
Receive up to $100 per month in fitness reimbursement or enjoy a complimentary full membership to LifeTime Fitness or Equinox.
401(k) with a 3.5% match and immediate vesting
Meal program available for both lunch and dinner
Pre-tax benefits, including a $1,000 HSA match
Life and accidental insurance
Flexible PTO
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience. Base salary is just one part of your total compensation and rewards package at Credit Genie. You may also be eligible to participate in the bonus and equity programs. You will also have access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, a 401(k) retirement plan with company match, short & long term disability insurance, life insurance, and flexible PTO along with many other benefits and perks.
Credit Genie is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer where we welcome and celebrate differences. We are committed to providing a workspace that is safe and inclusive, where everyone feels supported, connected, and inspired to do their best work. If you require any accommodations to participate in our recruitment process, please inform us of your needs when we contact you to schedule an interview.
Skills Required
- Genuine DevOps/SRE expertise with a backend software engineering background and experience shipping production software
- Strong hands-on AWS experience
- Production experience with observability or monitoring tools such as Datadog or OpenTelemetry
- Experience with CI/CD, compute, and networking
- Experience managing Kubernetes clusters in multiple environments
- Experience with Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Experience building DevOps or infrastructure from scratch at an early-stage startup, or scaling infrastructure during company growth
- Willingness to own SOC 2 and PCI-DSS compliance work hands-on
- Experience with AI or LLM tooling, MCP, model gateways, or internal AI developer platforms
- Prior SOC 2 or PCI-DSS experience, including remediation of a specific control or finding
- Exposure to security engineering
- AWS CDK experience, especially with TypeScript
- Experience reducing vendor lock-in or migrating between data stores at scale
Credit Genie Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Credit Genie and has not been reviewed or approved by Credit Genie.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered market-competitive for key roles, with employer-provided ranges visible on postings. Feedback suggests total compensation is viewed favorably relative to similar startups.
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Affordable Benefits — Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision—often including dependent coverage—reduce out-of-pocket costs. Feedback suggests coverage is positioned as a strong cost-value component of the package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting is consistently described in postings. This structure strengthens long-term savings as part of total rewards.
Credit Genie Insights
What We Do
Credit Genie takes a non-traditional approach to debt relief - we perform a holistic review of a consumer's financial situation to calculate the appropriate debt reduction. Lenders have more confidence in Credit Genie's evidence-based, data driven, debt relief solution which along with helping the borrower directly, also reduces the risk of a borrower's complete default, and vastly improves overall default rates in the debt industry. Led by founder Ed Harycki (former founder of Swift Capital / acquired by PayPal), Credit Genie is on a mission to help customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, fairness, and humanity to helping them resolve their personal debt matters. The US consumer debt market is over $1.5 trillion and growing, with tens of millions of households struggling to meet their financial obligations. The current market to resolve this problem is fragmented, lacks transparency, and is very costly to consumers and their lenders. Credit Genie is on a mission to fix this problem. We are building the first technology-based solution that allows borrowers to work directly with their lenders to find solutions that are fair to all parties. Through innovative debt relief solutions and its free cash advance app, Credit Genie is helping consumers tackle their unsecured debt burdens. Credit Genie is also developing educational programs to help ensure that consumers can better manage their financial affairs and achieve a healthier financial standing.
