Platform Engineer

Summary

Join LiveFlow, a next-generation accounting and finance platform, and become a Platform Engineer. You will contribute to both ongoing maintenance and the parallelization of work across various projects, including data, billing, internal tooling, infrastructure, and security and compliance. Key responsibilities involve building and maintaining scalable internal infrastructure on AWS, improving internal tooling, maintaining secure systems, designing and extending data pipelines, and implementing infrastructure-as-code with Terraform. The ideal candidate possesses 3–5+ years of backend or platform engineering experience, strong backend engineering skills (functional programming preferred), relational database experience (ideally Postgres), and cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred). The role requires comfort with improving internal processes and tools and a willingness to take on varied projects. LiveFlow offers competitive base salary and equity, health insurance, a pension plan, tech equipment, a learning budget, 28 days of paid vacation, and more.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of experience as a backend or platform engineer
• Strong backend engineering skills (any language - we love functional programming)
• Strong relational database experience (ideally Postgres)
• Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• Enjoys improving internal processes and tools for both engineers and the wider business
• Happy to wear many hats and take on varied projects

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable internal infrastructure on AWS
• Improve internal tooling for engineers and cross-functional teams
• Maintain and optimize secure systems for billing, compliance, and user data
• Design and extend internal data pipelines
• Implement infrastructure-as-code with Terraform
• Occasionally wear a product or DevOps hat - whatever supports the wider team

Preferred Qualifications

• Elixir or other functional languages (e.g. Erlang, Clojure, Haskell, OCaml)
• Terraform
• Data pipelines at any scale
• Retool
• Frontend experience with React, Next.js, or Vercel

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and equity
• Health insurance
• Pension plan
• All the latest tech you need - MacBook, monitors, etc
• Monthly budget for books, learning, and conferences
• 28 days paid vacation