Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join SmartAsset's Platform Engineering team and help build the platform that empowers our engineers to deliver software and gain data insights. As a Platform Engineer, you will design and develop infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools. You will collaborate with data and engineering teams to solve problems and improve the platform. You will work on a small but essential team, making critical decisions and improvements. You will have the opportunity to work with talented individuals and see the impact of your work. SmartAsset offers a remote-first work environment and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a Software Engineering role
• Comprehensive DevOps experience in building, shipping, scaling, and operating Java web applications and services in AWS
• Experience designing complex cloud solutions based on AWS and the ability to plan the implementation of these solutions
• Demonstrated critical and strategic thinking about business, products, and technical challenges to stakeholders
• Strong hands-on experience in AWS
• A strong grasp of modern web application architecture
• Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code in AWS with Terraform
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with familiarity working in an agile environment
• Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment and the ability to be cross-functional
• Passion for having engineers as customers and for building the tools that enable other engineering teams to meet their objectives
• A holistic, system-based mindset: an obsessive focus on the near and far-term problems in scope and the strategic architecture that will support teams in solving these problems
• Dedication to the documentation of the systems, architectures, technical decisions and capabilities that our product delivery teams rely on to succeed
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Information Technology or Computer Science

Responsibilities

• Empower product delivery teams to execute independently while meeting a high bar of excellence
• Identify and deliver capabilities as part of an engineering platform that help product delivery teams to succeed
• Design and iterate on infrastructure-as-code templates and software libraries that help engineering teams move faster, including for applications, databases, edge infrastructure, AWS account infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability
• Shape the DevOps experience at SmartAsset, bundling up telemetry, tracing, logs, dashboards and alerting in a coherent way that supports strong collaboration and rapid issue resolution
• Engage in a highly collaborative team environment where you leverage your experience to guide teams on cloud architecture, scaling patterns, development opportunities, cost savings, and vulnerabilities
• Design, develop and integrate mature DevOps pipelines, including build automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), security, observability, and alerting
• Develop a strategic roadmap and a strong agile backlog that supports adoption of cloud best practices and enables high-quality product delivery

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in an AWS cloud engineer / DevOps role
• Exposure to the Platform Engineering discipline where your customers are other engineers
• Experience designing complex cloud solutions based on AWS and the ability to plan the implementation of these solutions
• Planning and executing complex application and database migrations
• CI/CD automation and template design using AWS CodePipeline and related tooling
• Team mentorship, technical leadership by influence
• Experience rolling out the Cloudwatch observability stack across an engineering organization
• Docker-based deployment with ECS
• Cloud Security Best Practices
• Incident, release, problem, and change management processes
• Documenting and iterating the architectures of large software systems
• PostgreSQL RDS

Benefits

• All roles at SmartAsset are currently and will remain remote - flexibility to work from anywhere in the contiguous US
• Medical, Dental, Vision - multiple packages available based on your individualized needs
• Life/AD&D Insurance - basic coverage at 100% company paid, additional supplemental available
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• FSA: Medical and Dependant Care
• 401K
• Equity packages for each role
• Time Off: PTO, 3 Month Paid Parental Leave, Secondary Caregiver Leave
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Employee Resource Groups supporting our underrepresented communities
• Pet Insurance
• Home Office Stipend