Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Synctera's platform team as a Software Engineer and contribute to the development and enhancement of our FinTech infrastructure. You will collaborate with product teams, design and maintain Google Cloud and CI/CD infrastructure, develop services in Go, and solve complex engineering problems. This high-autonomy role requires experience with Go, Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, and infrastructure-as-code tools. You will work directly with a broad range of product and engineering teams, acting as an escalation point for infrastructure issues. Synctera offers a comprehensive benefits package including 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision, 401k/RRSP matching, unlimited PTO, and generous parental leave. The role is fully remote but requires US or Canadian residency and authorization to work.

Requirements

• Experience with Go or a comparable structured and opinionated language
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and related cloud-native technologies like Argo and Istio
• Experience with monitoring and alerting platform tools such as Prometheus, Alertmanager & Grafana
• Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider, preferably Google Cloud

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the product team and engineers to understand financial services challenges and develop effective solutions
• Help define and drive Synctera’s infrastructure and developer experience roadmap
• Design, enhance, and maintain Synctera's Google Cloud and CI/CD infrastructure
• Develop services and utilities in Go
• Solve engineering problems as part of a small team
• Work across engineering teams to build top-tier platform tooling and enhance the developer experience
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure platform stability
• Identify and implement cleaner, more efficient solutions to technical problems
• Advocate for modern infrastructure and development best practices, fostering knowledge-sharing across the team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Python / GitLab APIs / Google Cloud APIs / Postgres
• Familiarity with security compliance frameworks (PCI, SOC 2, SOC 1)
• Experience being a part of early-stage, fast-moving engineering teams

Benefits

• 100% employer paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for US and Canadian employees and dependents
• Employer contribution to HSA for US employees
• Annual HCSA and generous extended health care coverage for Canadian employees and dependents
• 401(k) for US employees and RRSP for Canadian employees
• Mental health resources available for all employees
• Unlimited paid time off
• Generous paid new parent leave program
• Home office setup stipend
• Stock options program for all employees
• Growth potential and opportunity to have a significant impact at an early stage of our company's journey
• Working alongside a skilled and passionate team