Staff Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Aktos, a seed-stage Fintech startup, as a Staff Platform Engineer and play a key role in building the operating system for the $18B Credit Collections industry. You will be responsible for maintaining AWS infrastructure, developing scalable backend features and APIs, monitoring databases, and managing CI pipelines. This role requires 5+ years of software development experience and 2+ years of SRE/DevOps experience with expertise in Python, Django, and AWS. Aktos offers competitive salary, stock options, benefits, and a remote-first work environment. The team is composed of seasoned leaders from top tech companies. You'll be working with a modern tech stack including ReactJS, Redux, Django, and Kubernetes.

Requirements

• 5+ Years of Professional Software Development Experience
• 2+ Years of Professional SRE/DevOps Experience
• Professional experience maintaining/enhancing Kubernetes cluster via IaaC [Terraform experience preferred]
• Professional experience with Python (2+ years required)
• Strong fundamental understanding and usage of a RDBMS [Postgres preferred]
• In-depth knowledge and hands on experience with AWS
• Solid engineering fundamentals and passion for high quality code
• Product intuition, user empathy, ability to make sound UX decisions
• Strong work ethic, end-to-end ownership mentality

Responsibilities

• Maintaining our AWS infrastructure
• Scalable & Maintainable Backend Feature Development [Python Experience is Required]
• Scalable & Maintainable API/SFTP Integrations [Experience is Required]
• Monitoring and troubleshooting Postgres DB (adding/removing indexes, partitioning/sharding)
• Maintaining developer environments
• Managing CI pipelines and runners
• Setting up and managing alerting systems
• Providing on-call support and guidance to other developers to triage issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Terraform experience
• Postgres

Benefits

• Competitive salary with employee stock options, bonus and access to a 401K
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Remote-first company