Staff Platform Engineer - Remote

Aktos; Colombia; A distancia; COP 220.304.755 - 293.739.673; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary with employee stock options

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401K access

Descripción de la vacante

A startup in the Fintech industry is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to lead backend development and DevOps responsibilities. You'll be instrumental in enhancing the AWS infrastructure and developing scalable solutions that support a crucial aspect of the financial ecosystem. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with Python, AWS, and Kubernetes, along with a strong focus on code quality. This remote-first company offers competitive salaries with equity, medical coverage, and a supportive team environment.

Formación

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of professional SRE/DevOps experience.
• Experience maintaining Kubernetes cluster via IaaC is preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Maintain AWS infrastructure and manage EKS.
• Develop scalable and maintainable backend features.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Postgres DB.

Conocimientos

Python

AWS

API/SFTP Integrations

Postgres

Kubernetes

Herramientas

Terraform

Descripción del empleo

Aktos is a seed-stage, Vertical SaaS Fintech startup looking for a Staff Platform Engineer (80% Backend Engineering + 20% DevOps/SRE) who will play a key role in building the Operating System that powers the $18B Credit Collections industry.

Credit Collectors play an overlooked yet integral part of our financial ecosystem. They help Consumers settle their debts and improve their credit scores— granting them clean states to start over. Collectors help critical businesses like doctor's offices and local governments, who deal with high payment default risk, secure their revenue streams and ensure their continued survival.

In truth, Collectors have incredibly interesting, multi-faceted jobs. They are often one part sales person, one part therapist, and one part detective in their mission to recover funds. At Aktos, we are building a modern software platform that caters to Collectors' unique workflows , and make the credit recovery process a more positive experience for all parties.

Our Team

Aktos was founded by seasoned Product and Engineering leaders who have worked at companies such as Zenefits, TikTok, Meta, LinkedIn, Google, Apple, Amazon, WeWork, Flatiron Health (acquired by Booking.com). We are experts at building, launching, and scaling word-class software platforms— rest assured, if you join us you will be working with and learning from the best.

Our Stack

• Frontend - ReactJS, Redux, RTK Query

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)
• Managing CI pipelines and runners.
• Setting up and managing alerting systems.
• Providing on-call support and guidance to other developers to triage issues.

Who You Are

• Python + DB Performance optimization [Required]
• API / SFTP Integrations (must have experience)

DevOps/SRE Expertise

• Will need to be comfortable with AWS, Maintaining EKS (Kubernetes on AWS).

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

Perks and Benefits

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

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