Infrastructure Engineer

Glint Tech Solutions; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Glint Tech Solutions in Palo Alto is seeking multiple Software Engineers to join a fast-growing infrastructure team. You will build and maintain cloud infrastructure powering a fintech platform, design scalable backend services, and improve deployment tooling.

Ideal candidates have 1–4 years of experience, strong TypeScript, and experience with backend systems, cloud platforms, and performance optimization. You will collaborate across teams to raise reliability and developer experience.

Qualifications

• 1–4 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and at least one additional backend language.
• Experience building or supporting backend infrastructure or core platform services.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and distributed/event-driven systems.
• Experience with system scaling, performance optimization, caching, and backend integrations.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure powering a fintech platform.
• Improve developer experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, monitoring, and automation.
• Design scalable backend systems and platform services for reliability and performance.
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve system resiliency.
• Collaborate across teams to establish infrastructure best practices and maintain high engineering standards.

Skills

1–4 years experience

TypeScript

Backend programming

System design

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

Temporal.io

Honeycomb

GitHub Codespaces

AI-assisted tooling

Job description

We're hiring multiple Software Engineers to join a fast-growing engineering team building the infrastructure behind a mission-critical fintech platform. If you enjoy solving large-scale backend and infrastructure challenges while enabling other engineers to ship faster, we'd love to talk.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure that powers a production platform processing critical financial transactions.
• Improve developer experience through better CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, monitoring, and automation.
• Design scalable backend systems and platform services with reliability and performance in mind.
• Troubleshoot production issues, improve system resiliency, and help prevent future incidents.
• Collaborate closely with engineers across the company to establish infrastructure best practices and maintain high engineering standards.

What We're Looking For

Must Have

• 1–4 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and at least one additional backend programming language.
• Experience building or supporting backend infrastructure or core platform services.
• Experience with one or more of the following:
  • Cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
  • Distributed or event-driven systems
  • System scaling and performance optimization
  • Caching technologies
  • Backend integrations
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals and system design.

Nice to Have

• AWS infrastructure experience.
• PostgreSQL or database infrastructure experience.
• Experience with microservices or GraphQL APIs.
• Cross-team platform or developer tooling experience.
• Personal projects, open-source contributions, or strong passion for engineering.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• TypeScript
• PostgreSQL
• GraphQL
• Temporal.io
• Honeycomb
• GitHub Codespaces
• Modern AI-assisted development tools

Ideal Candidate

• Enjoys working on infrastructure, scalability, and reliability.
• Comfortable owning production systems and solving challenging technical problems.
• Curious, collaborative, and eager to learn new technologies.
• Has experience beyond a single tech stack and enjoys building developer tools and platform capabilities.