Infrastructure Engineer, Payments Platform (Remote/NYC)

Revley; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Revley is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to own the distributed systems, data architecture, and observability that power our payment platform. This independent contractor role offers the potential to convert to full-time and will involve close collaboration with founders and a small senior team on mission-critical systems that move real money daily.

The role demands deep expertise in event-driven architectures, production infra, and reliable design under load, with ownership from

Qualifications

• Five or more years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and operating production infrastructure.
• Strong backend engineering skills, with deep experience in Node.js and TypeScript (NestJS or a comparable framework)
• Deep experience with relational databases, including SQL, PostgreSQL, schema design, and query optimization
• Experience designing distributed systems and event-driven architectures
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EventBridge, SQS, ECS, and CloudWatch
• Working knowledge of queueing, idempotency, retries, and asynchronous processing patterns
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and managing deployment infrastructure
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently in early-stage or high-velocity environments
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Design and operate the event-driven backbone that connects payment flows, webhooks, and asynchronous processing
• Own database architecture, schema design, and query performance on PostgreSQL for high-throughput transactional workloads
• Build and tune queueing, retries, idempotency, and scheduling for billing and capture pipelines
• Stand up observability - metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting - so we catch problems before customers do
• Design CI/CD pipelines and deployment infrastructure for safe, frequent releases
• Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS and Vercel, with an eye on cost, scaling, and resilience
• Make architectural decisions on distributed systems and document them clearly for the team
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering best practices

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL

SQL

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

On-call & incident response

CI/CD pipelines

Communication skills

Tools

EventBridge

SQS

ECS

CloudWatch

NestJS

Job description

Revley is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to own the distributed systems, data architecture, and observability that power our payment platform. This independent contractor role offers the potential to convert to full-time and will involve close collaboration with founders and a small senior team on mission-critical systems that move real money daily.

The role demands deep expertise in event-driven architectures, production infra, and reliable design under load, with ownership from