Platform Core Engineer: Scale Resilient Fintech Infrastructure

Felix Technologies, Inc.

Seattle (WA)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Stock options
Annual bonus
Health, dental, and vision plans
401(k) with employer match
Hybrid working model
Continuous learning opportunities
Unlimited PTO
Paid parental leave
Growth opportunities

Job summary

Félix in Seattle is seeking a Platform Core engineer to own foundational services and infrastructure powering our fintech products. You will identify bottlenecks, improve system efficiency, and ensure availability while balancing rapid delivery with solid engineering principles.

The ideal candidate enjoys solving distributed systems problems, mentors others, and helps scale payments, disbursements, and compliance-related platforms.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years as a Software Engineer in a fast-paced fintech or similar.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and optimize foundational microservices and infrastructure.
  • Improve resilience with monitoring and automated recovery.
  • Identify bottlenecks and improve scalability and performance.
  • Collaborate with product, operations, compliance, and others.
  • Mentor junior developers and promote best practices.
  • Leverage user feedback and analytics to refine platform.

Skills

Distributed systems
Platform architecture
Microservices
Mentorship
System design
Performance optimization
Fintech domain awareness
Security & compliance
Collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes
Terraform
NewRelic
PagerDuty
Python
Flask
FastAPI
REST APIs
Redis
SQL
gRPC
Google Cloud
BigQuery

Job description

Félix in Seattle is seeking a Platform Core engineer to own foundational services and infrastructure powering our fintech products. You will identify bottlenecks, improve system efficiency, and ensure availability while balancing rapid delivery with solid engineering principles.

The ideal candidate enjoys solving distributed systems problems, mentors others, and helps scale payments, disbursements, and compliance-related platforms.

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