Remote Senior Infrastructure Engineer for Scalable Payments

Revley, Llc; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

Revley is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer (independent contractor with a path to full-time) to own the distributed systems, data architecture, and observability that power the payments platform. You will work directly with founders and a small senior team on systems moving real money daily.

This senior, high-ownership role requires designing and operating production infrastructure end-to-end, making sound architectural decisions independently, and ensuring reliability and performance under

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

Job description

Revley is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer (independent contractor with a path to full-time) to own the distributed systems, data architecture, and observability that power the payments platform. You will work directly with founders and a small senior team on systems moving real money daily.

This senior, high-ownership role requires designing and operating production infrastructure end-to-end, making sound architectural decisions independently, and ensuring reliability and performance under