Software Engineer

HUG; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote United States

Comprehensive benefits

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

HUG is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer for the Platform team. This fully remote US role focuses on building scalable infrastructure, dev tooling and systems to accelerate engineering velocity.

You’ll own AWS infrastructure (Terraform/Pulumi), CI/CD (Buildkite) and Ephemeral PR environments, aiming for reliability and strong observability across the stack.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong platform/backend engineering background.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience across compute, networking, storage and security.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS infrastructure using Terraform and/or Pulumi.
• Build internal developer tooling and shared SDKs.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Buildkite).
• Create per-pull-request ephemeral environments.
• Improve platform observability, reliability and performance.
• Design systems around SLOs and auto-scaling.
• Solve scaling challenges across databases and distributed infra.
• Develop TS tooling to boost product engineers' productivity.
• Work with RDS / ElastiCache / MSK and CloudWatch/CloudTrail.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

AWS

CI/CD

Backend engineering

Developer tooling

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Buildkite

CloudWatch

Job description

Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Platform

Remote - United States | Full-time

We're working with a rapidly growing, AI-native technology company building the infrastructure behind the next generation of automated financial workflows.

The company has already powered more than $85B in transactions through its platform and is scaling rapidly. They're looking for a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to join their Platform team and help build the infrastructure, developer tooling and systems that enable engineers to ship faster, safer and more reliably.

This is a highly hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of infrastructure, backend engineering and developer experience.

The Role

You'll treat infrastructure as a product and work closely with engineering teams to improve developer velocity, reliability and scalability.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Owning and evolving AWS infrastructure using Terraform and/or Pulumi
• Building internal developer tooling, TypeScript libraries and shared SDKs
• Designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, including Buildkite
• Building per-pull-request ephmeral environments to make deployment fast and safe
• Improving platform observability, reliability and performance
• Designing systems around SLOs, auto-scaling and incident response
• Solving complex scaling challenges across databases, compute and distributed infrastructure
• Building backend TypeScript tooling that makes product engineers significantly more productive
• RDS / ElastiCache / MSK
• CloudWatch / CloudTrail

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong platform / infrastructure / backend engineering background
• Experience working at a high-growth technology company or startup
• Deep hands-on AWS experience across compute, networking, storage and security
• Strong Terraform and/or Pulumi experience
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD infrastructure
• Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills
• Comfortable making meaningful changes to backend codebases, not just managing infrastructure
• Experience with reliability engineering, including SLOs, error budgets and incident response
• Strong systems and infrastructure design skills
• Excellent written communication and ability to document complex systems
• A strong product mindset around developer experience and internal tooling

Nice to Have

• Experience building EPHEMERAL / per-PR environments
• Production observability experience with Datadog, CloudWatch, Sentry or distributed tracing
• Experience building internal platforms, CLIs, SDKs, code generators or developer frameworks
• Experience scaling high-throughput systems
• Experience at high-growth companies such as Stripe, Datadog, Cloudflare, Confluent, HashiCorp, OpenAI, Anthropic or similar environments

Why Join?

• AI-native company - building modern technology from the ground up rather than layering AI onto legacy systems
• Platform at the centre - your work directly impacts the productivity of the entire engineering organisation
• Significant growth - join during a major period of engineering expansion
• Challenging technical problems - work on infrastructure operating at meaningful scale
• Fully remote - work remotely across the US
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), HSA/FSA and flexible time off

If you're a Senior or Staff Engineer who loves building infrastructure but still wants to write code, build developer tooling and solve difficult backend problems, this could be a great opportunity to make a significant impact.