Staff Platform Engineer - Remote

Aktos; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Aktos, a seed-stage fintech startup, is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to enhance their software platform for the credit collections industry. This role focuses on backend engineering and DevOps, requiring expertise in Python, AWS, and Kubernetes. Join a team of seasoned professionals to build impactful solutions in a remote-first environment, with competitive compensation and benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary with employee stock options

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Access to a 401K

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of professional SRE/DevOps experience.
• Experience maintaining Kubernetes cluster via IaaC.

Responsibilities

• Maintain AWS infrastructure and manage CI pipelines.
• Develop scalable backend features and API/SFTP integrations.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Postgres DB.

Skills

Python

DB Performance optimization

API / SFTP Integrations

AWS

Kubernetes

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Aktos is a seed-stage, Vertical SaaS Fintech startup looking for a Staff Platform Engineer (80% Backend Engineering + 20% DevOps/SRE) who will play a key role in building the Operating System that powers the $18B Credit Collections industry.

Credit Collectors play an overlooked yet integral part of our financial ecosystem. They help Consumers settle their debts and improve their credit scores— granting them clean states to start over. Collectors help critical businesses like doctor's offices and local governments, who deal with high payment default risk, secure their revenue streams and ensure their continued survival.

In truth, Collectors have incredibly interesting, multi-faceted jobs. They are often one part sales person, one part therapist, and one part detective in their mission to recover funds. At Aktos, we are building a modern software platform that caters to Collectors' unique workflows , and make the credit recovery process a more positive experience for all parties.

Our Team

Aktos was founded by seasoned Product and Engineering leaders who have worked at companies such as Zenefits, TikTok, Meta, LinkedIn, Google, Apple, Amazon, WeWork, Flatiron Health (acquired by Booking.com). We are experts at building, launching, and scaling word-class software platforms— rest assured, if you join us you will be working with and learning from the best.

Our Stack:

• Frontend - ReactJS, Redux, RTK Query

Responsibilities

• Maintaining our AWS infrastructure
• Scalable & Maintainable Backend Feature Development [Python Experience is Required]
• Scalable & Maintainable API/SFTP Integrations [Experience is Required]
• Monitoring and troubleshooting Postgres DB (adding/removing indexes, partitioning/sharding)
• Managing CI pipelines and runners.
• Setting up and managing alerting systems.
• Providing on-call support and guidance to other developers to triage issues.

Who You Are

• Python + DB Performance optimization [Required]
• API / SFTP Integrations (must have experience)

DevOps/SRE Expertise:

• Will need to be comfortable with AWS, Maintaining EKS (Kubernetes on AWS).

Requirements

• 5+ Years of Professional Software Development Experience
• 2+ Years of Professional SRE/DevOps Experience
• Professional experience maintaining/enhancing Kubernetes cluster via IaaC [Terraform experience preferred].
• Professional experience with Python (2+ years required)
• Strong fundamental understanding and usage of a RDBMS [Postgres preferred]
• In-depth knowledge and hands on experience with AWS
• Solid engineering fundamentals and passion for high quality code
• Product intuition, user empathy, ability to make sound UX decisions
• Strong work ethic, end-to-end ownership mentality

Perks and Benefits:

• Competitive salary with employee stock options, bonus and access to a 401K
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Remote-first company

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