Software Engineer

Our client is a profitable, fully-remote fintech and travel startup building a next-generation premium banking and rewards ecosystem for affluent customers. They're seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure, reliability, and security that everything they build runs on. This is a high-autonomy role for an engineer ready to define a function from the ground up, setting technical direction and taking work from concept through production as the company scales.

Role

• Own and unify the platform and infrastructure powering core products and services, driving toward infrastructure-as-code over time.
• Build the tooling, paved roads, and self-service workflows that let engineers ship quickly and safely.
• Own CI/CD and release automation, keeping the path to production fast, reliable, and observable.
• Own feature-flag, configuration, and secrets infrastructure, along with the reliability of background-job, caching, and queue systems (Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ).
• Improve observability and operational health through structured logging, error monitoring, and APM, and share in the on-call rotation for platform and infrastructure services.
• Own the platform's security guardrails, including secrets management, IAM and access control, PCI/PII data handling, and vulnerability management.
• Own and automate compliance and audit readiness (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, partner security reviews), coordinating external auditors and making the process repeatable.

Essential Skills

• 6+ years of professional engineering experience with a strong platform, infrastructure, or backend focus.
• Deep, hands-on AWS experience (EKS/Kubernetes, EC2, Lambda, RDS) in high-availability production environments.
• Strong CI/CD and release-engineering background, with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Comfort working in a Python/Django codebase (Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL), able to read and contribute to platform code.

Beneficial Skills

• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience with modern observability and monitoring tooling across logging, error tracking, and APM.
• Hands-on PCI-DSS or SOC 2 experience.
• Track record of building tooling that improves developer experience.

Competitive $250k base + equity.

If interested, reply and Goliath Partners will be in touch!