Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer
Slash Financial is a financial technology company offering a business-finance platform. It provides business banking, corporate cards, stablecoin payments, treasury, working capital, invoicing, global USD accounts, and bill pay for businesses across industries.
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About Slash Financial
Slash Financial provides an integrated business-finance platform designed around industry-specific workflows. Its offerings include business banking and checking, Visa corporate charge cards with spend controls, ACH and wire payments, invoicing, treasury, working capital through partners, accounting and expense-management tools, analytics, multi-entity management, and read/write API access. It also supports stablecoin payments, allowing eligible businesses to send and receive USDC and USDT and convert between fiat and crypto. Slash serves startups, enterprises, e-commerce businesses, agencies, contractors, affiliate marketers, healthcare businesses, Web3 companies, wholesalers, and travel agencies.
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About the Role
You'll own and scale the foundation of a fast-growing banking platform, keeping systems reliable, secure, and fast while building the tooling and infrastructure that lets the rest of the team move quickly without breaking things. You'll work across the cloud stack (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes), define the infrastructure roadmap, and own critical decisions around performance, observability, security, and deployment, helping the company serve billions of dollars in business spend reliably and securely.
Requirements
- 2-3+ years of experience shipping high-quality infrastructure for critical, high-availability systems
- Production experience in AWS (EKS, ALB, MSK, ElastiCache, S3, WAF, VPC networking)
- Proficiency in TypeScript or another object-oriented language
- An ability to think through internal engineering requirements and come up with high-impact ways to quickly unblock teams
- Deep experience in one or more of: large-scale distributed SQL database administration (e.g. CockroachDB, PostgreSQL), real-time workflow and queue systems (e.g. Temporal), container orchestration and service infrastructure (Kubernetes/EKS, load balancing, ingress, service mesh)
Responsibilities
- Influence and implement the next generation of the database, real-time workflow, and container orchestration infrastructure
- Scale and evolve the Kubernetes (EKS) platform, CockroachDB clusters, Kafka (MSK), Temporal workflows, and ElastiCache Redis through hypergrowth
- Work across engineering to introduce and scale best practices with cloud-native technologies like AWS ALB, WAF, Route 53, OpenSearch, S3, and Vercel
- Build and maintain abstractions within Terraform and Pulumi to simplify architecture, increase velocity, and push ownership to product teams
- Improve the speed and reliability of the CI/CD pipeline
- Find solutions to the toughest scaling, performance, and low-latency problems across a monolithic deployment serving burst financial traffic
Benefits
- Comprehensive health + benefits plan
- Unlimited PTO
