Description
Greenlight is the leading family fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids. We proudly serve more than 6 million parents and kids with our award-winning banking app for families. With Greenlight, parents can automate allowance, manage chores, set flexible spend controls, and invest for their family’s future. Kids and teens learn to earn, save, spend wisely, and invest.
At Greenlight, we believe every child should have the opportunity to become financially healthy and happy. It’s no small task, and that’s why we leap out of bed every morning to come to work. Because creating a better, brighter future for the next generation depends on it.
We are looking for a Staff Engineer to work within our Infrastructure organization. In this role, you will be responsible for driving technical excellence and engineering velocity by leading platform initiatives across cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, database operations, and developer experience. You will help shape Greenlight Engineering's technical foundation to enable rapid, reliable software delivery at scale. You will be building and improving engineering internal tooling, process, and standards with focus on mature automation to enable faster, more consistent, more reliable, and highly repeatable application delivery. We have moved fast to get to the point we are at today and there are certain components of our systems that need to be modernized. In this role, you will help us on that journey and support our teams as they build new features into our applications.
Technologies we use:
- Backend: Node.js, Kotlin, Java, Go
- REST, gRPC
- AWS
- MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis
- Kubernetes, Ambassador, Helm
What you will be doing:
- You will lead the technical vision and strategy for cloud infrastructure across the organization, establishing architectural principles and patterns that enable scale, reliability, and innovation
- You will drive architectural decisions that balance business needs, technical debt, and engineering velocity. You will work to mature the current platforms we have for internal tooling and development
- Establish technical standards and governance frameworks that enable autonomous team execution while maintaining operational excellence
- Drive cross-organizational initiatives that significantly improve engineering productivity and reliability
- Define and implement SLO frameworks and reliability principles that scale across multiple teams and services
- Provide technical mentorship to senior engineers across cloud, reliability, and platform engineering
- Lead technical design reviews and architecture discussions that shape major infrastructure, security and product initiatives
- Partner with Engineering Leadership to maintain a technical roadmap that moves our teams forward incrementally and continuously in the right direction
- Designing software and systems as well as being hands on writing code about 25% of the time
What you should bring:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 12+ years of experience in engineering and technical hands-on roles
- Prior experience working in a high-growth stage company building and architecting SAAS products and solutions
- The ability to provide technical insight and overall direction on projects from concept to delivery
- Excellent communication skills, this is a highly collaborative position and you will need to communicate effectively to multiple audiences
- Exemplary technical and operational skills. Ideally a development background working with Node.js, Java, or Go as well as architecture experience designing distributed systems and breaking apart monolithic systems
Work perks at Greenlight:
- Medical, dental, vision, and HSA match
- Paid life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
- Traditional 401k with company match and Roth IRA
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid company holidays and pop-up bonus holidays
- Mental health resources
- Professional development stipend
- 1:1 financial planners
- Fertility healthcare
- 100% paid parental and caregiving leave, plus cleaning service and meals during your leave
- Flexible WFH, both remote and in-office opportunities
- Fully stocked kitchen, catered lunches, and occasional in-office happy hours
- Employee resource groups
Our stance on salaries:
Greenlight provides a competitive compensation package with a market-based approach to pay and will vary depending on your location, experience and skill set. The total compensation package for this position will also include a discretionary performance bonus, equity rewards, medical benefits, 401K match, and more. Greenlight conducts continuous compensation evaluations across departments and geographies to ensure we are keeping our pay current and competitive.
The estimated base pay range for this position in (NY, CA, WA): $175,000- 225,000
The estimated base pay range for this position in (CO): $175,000- 195,000
Who we are:
It takes a special team to aim for a never-been-done-before mission like ours. We’re looking for people who love working together because they know it makes us stronger, people who look to others and ask, “How can I help?” and then “How can we make this even better?” If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and help parents raise a financially smart generation, apply to join our team.
Greenlight is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on age, race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including pregnancy, childbirth, or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth), genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
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