About the Role: 

By applying to this position you have an incredible opportunity to make an impact within a growing FinTech company. As a Senior Software Engineer with Sezzle, you will work with a highly-motivated team to tackle interesting and challenging problems across multiple areas of the organization. Your experience and guidance will help other members of the team level-up their own skills as well.

In this backend focused role, you will work closely with stakeholders from Product, Support and the business. You’ll also partner with other engineering teams to provide high-quality, scalable, and innovative solutions to internal and customer problems. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include designing, developing, and delivering new features, as well as unblocking and mentoring your teammates.

This role has both an internal and external focus, your contributions will make a meaningful difference in the day-to-day lives of your peers at Sezzle, enhancing their ability to support our business and customers, and you will have opportunities to take any feedback and iterate.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Design software applications and features in Golang and React
• Help build out a distributed architecture, creating solutions that work within it, maintaining consistency while scaling highly
• Coordinate with internal company stakeholders to design market winning products
• Develop and collect metrics to drive continuous improvement of existing products
• Deliver high quality features which can be tested and adheres to reporting standards
• As needed, lead small development teams to bring a project to market
• Mentor other engineering teammates to help elevate their experience and knowledge

Minimum Requirements

• At least 7 years of full-stack software engineering experience
• Experience bringing new ideas and building consensus on the path forward
• Experience with building and serving REST APIs using Go and Java Python or a similar language.
• Experience working in a distributed, cloud-based architecture, with either design patterns like transactional outboxes, or queuing tools like RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka
• BS in Computer Science or similar degree, or equivalent work experience.

Ideal Skills & Experience (the more the better)

• Experience with SQL based RDMS through an ORM tool
• Comfortable using observability platforms like Prometheus, or vendor solutions like NewRelic or Datadog to instrument your code for production monitoring and alerting.
• DevOps experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with containerized micro-service architecture deployed with Kubernetes on AWS
• Demonstrated history of delivering commercial APIs and web applications
• A clear record of getting products to market and prioritizing solutions and improvements based on stakeholder/customer feedback.

About You: 

• A+ character. We are team-first here at Sezzle. 
• A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build. 
• An excellent communicator. 
• A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things. 
• Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others. 

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome?

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire. 

Equal Employment Opportunity: Sezzle Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other legally protected status. Sezzle recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting our mission.

Compensation:

For this senior development role, with 8+ years of experience, the compensation range is $4,600 - $7,500 USD per month. This range acknowledges the extensive expertise, leadership capabilities, and significant contributions expected at this level, offering a competitive salary to reflect the value of advanced skills and experience.

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Who Are You

We seek a highly skilled and experienced Cloud Platform Architect to join our dynamic and growing Cloud Platform team. As a Cloud Platform Architect, you will play a crucial role in strengthening and expanding the core of our cloud infrastructure. We want you to lead the way in scaling our cloud infrastructure for our customers, engineers, and data science teams. You will work alongside talented cloud platform and software engineers and architects to envision how all cloud infrastructure will evolve to support the expansion of Signifyd’s core products. The ideal candidate must: 

• Effectively communicate complex problems by tailoring the message to the audience and presenting it clearly and concisely. 
• Balance multiple perspectives, disagree, and commit when necessary to move key company decisions and critical priorities forward.
• Understand the inner workings of Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) such as AWS, GCP, and Azure. Able to understand networking and security concepts core and most relevant within the space.
• Ability to work independently in a dynamic environment and proactively approach problem-solving.
• Be committed to achieving positive business outcomes via automation and enablement efforts, reducing costs, and improving operational excellence.
• Be an example for fellow engineers by showcasing customer empathy, creativity, curiosity, and tenacity.
• Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to innovate and adapt to fast-paced environments.
• Design and build clear, understandable, simple, clean, and scalable solutions.
• Champion an Agile and ‘DevOps’ mindset across the organization.

What You'll Do

• Modernize Signifyd’s Cloud Platform to scale for security, cost, operational excellence, reliability, and performance, working closely with Engineering and Data Science teams across Signifyd’s R&D group.
• Create and deliver a technology roadmap focused on advancing our cloud performance capabilities, supporting our real-time fraud protection and prevention via our core products.
• Work alongside Architects, Software Engineers, ML Engineers, and Data Scientists to develop innovative big data processing solutions for scaling our core product for eCommerce fraud prevention.
• Take full ownership of our Cloud Platform evolution to support low-latency, high-quality, high-scale decisioning for Signifyd’s flagship product.

• Architect, deploy, and optimize Cloud Solutions to evolve our technology stack, including Multi-Account strategy, best practices around data access, IAM and security rules, and the best approaches for optimized and secure access to our infrastructure.
• Implement Engineering Enablement automation and best-of-breed solutions for Developer Tooling to support Elite DORA metrics measurements and optimal Engineering Experience.
• Mentor and coach fellow engineers on the team, fostering an environment of growth and continuous improvement.
• Identify and address gaps in team capabilities and processes to enhance team efficiency and success.

What You'll Need

• Ideally has 10-15+ years in cloud infrastructure engineering and automation, including at least five years of experience as a cloud engineering architect or lead. Have successfully navigated the challenges of working with large-scale cloud environments encompassing millions of dollars of computing costs and many petabytes of data storage and process.
• Deep understanding of best practices and current trends in cloud providers, are comfortable working with multi-terabyte datasets, and skilled in high-scale data ingestion, transformation, and distributed processing; experience in understanding Apache Spark or Databricks is a plus.
• Deep understanding of Container-based systems such as Kubernetes (k8s), Docker, ECS, EKS, GKE, and others.
• Deep understanding of Networking concepts such as DNS / Route53, ELB/ALB, Networking load balancing, IAM rules, VPC peering and data connectivity, NAT gateways, Network bridge technology such as Megaport, and others.
• Experience converting existing Cloud infrastructure to serverless architecture patterns (AWS Lambda, Kinesis, Aurora, etc.), deploying via Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS Cloud Formation / CDK.
• Hands-on expertise in data technologies with proficiency in technologies such as Spark, Airflow, Databricks, AWS services (SQS, Kinesis, etc.), and Kafka. Understand the trade-offs of various architectural approaches and recommend solutions suited to our needs.
• Executed the planning of product and infrastructure software releases
• Experience in developing, deploying, and managing CI/CD developer tooling like AWS Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline, JetBrains TeamCity, and GitHub Enterprise.
• Understanding how to appropriately deploy, integrate, and maintain Developer build and scanning tools such as Develocity Gradle Enterprise, Sonarqube, Maven, Snyk, CyCode, and others.
• Deep knowledge of best practices around Logging, Monitoring, and Observability tools such as AWS Cloudwatch, Datadog, Loggly, and others.
• Demonstrable ability to lead and mentor engineers, fostering their growth and development. 
• You have successfully partnered with Product and Engineering teams to lead through strategic initiatives.
• Commitment to quality: you take pride in delivering work that excels in accuracy, performance, and reliability, setting a high standard for the team and the organization.

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Benefits in our US offices:

• Discretionary Time Off Policy (Unlimited!)
• 401K Match
• Stock Options
• Annual Performance Bonus or Commissions
• Paid Parental Leave (12 weeks)
• On-Demand Therapy for all employees & their dependents
• Dedicated learning budget through Learnerbly
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Company Social Events
• Signifyd Swag

We want to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

The Role

In this role, you'll be given lots of responsibility and the opportunity to have true ownership as we build out the product. This is a unique opportunity to use your engineering powers to make a direct impact in people's lives. We need a Staff Site Reliability Engineer who is enthusiastic about building reliable, scalable, and flexible systems to support our growing team, product, and user base. You'll work with other engineers to reliably release and maintain services, and help define and meet internal and customer-facing SLA's and SLO's.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Hawaii.

What You’ll Do

• Manage and orchestrate Cloud Resource (AWS) configuration using Infrastructure As Code (Terraform) to empower engineering staff to embrace a DevOps culture of Self Service Ownership
• Develop and govern Observability (Datadog) best practices for tracking platform performance and health trends to meet customer SLAs and lead technical decisions with strong supporting evidence
• Create solutions that dynamically scale based on demand with enough flexibility to pivot for fast changing project requirements while maintaining a balance of good versus perfect
• Provide strong and consistent communication updates on technical progress or blockers to keep stakeholders informed while additionally creating appropriate documentation on technical design to spread knowledge and reduce information silos
• Participate and respond to 24/7 on-call critical alerts and follow documented incident investigation procedures to reestablish customer facing feature availability
• Maintain HIPAA, GDPR, SOC-2 compliance and general security through best practice implementation

Who You Are

• At least 8+ years of experience in software engineering with 4+ years experience in DevOps
• Cloud Provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) experience on managing resources through Infrastructure As Code (Terraform) 
• Container Orchestration (ECS or K8s) experience to confidently build, test, and release containerized applications for multiple environments and regions
• Knowledge of Observability best practices across common cloud resources (EC2, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, Eventbridge) with experience on rolling out enhancements across a distributed platform with scale in mind
• Experience with shell scripting for *nix systems
• Experience with Networking for web applications
• Effective at communicating ideas through writing and diagramming
• Comfortable working with a distributed development and ops team
• Familiarity with AWS: ECS and cloud hosting, Gitlab: CI/CD, Python: Django, Flask, aiohttp, Bash, Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, Monitoring: Datadog and Sentry, IaC: Terraform, Packer

Benefits

Fundamentals:

• Medical / Dental / Vision / Disability / Life Insurance 
• High Deductible Health Plan with Health Savings Account (HSA) option
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Access to coaches and therapists through Modern Health's platform
• Generous Time Off 
• Company-wide Collective Pause Days 

Family Support:

• Parental Leave Policy 
• Family Forming Benefit through Carrot
• Family Assistance Benefit through UrbanSitter

Professional Development:

• Professional Development Stipend

Financial Wellness:

• 401k
• Financial Planning Benefit through Origin

But wait there’s more…! 

• Annual Wellness Stipend to use on items that promote your overall well being 
• New Hire Stipend to help cover work-from-home setup costs
• ModSquad Community: Virtual events like active ERGs, holiday themed activities, team-building events and more
• Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement

Who are Tide:

At Tide, we’re on a mission to save businesses time and money. We’re the leading provider of UK SME business accounts and one of the fastest-growing FinTechs in the UK. Using the latest tech, we design solutions with SMEs in mind and our member-driven financial platform is transforming the business banking market. Not only do we offer our members business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly connected admin tools for businesses. 

Tide is about doing what you love. We’re looking for someone tojoin us on our exciting scale up journey and be a part of something special. We want passionate Tideans to drive innovation and help build a best-in-class platform to support our members. You will be comfortable in ambiguous situations and will be able to navigate the evolving FinTech environment. Imagine shaping how millions of Tide members discover and engage with business banking platforms and building this on a global scale. 

We’re the UK’s leading provider of smart current accounts for sole traders and small companies. We’re also on a mission to save business owners time and money on their banking and finance admin so they can get back to doing what they love - for too long, these customers have been under-served by the big banks.

Funding Options joined the Tide family in early 2023 to lead their Partner Credit Services offering. Through their panel of 120 leading lender partners, Funding Options supports UK SMEs to get the right finance in place so they can trade, plan and grow with confidence. Through their multi award-winning platform, Funding Cloud, they can effectively match customers to the right lender and finance product that best suits their needs in minutes with funding decisions in as little as 20 seconds, giving every customer a 5 Star experience whether successful or not, through our sheer professionalism and outstanding standard of customer service.

Our offices are in London - UK, Sofia - Bulgaria, Belgrade - Serbia and Hyderabad - India, where our teams are dedicated to our small business members; revolutionising business banking for SMEs. 

We’re scaling at speed with a focus on hiring talented individuals with a growth mindset and ownership mentality, who are able to juggle multiple and sometimes changing priorities. Our values show our commitment to working as one team, working collaboratively to take action and deliver results. Member first, we are passionate about our members and put them first. We are data-driven, we make decisions, creating insight using data.

We’re also one of LinkedIn’s top 10 hottest UK companies to work for.

What we’re looking for:

We’re looking for an experienced Backend Engineer with excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications or improving existing ones, we would like to meet you. 

As an Engineer at Tide, you’ll report directly to the People Manager and Staff Engineer (Functional) and work in a team of highly skilled Engineers.

You’ll work closely with our tech team to ensure system consistency and improve user experience. Ultimately, you should be able to develop and maintain functional and stable web applications to meet both the company’s and our customer’s needs.

We work in an agile fashion, small cross functional squads,  grouped under common domains owning the full lifecycle of some microservices in Tide’s service catalogue.

You’ll bring new ideas, and become an integral part of the process of continuously improving our product.  Outside of working in your squad you will discuss technical challenges, in our differentCommunities of Practice.

Our stack includes - Python, AWS (including Lambda, Fargate, EKS, SQS, SNS, SES and S3), Postgres, Google BigQuery, Terraform and Sentry.

As a Senior Python Engineer you’ll be: 

• Defining, owning and maintaining the services your team owns from our service catalogue that fall in one of our domains (you design it, you build it, you run it, you scale it globally)
• Working with the product team to select technology partners
• Work with backend engineers across multiple agile teams carefully dividing your time between design/refinement, implementation and mentoring other team members
• Regularly aligning your team’s vision and roadmap with the target architecture within your domain and to ensure the success of complex multi domain initiatives 
• Working closely with product owners, mobile & web engineers, data scientist and other business members to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions
• Making key contributions to our Community of Practice. You will apply your extensive experience on our problem domain and existing guidelines to become a true beacon of best practices among your fellow engineers 
• Career progression is as important to us as it is for you, and we, therefore, have put in place a Tide Growth Framework to guide you. With our expanding teams and business, we will encourage you to outgrow your initial responsibilities, if you so desire

What makes you a great fit: 

• Proven work experience as a Python Developer (working with this as a primary language)
• Basic understanding of software engineering fundamentals (SOLID, ACID, Testing)
• Hands-on experience with AWS and frameworks such as: Django, FastAPI and Flask
• Extensive experience integrating with or creating REST APIs
• (Desirable) Experience working with event driven microservice or message queues
• (Desirable) An understanding of Salesforce integrations
• Experience working in Scrum and following Agile development practises
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
• You’re passionate about learning every day and sharing your knowledge and experience every day
• Genuinely excited about supporting small businesses, in the UK and in global markets

What you’ll get in return: 

Make work, work for you! We are embracing new ways of working and support flexible working arrangements. With our Working Out of Office (WOO) policy our colleagues can work remotely from home or anywhere in their home country. Additionally, you can work from a different country for up to 90 days a year. Plus, you’ll get:

• Competitive salary 
• Self & Family Health Insurance
• Term & Life Insurance
• OPD Benefits
• Mental wellbeing through Plumm
• Learning & Development Budget
• WFH Setup allowance
• 25 Annual leaves
• Family & Friendly Leaves

Tidean Ways of Working 

At Tide, we’re Member First and Data Driven, but above all, we’re One Team. Our Working Out of Office (WOO) policy allows you to work from anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year. We are remote first, but when you do want to meet new people, collaborate with your team or simply hang out with your colleagues, our offices are always available and equipped to the highest standard. We offer flexible working hours and trust our employees to do their work well, at times that suit them and their team.

Tide is a place for everyone

At Tide, we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status. We believe it’s what makes us awesome at solving problems! We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment, where everyone’s voice is heard.