Infrastructure Engineer
glint tech
📍 Remote🌐 Remote🕐 5d ago🔗 himalayas
Job Description
We're hiring multiple **Software Engineers** to join a fast-growing engineering team building the infrastructure behind a mission-critical fintech platform. If you enjoy solving large-scale backend and infrastructure challenges while enabling other engineers to ship faster, we'd love to talk.
### What You'll Do
* Build and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure that powers a production platform processing critical financial transactions.
* Improve developer experience through better CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, monitoring, and automation.
* Design scalable backend systems and platform services with reliability and performance in mind.
* Troubleshoot production issues, improve system resiliency, and help prevent future incidents.
* Collaborate closely with engineers across the company to establish infrastructure best practices and maintain high engineering standards.
### What We're Looking For
### Must Have
* 1–4 years of professional software engineering experience.
* Strong proficiency in **TypeScript** and at least one additional backend programming language.
* Experience building or supporting backend infrastructure or core platform services.
* Experience with one or more of the following:
* Cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
* Distributed or event-driven systems
* System scaling and performance optimization
* Caching technologies
* Backend integrations
* Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals and system design.
### Nice to Have
* AWS infrastructure experience.
* PostgreSQL or database infrastructure experience.
* Experience with microservices or GraphQL APIs.
* Cross-team platform or developer tooling experience.
* Personal projects, open-source contributions, or strong passion for engineering.
### Tech Stack
* AWS
* TypeScript
* PostgreSQL
* GraphQL
* Temporal.io
* Honeycomb
* GitHub Codespaces
* Modern AI-assisted development tools
### Ideal Candidate
* Enjoys working on infrastructure, scalability, and reliability.
* Comfortable owning production systems and solving challenging technical problems.
* Curious, collaborative, and eager to learn new technologies.
* Has experience beyond a single tech stack and enjoys building developer tools and platform capabilities.
Originally posted on [Himalayas](https://himalayas.app)