Senior DevOps Engineer (Nationwide)
Forward Financing has been one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in Boston for the past three years, as recognized by Boston Business Journal, Inc. Magazine, and Deloitte Fast 500. We help small businesses spend less time finding capital and more time helping their customers and growing their businesses. Our mission is to create a world-class fintech company so that our customers and our people can reach their full potential. We accomplish this by investing in our people, technology, and customer experience – with long-term success in mind. Forward Financing strives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion so that each employee feels comfortable bringing their authentic self to work.
About the Role:
As Sr. DevOps engineer you will work directly with the Director of Infrastructure, engineering, and product departments to manage and continuously improve Forward Financing’s infrastructure and increase operational efficiency of the technology teams. The team is small and collaborative and this is a great opportunity to make a big impact at a profitable company based in Boston.
In this role you will:
- Actively contribute to the simplification, security, and stability of the platform by:
- Migrating our 3-tier Rails (and some Elixir) web apps from Heroku to AWS
- Finding solutions to increase the testability, engineering ease, and extendibility of services across the ecosystem
- Developing components that are well-designed, documented and tested, with a design that matches the desired architecture of the system
- Increase the productivity, predictability and throughput of the technology team by:
- Improving and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline
- Using good judgment when evaluating tradeoffs between speed, quality and cost
- Embracing and sharing best practices, domain knowledge, documentation and learning
- Contribute to the Forward Financing culture and serving as a positive ambassador for the technology team
Requirements:
- 5+ years working with modern web apps on AWS in a DevOps capacity, 2+ years working with containers
- Demonstrated success in writing Terraform to deploy containerized apps in AWS
- Deep knowledge of CI/CD process (we use Codeship) and Git(hub)
- Ability to script and automate in Rails, Python, or bash
- Enough DBA experience with Postgres to lead/handle database server migrations
- Demonstrated success building out a monitoring/alerting platform
- Deep knowledge of AWS best-practices
Forward Financing Core Values:
- People First- We build relationships and genuinely care about eachother.
- We Before Me- We prioritize team success over individual success.
- Be Candid – We are authentic, transparent, and direct.
- Do the Right Thing – We act with integrity and we don’t cut corners.
- Relentless Improvement – We push ourselves, never settling for the best we did yesterday.
- Be Positive – We are optimistic and assume positive intent.
About Us:
Forward Financing is a Boston-based fintech company that provides fast, flexible, and reliable capital to small businesses nationwide. With a simple online application, business owners can trust that Forward Financing works to get them approvals within minutes, funding within hours, and personalized support when they need it most.
Since 2012, Forward Financing has provided over $1 billion in financing to more than 26,000 small businesses. Consistently recognized as an industry leader, the company is A+ rated by the Better Business Bureau and receives top ratings across all major customer review platforms. Forward Financing has been consistently named by Boston Business Journal and Built in Boston as one of the best places to work in Massachusetts.
Forward Financing actively promotes a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in all we do. We are committed to creating a workplace where trust and respect are paramount and all employees feel valued, heard, and accepted. By embracing diversity of thought, background, and identity, we will continue to become a stronger team and a better organization.
We are a diverse and driven group of over 100 people, located in the heart of Boston’s Financial District. Our employees come to work knowing they are helping thousands of small businesses while advancing their own careers. If this sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, learn more about our leadership team and our open opportunities.
Perks & Benefits:
At Forward Financing, we believe that if our company succeeds, all of our employees succeed too. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including but not limited to; medical, dental, vision and commuter benefits along with a flexible time off policy, 401k match, gym reimbursement, paid volunteering days, annual professional development budget, and charitable donation match.
When we aren’t busy with a Zoom meeting, supporting our customers, or working on a project, you can likely find us taking part in a scavenger hunt, getting overly competitive in a trivia game, or celebrating our team wins together!
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