Job Description: Platform Engineer

About SmartAsset:

SmartAsset is on a mission to help people get better Financial Advice. Our vision is to be the web’s go-to resource for financial advice powering the largest marketplace connecting consumers with financial advisors and financial products.

We have raised $110 Million in Series D Funding, bringing our valuation to over $1 Billion to further fuel SmartAsset’s continued growth of its market-defining SmartAdvisor platform. Today, SmartAsset reaches more than 100 million people each month through its personal finance content, custom tools, and personalized calculators. SmartAsset was also named to Y Combinator's list of Top 100 Companies of all time and Forbes' list of America's Best Startup Employers in 2020.

SmartAsset has been featured in hundreds of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, TechCrunch, The New York Times, CNBC, FOX Business, The Washington Post, U.S. News World Report, TIME, Reuters, Businessweek, and Barron’s.

About the Team:

Come help us build the platform that SmartAsset engineers leverage to ship software to production and derive insights from data! Join a team focused on identifying and building new services to help our engineers work better and smarter. Platform Engineers are deeply technical but product-focused, striving to raise the bar for developer experience at SmartAsset for everything from CI/CD pipelines to application architecture.

You’ll be working as part of a small but essential team making critical decisions and improvements to our engineering platform. You’ll work closely with the data and engineering teams to understand the problems they encounter and help fuel the platform's roadmap. You’ll get the opportunity to work with many other talented individuals and see the impact of the work that you’re doing.

About the Job:

Responsibilities:

• Empower product delivery teams to execute independently while meeting a high bar of excellence.
• Identify and deliver capabilities as part of an engineering platform that help product delivery teams to succeed.
• Design and iterate on infrastructure-as-code templates and software libraries that help engineering teams move faster, including for applications, databases, edge infrastructure, AWS account infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability.
• Shape the DevOps experience at SmartAsset, bundling up telemetry, tracing, logs, dashboards, and alerting in a coherent way that supports strong collaboration and rapid issue resolution.
• Engage in a highly collaborative team environment where you leverage your experience to guide teams on cloud architecture, scaling patterns, development opportunities, cost savings, and vulnerabilities.
• Design, develop, and integrate mature DevOps pipelines, including build automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), security, observability, and alerting.
• Develop a strategic roadmap and a strong agile backlog that supports adoption of cloud best practices and enables high-quality product delivery.

Skills / Experience You Have:

• 5+ years of experience in a Software Engineering role.
• Comprehensive DevOps experience in building, shipping, scaling, and operating Java web applications and services in AWS.
• Experience designing complex cloud solutions based on AWS and the ability to plan the implementation of these solutions.
• Demonstrated critical and strategic thinking about business, products, and technical challenges to stakeholders.
• Strong hands-on experience in AWS.
• A strong grasp of modern web application architecture.
• Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code in AWS with Terraform.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with familiarity working in an agile environment.
• Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment and the ability to be cross-functional.
• Passion for having engineers as customers and for building the tools that enable other engineering teams to meet their objectives.
• A holistic, system-based mindset: an obsessive focus on the nea