Job Description
Since 2017 Flourish has been on a mission to help financial advisors evolve from holistic advice to holistic implementation to better serve their clients and grow their businesses. We focus on independent Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) delivering financial products that advisors can’t easily access today through beautiful scalable and easy-to-use technology.
Today we work with over 1100 RIAs that collectively represent more than $2.6T in assets under management across two products: Flourish Cash and Flourish Lending. Headquartered in New York City we are an independently-operating wholly-owned subsidiary of MassMutual Life Insurance Company.
Read on if you are interested in joining a dynamic highly-collaborative rapidly-growing startup—backed by the support and stability of a Fortune 500 company.
You are an engineer first and foremost. You are intimately familiar with designing and building cloud-native infrastructure following industry best-practices especially when it comes to security. You are keen on automation and dislike repetitive tasks. You are not satisfied and will continually iterate on something until you feel it is done the right way. You are someone that has an ownership mentality and tries to always leave something in a better state than the way they found it. You have an insatiable curiosity and always ask: Why? You thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. You are a strong communicator explaining complex technical concepts to designers support and other engineers is no problem for you.
You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures algorithms programming languages distributed systems and information retrieval.
Our mission is to provide innovative access to financial products that help RIAs secure their clients’ financial futures and the Flourish Engineers play a key role in doing just that. You will be at the forefront of high-impact mission-critical projects that will enable us to sail into the next chapters of our cloud-native journey. Working with other engineers you will bring ideas from the whiteboard to reality providing input to key architectural decisions. You will be responsible for designing and building infrastructure as code following industry best-practices especially when it comes to security. You will engineer self-service and automated solutions to enable application development teams to constantly move faster while ensuring compliance with security standards and requirements. You have working knowledge of distributed systems and cloud-native technologies and are excited to work throughout the tech-stack to deliver a delightful experience for customers and coworkers.
- Being part of a passionate and creative team of engineers in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving environment at the forefront of high-impact mission-critical projects that will enable us to sail into the next chapters of our cloud-native journey
- Designing developing integrating testing and monitoring all AWS infrastructure following industry best practices and standards in a secure and highly regulated environment
- Utilize AI-based tools for Infrastructure as Code Development
- Engineer self-service and automated solutions to enable application development teams to constantly move faster while ensuring compliance with security standards and requirements
- Build and pilot a next generation application platform centered around Kubernetes and its ecosystem of software
- Acting as a trusted partner for application development teams advising and supporting their use cloud technologies
- Design develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Apply secure by design and secure by default patterns to AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure and platforms
- Champion cloud-native best practices and partner with application development teams on their implementation
- Automating your job away
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent working experience
- 3+ years of professional experience
- Strong programming and scripting skills with one or more languages (such as Python Go and Bash)
- Experience utilizing and deploying applications to a container orchestration platform like Kubernetes in a production environment
- Experience working with Linux operating systems and containers
- MS or PhD in Computer Science Math Physics or Engineering
- Ability to work independently and as part of a fast moving team
- Ready to learn but just as ready to teach
- Excited to build and launch businesses
- Professional experience designing and managing infrastructure in AWS with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools in a highly regulated environment
- Experience implementing or integrating with and utilizing application metric logging and tracing aggregation tools such as but not limited to New Relic Prometheus OpenTelemetry Loki and Grafana for troubleshooting monitoring and alerting
- Experience using AI agents such as GitHub Copilot for development
- Practical working experience with event driven architectures and message buses like Kafka
- Experience owning CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows
- Ability to design and develop event driven automations and/or workflows using AWS Lambda and/or Step Functions is highly desired
- Understanding of the SRE principles and/or a background in an SRE operations or system administrator role is a huge plus
At Flourish we focus on ensuring fair equitable pay by providing competitive salaries along with bonus and incentive opportunities and benefits for all employees.
Base Salary Range: $152100 - $199600 plus bonus
Disclosures:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or protected veteran status.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of professional experience
- Strong programming and scripting skills with Python Go or Bash
- Experience deploying applications to Kubernetes
- Working experience with Linux operating systems
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What We Do
Flourish provides innovative access to financial products that help advisors secure their clients’ financial futures. We work with over 900 wealth management firms that collectively represent more than $1.6 trillion in assets under management across two products: Flourish Annuities and Flourish Cash — with additional exciting products in the works. Headquartered in New York City we are an independent subsidiary of MassMutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual). Please visit flourish.com for more information. The Flourish business is owned by MassMutual. Flourish Financial LLC and Flourish Digital Assets LLC are indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries of MassMutual. Flourish Cash is offered through Flourish Financial LLC. Flourish Annuities is offered through Flourish Technologies LLC and Flourish Insurance Agency LLC.
Why Work With Us
As a 90+ person company backed by MassMutual we have the unique ability to operate like a startup while benefiting from the stability of a Fortune 500 company. That backing allows us to focus on what we do best: dreaming up new products gathering client feedback writing code debating our roadmap and hiring an incredible team.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We’re mostly NYC based and come into the office on a hybrid schedule (Tuesday to Thursday) where we enjoy team lunches and our spacious outdoor terrace.
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Date Posted
05/28/2026
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