DevOps Engineer

Lead is a fintech building banking infrastructure for embedded financial products and services. We operate an FDIC-insured bank headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Additionally, we have offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City, where our technical, product, design, and legal teams operate.

We are built for a constantly evolving financial landscape, where new ventures and technological advancements emerge daily. Guided by a team of entrepreneurs and technologists with decades of experience navigating intricate banking and payments regulations, Lead blends regulatory and technological expertise to help our fintech partners scale their operations with compliance and creativity.

Simply put, Lead offers the essential attributes that every fintech seeks in a partner bank. First, unparalleled technical expertise from a distinguished team of developers with an extensive understanding of the banking and payments systems. Second, oversight expertise, automated compliance systems, and bespoke program management to navigate the ever-shifting regulatory landscape. Finally, a commitment to transparency and operational rigor to ensure everyone’s money does what it’s supposed to do. 

Role Description: As a DevOps Engineer on our team, you’ll use your experience to streamline our software development life cycle and cloud infrastructure. You will lead the effort to implement our continuous integration and delivery systems. You will also be responsible for operating and evolving our AWS cloud infrastructure and implementing best practices for optimizing resource utilization and cost-effectiveness.

Qualifications:

• Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure development and operations with AWS technologies, specifically EKS, ECS, API Gateway, AppMesh, VPCs, RDS and Step Functions
• Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and test-automation, preferably using GitHub 
• Experience writing infrastructure as code using CDK (Terraform experience a plus)
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field and 7+ years of relevant work experience
• Ability to collaborate/compromise to get to the best, most efficient outcome
• Have humility and thrive working in a fluid, high-growth environment with high autonomy
• Fintech experience is a plus

What we offer:

• At Lead, we design our benefits to support company culture and principles, to foster an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to create the conditions for our team to give their best in both work and life
• Competitive compensation, including opportunities for equity grants, based on experience, geographic location, and role
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRA
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays
• A fun and challenging team environment in a dynamic industry with ample opportunities for career growth 

*Lead Bank is proud to have an inclusive culture committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity in all employment decisions regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected status.

*Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

*Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

*Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

*Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. Pay is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on geographical market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Zone 1: $155,000 - $200,000 (SF/Bay Area, NYC, Seattle, LA)

Zone 2: $145,080 - $190,000 (Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, San Diego, DC)

Zone 3: $135,000 - $186,560 (Other US Metros)

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