Staff Engineer, Greenlight

Cloud Engineering

$165-225k

Base pay range is applicable to candidates in NY, CA, WA and CO only, and may differ depending on location. + Discretionary performance bonus, equity rewards

AWS

Kubernetes

Java

Redis

Node.js

Kotlin

MySQL

REST API

DynamoDB

Expert level

Remote in US

New York

Debit card for kids and teens

Open for applications

Debit card for kids and teens

501-1000 employees

FintechB2CRetailBankingKids

Open for applications

$165-225k

Base pay range is applicable to candidates in NY, CA, WA and CO only, and may differ depending on location. + Discretionary performance bonus, equity rewards

AWS

Kubernetes

Java

Redis

Node.js

Kotlin

MySQL

REST API

DynamoDB

Expert level

Remote in US

New York

501-1000 employees

FintechB2CRetailBankingKids

Company mission

Shine a light on the world of money for families and empower parents to raise financially-smart kids.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
12+ years of experience in engineering and technical hands-on roles
Prior experience working in a high-growth stage company building and architecting SAAS products and solutions
The ability to provide technical insight and overall direction on projects from concept to delivery
Excellent communication skills, this is a highly collaborative position and you will need to communicate effectively to multiple audiences
Exemplary technical and operational skills. Ideally a development background working with Node.js, Java, or Go as well as architecture experience designing distributed systems and breaking apart monolithic systems

What the job involves

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to work within our Infrastructure organization
In this role, you will be responsible for driving technical excellence and engineering velocity by leading platform initiatives across cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, database operations, and developer experience
You will help shape Greenlight Engineering's technical foundation to enable rapid, reliable software delivery at scale
You will be building and improving engineering internal tooling, process, and standards with focus on mature automation to enable faster, more consistent, more reliable, and highly repeatable application delivery
We have moved fast to get to the point we are at today and there are certain components of our systems that need to be modernized
In this role, you will help us on that journey and support our teams as they build new features into our applications
Backend: Node.js, Kotlin, Java, Go, REST, gRPC, AWS, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Kubernetes, Ambassador, Helm
You will lead the technical vision and strategy for cloud infrastructure across the organization, establishing architectural principles and patterns that enable scale, reliability, and innovation
You will drive architectural decisions that balance business needs, technical debt, and engineering velocity. You will work to mature the current platforms we have for internal tooling and development
Establish technical standards and governance frameworks that enable autonomous team execution while maintaining operational excellence
Drive cross-organizational initiatives that significantly improve engineering productivity and reliability
Define and implement SLO frameworks and reliability principles that scale across multiple teams and services
Provide technical mentorship to senior engineers across cloud, reliability, and platform engineering
Lead technical design reviews and architecture discussions that shape major infrastructure, security and product initiatives
Partner with Engineering Leadership to maintain a technical roadmap that moves our teams forward incrementally and continuously in the right direction
Designing software and systems as well as being hands on writing code about 25% of the time

Our take

Greenlight was built to help parents raise financially-smart kids. It’s a gap in a generation’s education for which a new sector of ‘family finance’ is emerging to combat.

The company serves millions of parents and kids with accounts distinguished by their easy-to-use money management tools and educational resources. Even Viola Davis, famed actress, told Jimmy Kimmel that she uses the fintech startup’s services to teach her daughter financial lessons.

Greenlight is now looking to expand its suite of products into more lucrative verticals. In particular, 2022 saw the launch of its first credit card product for parents. Like most credit cards, it will offer cashback (up to 3% on all purchases).

The supposed difference between Greenlight’s offering and others is that this cashback can automatically be directed to investment opportunities, framed as helping parents save for their children’s education. Greenlight’s advantage is the trust it has earned from millions of families. The startup’s long-term success will be determined by whether it can release these lucrative products without tarnishing this trust.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-3% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.2)

Trustpilot (3.8)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Apr 2021

$260m

SERIES D

Sep 2020

$215m

SERIES C

Total funding: $595.6m

Company benefits

Medical, dental, vision and FSAs
Unlimited, flexible time off
Generous employer 401(k) match and equity
16-week paid parental leave
Ongoing learning and development
Remote-friendly work environment

Company values

Be bold
Make your mark
Win together
Live the mission

Company HQ

Hotel District, Atlanta, GA

Articles

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Fintech Outfit Greenlight Taps Outside Counsel as Top Lawyer

Leadership

Tim Sheehan

(CEO)

Previous leadership experience at Yahoo Finance, E*TRADE, Fiserv and more.

Johnson Cook

(President)

Been an active angel investor and community leader in Atlanta for over two decades.

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