Principal DevOps Engineer, Avant
Personal credit FinTech
Job no longer available
Personal credit FinTech
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower every customer with innovative solutions designed to help them reach their goals.
Role
Who you are
- Strong development experience in a modern programming language: E.g., Python, Ruby, Go, or Bash
- Proven experience in platform engineering or a related role, with a strong understanding of cloud computing concepts and technologies
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience creating and working with containers and leveraging container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and technologies such as Karpenter, KEDA
- Experience building and managing highly available public cloud infrastructure and services
- Experience with standard infrastructure-as-code provisioning and configuration management tools
- Experience supporting relational and non-relational databases, messages busses, caching services, and other data persistence tools
- Experience developing CI/CD workflows, GitHub Actions
- Experience with migrating services and workflows to new platforms
- Familiarity with standard monitoring, logging, and observability platforms, we use Datadog, Sentry
- Familiarity with Amazon Web Services, Terraform, Helm, Vault, Ansible, Spacelift
- Experience with Databricks for data engineering and analytics tasks
- Familiarity with Airflow for orchestrating complex data workflows
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, security best practices, and containerization technologies
What the job involves
- The Infrastructure team is responsible for the platform, tools, and infrastructure supporting Avant's customer-facing products
- As a team member, you will be developing tools to create and maintain cloud infrastructure, automate the management of complex service-oriented applications, and develop frameworks to ensure the Avant platform's stability and scalability
- Design, develop, and deploy infrastructure solutions using modern cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform)
- Implement automation and orchestration tools to streamline provisioning, deployment, and management of infrastructure and services
- Collaborate with software engineering teams to design scalable and resilient architectures for applications/services
- Monitor and troubleshoot platform performance issues, ensuring high availability and optimal resource utilization
- Continuously optimize infrastructure and processes to improve reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency
- Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in platform engineering, incorporating new technologies and methodologies as appropriate
Our take
Many Americans with below average credit scores are caught in a bind: they're unable to improve their score, and simultaneously cannot access traditional loans. Avant's alternative is to offer credit options that are powered by machine learning and based upon a large database that helps to manage risk.
For its users, the company offers a quick credit decision and speedy access to any allotted funds. It has issued over $8 billion in loans to date, and has also expanded its business through the acquisitions of ReadyForZero in 2015 and Zero Financial in 2021.
This expansion has enabled Avant to reach towards its goal of offering a whole suite of products in a single platform, such as loans, credit cards, and deposits. Although there are many FinTechs looking at ways to remove the barriers that people with low credit scores face when trying to take out loans, this expansion to banking products should help Avant to stand out.
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Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2022
$125m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2015
$325m
SERIES E
Total funding: $779m
Company benefits
- Choice of great medical, dental, and vision insurance plan options
- 401(k) Match
- Unlimited paid time off
- Flexible work environment
- Generous paid parental leave
- Lunch allowance (Fooda) and in-office snacks
- WFH stipends for our remote employees
- Access to LinkedIn Learning for professional development
- No meeting wednesdays - (a.k.a. planned time to Get Sh!t Done)
- Summer fridays
- Fun in-office and virtual social events
- (And who doesn’t love the swag)
Company HQ
River North, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Al Goldstein
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)They worked for a year at Deutsche Bank before founding Pangea Properties in 2008, and Avant in 2013. They have been Chair since, alongside founding Amount, Spring Labs, and StoicLane.
Paul Zhang
(Co-Founder & CIO)Having studied at the University of Illinois, they spent a year as a Software Engineer at CashNetUSA and Enova Financial. They founded Debteye in 2011, before starting Avant in 2013, serving first as CTO then Chief Architect, CTO again and finally CIO.
Matthew Bochenek
(CEO)Has been with the business since 2013, working in a range of positions including Head of US Servicing, Head of Operations and COO - before becoming CEO in 2021. Previously spend a decade at Superfund Asset Management.
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