Site Reliability Engineer, Curve
$70-75k
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Banking platform consolidating cards & accounts
Open for applications
Banking platform consolidating cards & accounts
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$70-75k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
Curve is on a mission to simplify the way people spend, send, see and save money.
Role
Who you are
- Exerience deploying production ready applications to a Kubernetes cluster
- 2+ years of experience with a cloud provider (AWS an advantage)
- Knowledge of defining infrastructure as code, ideally with Terraform
- Experienced with a modern programming language such as Go or Python
- Ability to diagnose problems at any level (Client, HTTP/Network, Server, Database, OS)
- Experience of agile development practices and working in sprints
- Knowledge of designing PCI-compliant infrastructure will be a bonus
- Experience of working in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment will be an advantage
- Ability to write clear, concise documentation
- Keen to learn, and aware of changes in the software and cloud-native technologies industry
What the job involves
- We are searching for a certain kind of person who is excited by the idea of owning the products they build, as well as people who like to build best-in-class features and services
- This position requires collaboration with engineers, product managers and other teams and stakeholders within the business
- If you’re thrilled by the idea of ownership, passionate about building features and services, and think you can manage the fast pace with a fail-fast, learn-fast attitude, we would love to hear from you
- Working with Curve’s engineering teams to support the infrastructure they need and the platforms on which their services run
- Observing our platforms and services to measure reliability, find areas for improvement, and discover any risks to the stability or security of our systems
- Maintaining new and existing infrastructure with code, by writing well-designed Terraform modules, to make the best use of our cloud providers
- Doing proof-of-concepts on new and emerging tech to see how it could fit at Curve
- Taking part in honest and transparent blame-free post-mortems on incidents we have, so we can learn from them and prevent them from happening again
- Sharing your work and talking about it within the Platform and Engineering team, to spread knowledge and be an ambassador for good site reliability practices
- Deploying innovative new tools to help accelerate engineers and make their lives easier, giving them more time to focus on what they are building
- Documenting and driving the adoption of engineering best practices across the wider Engineering team
- Demonstrating ownership of all initiatives from concept to launch, and embodying unwavering commitment and reliability, with a genuine willingness to contribute and address challenges
- Helping Curve scale to many millions of customers and expand into multiple regions
- Architect our platforms to be secure and reliable to give our customers peace of mind
- Automate and accelerate - reduce manual tasks and allow all of Curve’s engineers to concentrate on building exciting new features
- Build, measure, learn - help us put together the best observability tools to continually improve Curve’s services and performance
- Our current tech stack includes:
- Cloud providers: Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform
- Platforms: Kubernetes (EKS) with Istio service mesh
- Observability: Prometheus, Coralogix and Grafana
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Hashicorp Vault
- Infrastructure as Code: extensive use of Terraform and Atlantis
- CI/CD: GitLab, Flux and Helm
Our take
Keeping track of spending across multiple credit and debit cards can be a difficult task. Curve lets customers consolidate all of their bank cards into a single card and app, to make it easier to manage spending and access other benefits.
Curve is following in the footsteps of several European neobanks, including N26, Monzo and Revolut, with ambitious expansion plans for the US. Americans have seven to eight cards on average and they typically love rewards, making the market attractive for Curve.
The company has a track record of responding quickly to consumer wants. For example, it has launched cryptocurrency rewards programs to cater to the ever-growing ‘crypto-curious market', as well as partnering with both Berg Watches and Fidesmo to meet expanding demand for wearable payments. In 2022, Credit Suisse backed a $1 billion credit facility for the company, to enable it to scale its lending business.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
33% female employees
-24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2023
$73.3m
SERIES C
May 2021
$11.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $248.9m
Company benefits
- 20 Days Vacation (we actually want you to take this)
- 10 Paid Holidays
- Work from home opportunities
- Take up to 10 days per year for training & conferences 🇺🇸
- Take 2 days for house moves 🇺🇸
- Birthday Holiday 🇺🇸
- Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits 🇺🇸
- 100% employee covered Health, Dental, and Vision insurance 🇺🇸
- We also cover 50% of dependents’ health care 🇺🇸
- Health Savings Account or Flexible Spending Account 🇺🇸
- 4 Medical Plus plans: HealthAdvocate, Teladoc, TalkSpace, On-Demand Primary Care 🇺🇸
- 401(k) with up to 4% match; immediately vested 🇺🇸
- Equity (Options) 🇺🇸
- Unlimited Book Benefit 🇺🇸
- Learning Budget $1,750 per year 🇺🇸
- Long-term Disability Insurance 🇺🇸
- Life Insurance & Voluntary Supplemental Life Insurance 🇺🇸
- AD&D Insurance 🇺🇸
- Voluntary Short-term Disability Insurance 🇺🇸
Company values
- Customer obsession - Start with the customer and work backwards to create meaningful experiences
- Communicate and collaborate - This helps us unify and align so we can move quickly and be empowered
- Challenge everything - Yourself, your colleagues and the status quo. Commit and progress forward together
- Build. Measure. Learn - Strive to learn and find the 'why' to measure our impact and constantly improve
- Automate to accelerate - Eliminate redundant steps to get things done and always focus on the mission
Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Shachar Bialick
(CEO & Founder)Was Head of Product at Checkout.com. Founded a number of businesses in Israel, and has an MBA from INSEAD.
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