Lead Platform Engineer

Compensation: The range for this position is $200,000 - $250,000 annually. The salary offered will be based on experience, qualifications, and geographic location.

What is Reach Financial?

Reach Financial is a FinTech platform helping people outsmart debt for good.

We are building innovative products and best-in-class support that enable our customers to take control of their debt and de-mystify their personal finances. Our products and tools empower our customers to turn their financial goals into a reality.

Reach Financial launched in 2015 and has helped our customers pay off over $1 billion in debt. We offer debt consolidation loans and personal loans; together, these markets represent a $1.5T opportunity. In time, we will expand beyond these products to offer solutions for a variety of our customers' personal finance challenges.

We are a fast-growing and fast-paced FinTech startup with the stability of an established firm. You will have a front-row seat at a rapidly growing company innovating the FinTech industry.

About the role:

As the Lead Platform Engineer on our team, you’ll be driving forward the technical architecture across platform infrastructure, DevOps and security, establishing best practices as well as contributing with hands-on work. You’ll be designing and building new services and workflows as well as enhancing and improving existing ones.

Collaborating with Engineering leaders, Product, and your fellow Engineers, you’ll help make decisions and lead projects that will lay the groundwork for Reach to help millions of Americans outsmart debt for good.

What you will do: 

• Design, implement and maintain scalable and secure cloud infrastructure.
• Lead Platform initiatives including deployment processes, pipelines, infrastructure as code, security improvements, container orchestration, etc
• Mentor and lead a team of Platform engineers, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration
• Collaborate with Product Managers and other Engineering functions to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Own and enhance software lifecycle management tools and processes using industry best practices.
• Create and maintain CI/CD processes across development, staging, and production environments.
• Review code contributions and suggest improvements to ensure performance, security, and maintainability.
• Champion sustainable delivery models and engineering excellence across the organization.

What you should have: 

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in a Platform Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, DevOps and/or Security Engineering role, with deep experience within AWS. 
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform (and/or OpenTofu) to manage AWS as well as other systems
• Demonstrated experience with shell scripting, Python, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Experience configuring and deploying monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog or similar.
• Experience deploying, maintaining and scaling serverless and container-based systems (AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc).
• Experience with with SSO SAML, OAuth 2.0 and/or Open ID Connect
• Solid understanding of web services, databases, distributed systems, and service meshes.
• Hands-on experience with security frameworks, protocols, and requirements when deploying systems that handle PII.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Fluent in the language of CI/CD and version control on top of Github

Nice to haves:

• Experience in financial lending industry
• Exposure to Salesforce in a mixed (Salesforce & AWS) environment
• Familiarity with application security (OWASP, CWE, etc) and application security testing (DAST, SAST, SCA, etc)

What is it like working at Reach Financial?

Our culture is built around advancing our teams, and we are dedicated to the success and growth of every team member. We believe in retaining a high-performing workforce and we prioritize diversity, intellectual curiosity, and continued learning. Our generous benefits packages reflect that.

We’ve been hard at work perfecting our product for years, and now we’re growing faster than ever before. Our strong foundation and company culture is readily equipped for this growth, and we believe that with the right people, our products will continue to help customers make real changes in their financial lives.

What benefits will you receive?

• Remote First Culture with optional Hybrid opportunities
• Healthcare, Life Insurance, 401k Match
• Paid Time Off, Paid 12-week Parental Leave
• Disability (short-term, long-term), Employee Assistance Program
• Spending Accounts (Transit/Parking, Medical, Dependent Care)
• Insurance Discounts (home, auto, pet)

Reach Financial is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Reach Financial makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.