Principal DevOps Engineer, Avant
Personal credit FinTech
Open for applications
Personal credit FinTech
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
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 based on machine learning and a large database to manage their risk. The business has issued over $8 billion in loans to date.
The company offers a quick credit decision and speedy access to any allotted funds. It paired up with Zero Financial in 2021, expanding its business to the digital banking space. It plans to offer a whole suite of products in a single platform, such as loans, credit cards, and deposits.
Many fintechs are looking at ways to remove the traditional barriers that people with low credit scores face when trying to take out loans. Avant is not alone in this space, but by expanding its offering to banking products as well, it has increased its customer appeal and its reach. The company has recently received a large investment from Ares Management Alternative Credit Funds, enabling it to expand its credit portfolio and further develop its platform.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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 values
- Authenticity. We show up to work as our whole selves and make sure others can too
- Collaboration. We can only succeed when we do so as a team
- Problem-Solving. The harder the problem, the more satisfying the solution
- Customer. We are all owners of the customer experience
- Initiative. Plan. Adapt. Get Sh!t Done
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Leadership
Al Goldstein
(Executive Chairman)They worked for a year at Deutsche Bank for a year, before founding Pangea Properties in 2008, and Avant in January 2013. They have been Chairman since, alongside founding Amount, Spring Labs, and StoicLane.
Paul Zhang
(CTO)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 since 2019 as CTO.
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