Staff Platform Engineer - Remote
Aktos · Remote
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Staff Platform Engineer at Aktos, a seed-stage vertical SaaS fintech for the credit collections industry; split roughly 80% backend and 20% DevOps/SRE. Work covers Django/DRF/Postgres backend features, API and SFTP integrations, Postgres performance tuning, and AWS EKS infrastructure. Stack includes ReactJS/Redux frontend, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitHub Actions, AWS, Redis.
Company Mission
Aktos is a seed-stage, Vertical SaaS Fintech startup looking for a Staff Platform Engineer (80% Backend Engineering + 20% DevOps/SRE) who will play a key role in building the Operating System that powers the $18B Credit Collections industry.
Credit Collectors play an overlooked yet integral part of our financial ecosystem. They help Consumers settle their debts and improve their credit scores— granting them clean states to start over. Collectors help critical businesses like doctor's offices and local governments, who deal with high payment default risk, secure their revenue streams and ensure their continued survival.
In truth, Collectors have incredibly interesting, multi-faceted jobs. They are often one part sales person, one part therapist, and one part detective in their mission to recover funds. At Aktos, we are building a modern software platform that caters to Collectors' unique workflows, and make the credit recovery process a more positive experience for all parties.
Our Team
Aktos was founded by seasoned Product and Engineering leaders who have worked at companies such as Zenefits, TikTok, Meta, LinkedIn, Google, Apple, Amazon, WeWork, Flatiron Health (acquired by Booking.com). We are experts at building, launching, and scaling word-class software platforms— rest assured, if you join us you will be working with and learning from the best.
Our Stack:
- Frontend - ReactJS, Redux, RTK Query
- Backend - Django, DRF, Postgres
- DevOps - Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Github Actions, AWS, Postgres, Redis.
Responsibilities
- Maintaining our AWS infrastructure
- Scalable & Maintainable Backend Feature Development [Python Experience is Required]
- Scalable & Maintainable API/SFTP Integrations [Experience is Required]
- Monitoring and troubleshooting Postgres DB (adding/removing indexes, partitioning/sharding)
- Maintaining developer environments.
- Managing CI pipelines and runners.
- Setting up and managing alerting systems.
- Providing on-call support and guidance to other developers to triage issues.
Who You Are
Backend Engineer Expertise:
- Python/Django (Django required)
- Python + DB Performance optimization [Required]
- API / SFTP Integrations (must have experience)
- Feature Development experience
DevOps/SRE Expertise:
- Will need to be comfortable with AWS, Maintaining EKS (Kubernetes on AWS).
- Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Github Actions, AWS, Postgres, Redis.
Requirements
- 5+ Years of Professional Software Development Experience
- 2+ Years of Professional SRE/DevOps Experience
- Professional experience maintaining/enhancing Kubernetes cluster via IaaC [Terraform experience preferred].
- Professional experience with Python (2+ years required)
- Strong fundamental understanding and usage of a RDBMS [Postgres preferred]
- In-depth knowledge and hands on experience with AWS
- Solid engineering fundamentals and passion for high quality code
- Product intuition, user empathy, ability to make sound UX decisions
- Strong work ethic, end-to-end ownership mentality
Perks and Benefits:
- Competitive salary with employee stock options, bonus and access to a 401K
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Remote-first company
