Platform Automation Engineer

Founded in 2017, NinjaHoldings works to give everyday Americans better access to financial services than traditional institutions typically provide. Through our CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands, we offer digital banking and lending products designed for consumers often overlooked, paired with incentives that support long-term financial improvement. Our Edge brand extends this expertise to other companies, providing underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics services. Headquartered in Chicago with a distributed global workforce, we are a lean, growing organization committed to advancing consumer finance in the US.

Job Summary

Platform Engineers in this role are part of the Operations department and will be primarily focused on the design, development and automation of our cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. This person will work closely with the Software and Risk Engineering teams across our brands to streamline our environments and deployment processes.

Successful candidates for this role will be highly motivated self-starters with a proven track record of using modern technology and software engineering practices to design and deploy robust, cloud-native solutions at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, and maintain automation for managing scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure
• Automate infrastructure lifecycle management, including upgrades, dependency management, security patching, and vulnerability remediation
• Identify and eliminate repetitive manual processes through automation, improving operational efficiency, consistency, and reliability
• Collaborate with engineering and business teams to improve platform capabilities, enable emerging technologies, and document technical solutions

Ideal Candidate Will Have:

• 3+ years of technical experience in an engineering organization
• Extensive experience building highly available, fault tolerant cloud-based systems
• Excellent technical understanding of distributed system design and development
• Experience implementing automated CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and IaC
• Experience in container-based architectures using Kubernetes
• Solid fluency in Linux-based environments and network engineering
• Demonstrated excellence in multiple programming languages
• Excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills

Additional Pluses:

• Experience setting up modern 3-tier web application platforms on AWS
• Experience with Ruby, Python, Terraform, GitHub Actions and/or Kubeflow
• Experience in multiple SQL and NoSQL database technology stacks
• Interest in AI technologies and experience supporting or enabling their adoption across engineering and business teams
• Excellent technical understanding of modern web application development practices
• Passion for security, observability, and failover

Benefits & Perks:

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Health Benefits with generous medical, dental and vision insurance plans
• 401(k) with matching contribution
• Paid Family Leave
• Annual Wellness & WFH Subsidies
• Employee Referral Program
• Remote first culture with convenient downtown office in the heart of the city