Lawrence Harvey is partnered with a stealth start-up in the fintech space.
We are seeking a Software Engineer to help build and maintain the core foundation behind their high-performance systems. This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure and product, ensuring the compute, storage, and networking layers operate seamlessly to deliver a world-class user experience.
What You’ll Be Doing
• Create tools, scripts, and backend services that enhance performance, reliability, and scalability in real-time production environments.
• Manage and optimize compute clusters, containers, and microservices across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Design and implement automation for scaling, load management, and system resilience across application and database tiers.
• Build and refine continuous integration and deployment pipelines to support fast, safe releases and rollbacks.
• Continuously track system health and performance metrics, tuning CPU, memory, network, and I/O to maximize efficiency.
What You’ll Bring
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience managing production infrastructure in cloud or on-premise environments.
• Strong programming background with Python, Go, or a systems language such as Rust, or Zig for automation and tooling.
• Expertise in managing compute environments (e.g., EC2, VMs) and/or container orchestration platforms like Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD ecosystems, such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
• Proficiency with data technologies including time-series databases (e.g., InfluxDB, TimescaleDB) and caching/key-value stores (e.g., Redis, DynamoDB).
Other notes:
• Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. - at this moment, only GC or USC.
• Must be able to work in NYC, in-office
