Software Engineer - Infrastructure & Platform

About Us

Monarch came out of private beta in early 2021. Since that time we have quickly become one of the premier ways to manage your financial life. Customers love the product and we have seen rapid, organic growth. Our users say that Monarch helps them feel more confident in their finances, and more confident in their financial future.

Our founding team consists of product-driven, serial entrepreneurs with multiple exits. Additionally, our CEO was one of the original creators of Mint.com and has a unique perspective on what is needed to meet consumers' needs in this market.

We are passionate about building a company, product and brand that both customers and employees love. We are well-funded by top venture firms and angel investors.

We founded the company as a fully-remote team (pre Covid!) and are open to applicants that live within a 5 hour time zone difference of US Pacific Time.

The Role

As a Engineer on this team, you will help architect, design and develop projects targeted at making Monarch's infrastructure reliable and cost efficient while scaling to support a fast growing customer base and increasing service workloads. Example projects include rolling out an internal developer platform or deploying a next generation database to support billions of financial transactions. You'll have the opportunity to work on cross-team efforts, mentor your team members and establish engineering best practices across the entire organization.

Your Contribution

• As one of our first Infrastructure engineers, you will play a critical role in growing and evolving our Infrastructure backbone and developer platform.

• You will be more than just a software craftsperson; you will also be a thought partner in building a product, company, and culture we are proud of.

• You will have significant input into the processes, rituals, and tools we use in order to create a high performing engineering team.

• You will typically work with a lot of autonomy, and be expected to 'own' the full implementation of whatever you work on.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of software solutions to enhance cloud efficiency, including automation scripts. Tooling, and infrastructure as code (IaC).

• Influence the features and direction of our platform with your own ideas.

• Provide infrastructure support for engineers on team.

• Align with product and org objectives, and coordinate with cross-functional teams on delivering key results.

• Participate in an Oncall rotation to support the uptime and availability of the platform.

Requirements

• Experience and enthusiasm for learning about new infrastructure products, features, and strategies.

• 3+ years of experience supporting a large-scale production web infrastructure (petabytes or terabytes of data, millions of users).

• Experience in Python and/or Go.

• Experience with Terraform and IaC.

• Experience maintaining and building AWS infrastructure.

• Experience with containerization (e.g., ECS, EKS, and/or Kubernetes...).

• Strong written and verbal communications.

Nice To Have

• Experience with PostgresSQL

• Experience with Monitoring and Observability tools (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Grafana...).

• Experience with Incident Management

Benefits 

• Work wherever you want! As a fully remote company with no central office, we want you to work wherever you are happiest and most productive. Whether that’s out of your home, a co-working space, or elsewhere.

• Competitive cash and equity compensation in a hyper growth, early stage company 🚀.

• Stipend to set-up your ideal working environment.

• Medical, dental and vision benefits (Full time US only).

• 401k (US only).

• Unlimited PTO.

• 3 day weekend every month! We take off the “First Friday” every month to focus on rest, recuperation, or just having fun!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.