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Engineering Director, Infrastructure
PayJoyConsumer Lending company
San Francisco, United StatesDirector
Citi Ventures
Greylock
Aidenlair Capital
Ascend Vietnam Ventures
Claridge Venture Partners
Invus Opportunities
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead infrastructure strategy, architecture, and delivery to enhance developer productivity and platform reliability.
- •PayJoy is a mission-first credit provider dedicated to helping under-served customers in emerging markets achieve financial stability.
- •This role will define and execute the long-term strategy and architecture for cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, CI/CD systems, and shared engineering services.
- •Key Responsibilities Define and execute the long-term strategy and architecture for cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, CI/CD systems, and shared engineering services.
- •Drive delivery of large-scale infrastructure initiatives while balancing reliability, scalability, security, operational excellence, customer impact, and cost optimization.
- •Establish engineering processes, operating rhythms, service ownership models, and technical standards.
- •Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Compliance, Finance, and Executive leadership to prioritize investments and manage technical risk.
- •Foster a culture of accountability, inclusion, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- •Requirements Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 12+ years of software engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or related technical experience. 4+ years of engineering management experience.
- •Proven experience building, operating, and scaling highly available cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, or developer infrastructure.
- •Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and modern cloud architecture patterns.
Required skills
AWSKubernetesCI/CDDockerTerraformLinuxGitEngineering Management
Nice-to-have skills
PythonJavaScript
Domain expertise
fintech
Tech stack
AWSTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CDPythonJavaScriptLinuxGit