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ModernFi
New York City, United States3 months ago
150,000 – 250,000 USD
per year
Grade
Senior
Experience
from 5 years
Work format
Remote, Onsite
English level
B2, upper-intermediate
Relocation
United States, New York
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ModernFi is seeking a Platform Engineer to build the foundation that our platform runs on, alongside a talented and collaborative team. This is a founding Platform Engineering role, and from day one you will work on critical systems with meaningful ownership and a direct hand in shaping the direction of our products and infrastructure. As the technical owner of the platform, you will define how we operate our infrastructure, release software, and approach security across the company.
Your work will be instrumental in building the products that help banks and credit unions operate, improving financial health nationwide. This role offers the opportunity to deliver impactful solutions with real autonomy, work on mission-critical systems, grow your technical expertise, and influence ModernFi's broader trajectory as we grow from serving hundreds of institutions to thousands.
At ModernFi, your work will directly fuel our vision and mission to serve as systemically important financial infrastructure that drives the American economy and to empower our partner financial institutions to grow and better serve their communities.
The caliber and character of the ModernFi team set us apart.
We value competence and drive over experience, and look for compassionate people with diverse backgrounds. We appreciate technical ability, dedication, and humble confidence. Above all, we value respect — for our colleagues, our clients, our partners, and ourselves.
Our team pushes each other to be better every day, supports each other when things go wrong, and grows together on this journey. Because we are a close-knit team, we are selective and considerate with every hire.
The people at ModernFi could be doing anything in the world, yet they choose to be here.
AWS / Pulumi IaC
PostgreSQL (RDS), ECS, Docker
Temporal
Python (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy)
Datadog, PagerDuty, GitHub Actions
Auth0, Vanta, Fern
5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent on infrastructure, platform, or reliability-focused work in a production environment
Deep fluency with cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS), infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform, or similar), and modern CI/CD pipelines
A security mindset: you treat security as a first-class concern in everything you build, even if you don't come from a dedicated security background. Familiarity with frameworks such as SOC 2, compliance tooling such as Vanta, and concepts such as secrets management, key rotation, and least-privilege access is a plus
Hands-on experience with a modern observability stack (Datadog, Prometheus + Grafana, the Elastic stack, or equivalent), and a track record of setting observability and monitoring standards that translate into actionable insights for product teams downstream. You've also defined SLOs, run postmortems, and improved the on-call experiences you've personally experienced
Comfortable owning systems end-to-end, from the IaC that provisions them to the runbooks that recover them
Experience working in or alongside small, fast-moving engineering teams, with a track record of making them faster and more reliable rather than introducing process drag
Excellent communication skills. You can explain a network topology to a non-engineer and a production incident to a CEO with equal clarity
High level of empathy, integrity, and calmness under pressure
You're excited by the prospect of being the founding Platform Engineer at a fintech company where your work directly determines what we can safely ship. You’re the kind of IC who thrives on shipping infrastructure that other engineers love to build on
Salary Range: $150,000 - $250,000 + Equity
ModernFi is seeking a Platform Engineer to build the foundation that our platform runs on, alongside a talented and collaborative team. This is a founding Platform Engineering role, and from day one you will work on critical systems with meaningful ownership and a direct hand in shaping the direction of our products and infrastructure. As the technical owner of the platform, you will define how we operate our infrastructure, release software, and approach security across the company.
Your work will be instrumental in building the products that help banks and credit unions operate, improving financial health nationwide. This role offers the opportunity to deliver impactful solutions with real autonomy, work on mission-critical systems, grow your technical expertise, and influence ModernFi's broader trajectory as we grow from serving hundreds of institutions to thousands.
At ModernFi, your work will directly fuel our vision and mission to serve as systemically important financial infrastructure that drives the American economy and to empower our partner financial institutions to grow and better serve their communities.
The caliber and character of the ModernFi team set us apart.
We value competence and drive over experience, and look for compassionate people with diverse backgrounds. We appreciate technical ability, dedication, and humble confidence. Above all, we value respect — for our colleagues, our clients, our partners, and ourselves.
Our team pushes each other to be better every day, supports each other when things go wrong, and grows together on this journey. Because we are a close-knit team, we are selective and considerate with every hire.
The people at ModernFi could be doing anything in the world, yet they choose to be here.
Salary Range: $150,000 - $250,000 + Equity
If you’d like to learn more, please email us at . Our process is focused on cultural and personality fit. We are excited to get to know you, learn about what motivates you, and ensure that we can accelerate your personal and professional growth.
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