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Los Angeles, California, United States
Hybrid
Lightspark is creating the Money Grid, modern, open financial infrastructure that makes payments accessible, affordable, and instant for businesses and users worldwide. We're challenging the status quo, updating the current system, and empowering our partners to build better solutions. Together, we're building the most advanced financial infrastructure, open, instant, and global, inspiring a future where anyone, anywhere can access the full potential of digital money.
We are looking for engineers who thrive in entrepreneurial environments, enjoy writing and shipping code fast, and can help us build out a great culture of engineering excellence. We’re looking for people who are passionate about building world-changing software and solving complex problems to further our mission, as well as having fun along the way. As a Production Engineer, you’ll build and integrate new experiences for Lightspark’s customers, and optimize the performance, scalability, and reliability of Lightspark infrastructure.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:
Designing, building, scaling, securing and maintaining production services
Writing or improving code frameworks (e.g. monitoring, logging, database access, authentication)
Desire to learn and grow in a highly collaborative environment
Building and optimizing core infrastructure to support new features and functionality
Joining the on-call rotation, supporting the Software Engineers, and debugging the hardest problems
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
5+ years of Production / Site Reliability / DevOps Engineering
Experience writing high quality and well tested code
Experience communicating and collaborating across technical and other cross functional teams
CS degree, or equivalent is ideal but not required. We appreciate and acknowledge that some of the best talent comes from non-traditional backgrounds.
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code solutions (i.e. AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.)
Experience programming in high-level languages such as Python is preferred
Openness to relocate to Los Angeles, California, or ability to travel to the LA office on a monthly basis working remotely
Lightspark is on a mission to build the future of open, instant, and global financial infrastructure making payments accessible and affordable for everyone, everywhere. We're committed to creating a more inclusive and diverse workplace to reflect the customers we serve. We welcome interest from individuals of all backgrounds and levels of experience who share our mission. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the State of California Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
