About Us:
Spreedly is the world’s leading Open Payments Platform, sitting at the center of a network processing more than $50b of GMV annually. Spreedly’s Payments Orchestration platform enables and optimizes digital transactions with the world’s most complete payment services marketplace. Built on Spreedly’s PCI-compliant architecture, our Advanced Vault solution combines a modern feature-set with rule-based configurations to optimize the vaulting experience for all stored payment methods. Global enterprises and hyper-growth companies grow their digital business faster by relying on our payments platform. Hundreds of customers worldwide secure card data in our PCI-compliant vault and use tokenized card data to enable and optimize over $45 billion of annual transaction volumes with any payment service.
Our vision is that the world is better with a diversified, inclusive payment ecosystem. Our mission is to accelerate commerce with an open, secure, and flexible payment platform that welcomes all payment participants. Our employees help us execute our vision by building a culture focused on autonomy, transparency, and collaboration in a dynamic, high-growth organization.
Product Offering:
Spreedly provides an open payments platform. The platform’s connectivity provides payments performance. Key products and services include:
Payment Gateway Integration: Connects merchants, platforms, and marketplaces to multiple payment gateways and payment services.
Tokenization: Securely stores and manages payment data with a universal tokenization service.
Transaction Routing: Enables intelligent routing of transactions to optimize success rates and costs.
Payment Vault: A secure storage solution for sensitive payment information.
Fraud Tools Integration: Integrates with various fraud prevention tools to enhance transaction security.
About the Role:
As a Senior Systems Engineer at Spreedly, you will lead ambitious projects, drive deep architectural discussions and decisions, and mentor other team members within the engineering organization. A strong candidate for this role can bring a deep understanding of what it takes to build highly available, performant, and durable cloud architecture and be responsible for the building and scaling of complex infrastructure.
Our infrastructure team regularly works with internal engineering and product teams, as well as external vendors, in pursuit of improving our developer experience and satisfying our customer needs. We seek someone who wants to bring a broad set of technical skills, a development and automation-focused mindset, and a diverse view to our team as we expand our infrastructure to support our goals.
This role is open to candidates who currently reside in Greater Montreal, Quebec.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and scale the infrastructure that will power a globally distributed payments orchestration service, responsible for processing $4B in payments each month
- Infuse your knowledge of modern DevOps and SRE best practices into the team and broader engineering organization. You are a technical leader in your domain, ready to take the next step up the technical leadership ladder. You will have the opportunity to influence at the team level and beyond.
- Provide leadership and mentorship to team members. We are looking for an individual interested in hitting the ground running while uplifting the skills and abilities of everyone around them.
- Balance improving existing infrastructure with building for the future. We recognize that the systems that got us here must still be maintained, but they won’t get us to the next stage of growth.
- Become an expert in Spreedly infrastructure. You should be comfortable with and relish diving into an existing tech stack while understanding you may have to deal with skeletons along the way.
- While we are building for resilience, we acknowledge we still have steps to get there. You will be a key member in writing our resilience, reliability, and availability story.
- Maintain existing EC2 server instance deployments
- Containerize new and existing Spreedly applications
- Support PCI compliance by providing documentation such as network and systems diagrams
- Assist with the build-out of a container orchestration platform, to support a globally distributed system
- Use Terraform and/or Ansible to support Spreedly’s mission of delivering infrastructure-as-code
- Troubleshoot and fix system issues as they arise
- Participate in a weekly on-call rotation to support 24/7 API operations
Requirements:
- Experience building, operating, and scaling systems on AWS with a focus on EC2 and EKS
- Experience with DevOps and/or GitOps and an understanding of CI/CD methods
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code (we use Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Nomad, etc)
- A solid understanding of Amazon Linux and Ubuntu distributions and their ecosystems
- Experience with databases (CockroachDB, Postgres) and middleware infrastructure (Kafka)
- A desire to instrument everything using platforms like Datadog, Sentry, and Sumo Logic
- Experience with containers and container orchestration (Nomad, Docker etc)
- The ability to deliver solutions in support of applications written in Ruby on Rails and Elixir
- Some programming proficiency in Python or Go. You might even be a software engineer with a focus or passion for infrastructure!
- A desire to mentor other engineers and foster a collaborative environment to improve our software development processes
- A willingness to be a generalist and dig into new things you’ve never done before
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience
We Offer Our Canada-based Employees:
- Competitive salary + Equity
- Group Life Insurance and Disability Coverage
- Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage
- Pension contribution
- Open Paid Time Off policy
- Monthly home working/digital lifestyle stipend, new MacBook, and one-time accessory reimbursement
- Free LinkedIn Learning subscription
- Access to company-paid professional coaching service
- Visits to HQ in Durham, North Carolina for remote employees
Spreedly is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We actively work to drive out even unintentional discrimination in our hiring processes via practices like blindly graded work samples, structured interviews, and diversity awareness training.
Due to the sensitive nature of what Spreedly does – handling payment data – finalist candidates must complete a successful background and reference check.
At this time Spreedly is unable to provide sponsorship for employment, and we are not set up to support remote employees who reside in California or New York. In order to be considered for employment, applicants must be currently legally authorized to work in the job location country and not require future sponsorship in order to continue working in that country.
We appreciate your interest in our company. Because of the high volume of resume flow, we may only respond to those candidates that we think will be a potential fit.
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