Neo Financial - Senior Infrastructure Developer

Closed on February 3, 2024 and then re-opened Feb 29, 2024

• A history of creating and maintaining cloud infrastructure professionally; you’ve deployed resources and managed active applications on a cloud provider like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.
• You know your way around the web console (and other tools) for one or more cloud service providers.
• Experience creating infrastructure with code, using Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Ansible, etc.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines to automate how software moves from development to production.
• Understanding of how networks operate, how the internet works, how the web works, how data is transferred.
• Experience working professionally with common development tools like Git and Github.
• Strong scripting skills with Bash or similar; comfortable working in a Unix-based terminal environment.
• Working experience securing cloud deployments and APIs; familiarity with the systems of policies, roles or permissions in the cloud.
• Strong software development skills – we’re not picky about which language you’re best with, but programming is a big part of the role.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; experience working within development teams and with outside stakeholders.
• Great problem-solving skills, and the ability to work and research independently to find the best way forward.
• Knowledge of the current tech ecosystem, state of the art trends and announcements.

Come Build a Better Financial Future for all Canadians

At Neo, we’re building a more rewarding financial experience for all Canadians.

Life at a rapidly expanding tech startup is demanding, exhilarating, and not for everyone.

From world-class creative minds to brilliant engineers, it's high-performing people that make Neo a workplace with passion and purpose.

Since being founded in 2019, Neo has built incredible traction and is one of the fastest growing fintechs in Canada.

• LinkedIn’s Top Startup in Canada for 2022 and 2023
• Top-ranked mobile apps and credit cards
• Canada’s top-rated credit card
• Team of 700+ people
• 1M+ customers in 3 years
• 11K+ retail partners

High Performance at Neo

We recruit, hire, and build our company culture around these attributes:

Teamwork: We trust, respect, encourage, and show up for each other — through good times and hard. We’re on this mission not just for ourselves, but also for the people we work with — and ultimately, for our customers.

Ownership: We all have a stake in Neo’s success — so we go out of our way to do what needs to get done. We hold ourselves accountable to deliver on our commitments — to our customers, to our partners, and to our team. When we fall short, we find a way to do better in the future.

Professional Integrity: We’re asking millions of Canadians to trust us with their hard-earned money — so we hold ourselves (and each other) to the highest standards of integrity.

The role

Neo Financial is looking for a full-time Senior Infrastructure Engineer (AWS) in Calgary, AB.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Neo you'll be collaborating with a team of dedicated people to build, maintain, and improve upon our cutting-edge cloud architecture. Successful candidates make continuous improvements through a “configuration as code” approach to infrastructure and systems

What you'll be doing

• Working closely with Amazon AWS every day
• Crafting elegant Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules (using Terraform) to ensure repeatable and maintainable cloud deployments
• Improving containerized infrastructure behind our cutting-edge GraphQL microservice architecture in AWS (using ECS, Fargate, & more)
• Employing serverless solutions to achieve massive scale and reliability without breaking the bank
• Spinning up, maintaining, monitoring, and securing a variety of data platforms, including PostgreSQL, MongoDB Atlas, Elasticsearch, or Redis – we believe in using the right tool for every job
• Improving network design and AWS networking infrastructure to optimize for cost, performance, security and scalability
• Developing tools and improving processes to make it easier for developers to ship code and work with our cloud resources
• Jumping in on production incidents if they occur, and helping us learn and improve
• Developing tools and practices to detect and defend us from infrastructure-centric security attacks: bots, DDOS attacks, and other evolving threats
• Collaborating with stakeholders from across Neo to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable cloud solutions are available to everyone