ABOUT US

NextCapital is the leader in enterprise digital advice. NextCapital partners with world-class institutions to deliver personalized planning and managed accounts to individual investors, whether they’re saving for retirement in a 401(k) or IRA or investing in a taxable brokerage account. Our open-architecture digital advice solution provides better outcomes for our partners and individual investors by offering integrated account aggregation, analytics, planning and portfolio management, and customizable advice methodology and fiduciary roles.

JOIN OUR TEAM

Our ability to be successful starts with our people, and we’re looking for someone who is passionate about developing and supporting our cloud-based SaaS platform. Our platform is built on AWS so our ideal candidate is excited to work on a public cloud platform. As our platform continues to grow our infrastructure and tools must grow and adapt as well. The DevOps Engineer I is interested in growing, learning and contributing.

Learn more about NextCapital at www.themuse.com/companies/nextcapital

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Learn how to deploy via our continuous integration and deployment process using Ansible, Jenkins, Packer, AWS CodePipeline and AWS CloudFormation.
• Collaborate with our development teams within our Agile development processes
• Create or enhance automated testing to improve our infrastructure
• Write code to support our infrastructure and applications
• Maintain multi-AZ and multi-region AWS hosted environments
• Test and maintain our disaster discovery environments
• Monitor, identify, and solve performance and reliability issues with our environments hosted on EC2, RDS and other services
• Create and maintain documentation

WHERE THIS ROLE MAY LEAD YOU

• You will grow to design and take ownership of systems used to deploy and support our application
• You will help determine the direction that the DevOps resources will follow as the environment continues to evolve and mature

Requirements

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• You must be able to communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively
• You’ve worked or practiced one of the following for at least 1+ year(s):
  • DevOps
  • Software Development
  • Systems Administration / Operations
• You have experience building and/or supporting production applications
• You have interest in learning the SDLC, promoting applications from development all the way to production
• You are passionate about application reliability and automating everything
• You enjoy working on variety of different projects and try to continuously improve systems and processes
• You have a BS or MS in Computer Science, related field (Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Math/Physics, Software Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering), or equivalent professional experience

Benefits

WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT

• Disrupt the financial advice industry by bringing affordable, easy to use financial tools to millions of people
• Have a direct impact on the growth and scale of the company
• Enjoy a laid back work environment & learn from FinTech’s best & brightest
• Receive great benefits like stock options, 401(k) match, and top notch health benefits
• As the COVID-19 pandemic cools down, participate in company-sponsored cornhole leagues, Thursday After Hours (cards, video games, treats), company outings, wine tastings, fantasy sports leagues, hackathons and other fun events
• Relax with monthly, company wide, guided meditation sessions
• Participate in women in tech events and service days at local organizations
• Enjoy “Summer Hours” whereby our firm is ‘closed’ every Friday afternoon from April 23, 2021 through Labor Day

• Enjoy the flexibility of working fully remote, partially remote, fully physical, or a mashup of each. And whatever you choose, enjoy a newly built-out office on Michigan Avenue with a view of Millennium Park and Lake Michigan
• And, yes, in our physical space, you can sip locally roasted coffee, kombucha, or craft beer at your modular sitting/standing desk