At Amount we have a thriving culture and possess a truly entrepreneurial spirit. We value innovation and individual voices, we are committed to active inclusion and diversity, and we support each other's growth. Most importantly, we’re always ready to hustle!

Amount is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer. At Amount we strive to build reliable and easy to use systems. We believe in measuring all aspects of our applications and infrastructure. Our focus on automation and process improvement enables us to accomplish innovative, scalable and reliable systems. This person will have a hand in the build of our CI/CD pipeline, deployment tools, monitoring, and will use technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS. We value constant self-improvement, honest feedback, clear communication and empathy for the users of our services.

If you’re ready to thrive in a fast-paced environment, come join an organization with visionary leadership and FinTech disruptors. With your help, we will continue to reinvent banking by helping our Amount platform partners innovate and digitize their banking products and services!

What you'll do at Amount:

• Prepare applications to work on Docker, Kubernetes, and other hosted systems
• Work with other engineers and technical product managers to write, test, and deploy your code safely and automatically to production. We deploy multiple times a day
• Ensure application health and resiliency
• Manage cloud resources
• Educate and evangelize software systems knowledge across engineering teams

Who you are:

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience
• Bachelor's degree in a field such as Computer Science, Information Systems, or related
• Our ideal candidate is someone with some experience in application development who has shifted into infrastructure. We use a mix of python, golang, ruby and bash
• Experience with infrastructure as code. Terraform, packer and ansible are our tools of choice.
• Experience with Linux operating systems and containerization
• Basic knowledge of networking resources - VPN, DNS, TLS/SSL
• Experience supporting production web applications
• You've worked with monitoring systems such as Sumologic, Datadog, and Prometheus
• Knowledge of development tool creation and application architecture design

About Us

Amount delivers the technology that financial institutions need to build and enhance the digital experience.

Built by digital lending industry veterans, Amount helps partners go digital in months—not years. Amount empowers multi-product omnichannel retail banking experiences and a robust point-of-sale financing suite underpinned by core platform features including fraud prevention, verification, decisioning engines and account management.

Amount partners can optimize performance across product categories by tapping into various service offerings including customer acquisition, funnel and performance assessments, and risk analytics.

Our values:

Optimistic: We believe technology has the power to improve the financial lives of everyone. 

Teamwork: We make the best technology work for our clients by working together. 

Risk Aware: We understand the impacts of each and every decision we make in our high risk industry. 

Integrity: We work honestly and undivided in our commitment to make more possible. 

Eager: We are self-starters, fully engaged and committed to pushing great ideas forward quickly and responsibly.

Respectful: We honor diversity, value inclusion, and create an environment of belonging for people of all backgrounds. 

Committed: We are dedicated to the highest standard for our partners, their customers, and our people. 

Curious: We seek to understand the core of each problem, enabling us to find the right solution. 

Benefits and Perks:

In light of COVID-19, we have transitioned to working fully remote, within the United States, temporarily. We will continue to work remote in accordance with the CDC and local health authorities' recommendations. Please consider that this position will not be remote long-term and our expectation is that this individual will join us in our Chicago or LA office when it is safe to do so. Note: International work is not permitted at this time.

Enjoy each other's company over virtual happy hours, yoga and meditation sessions, lunch and learns, team demo days, game nights, and more!

Take the time you need when you need it through our Flexible PTO policy.

Save $$ on taxes by using our commuter and transit benefits! We also have a bike storage room available onsite.

Take advantage of our comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision coverage, 401(k), parental leave, HSA match, and an Employee Assistance Program.

Interested in having a stake in Amount? We offer a meaningful equity program.

Have a pet? Then, we're paws-itively certain you're going to love our My Pet Protection plans.

Short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance are options too!