Position: Senior Founding DevOps Engineer (good pay + equity)
Company: Portabl
Experience required: 5y
Category: DevOps
English level: fluent
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Senior/Founding DevOps Engineer**
**$90k – $120k • Equity 0.25% – 1% • Remote**

**About Company**

**Portabl**

**The OS for universal financial identity**

Portabl provides a decentralized financial identity toolkit that bridges Web2 and Web3, providing the most inclusive ID infrastructure and mobile wallet for financial services. 
As our financial lives become increasingly digital and spread across multiple services and providers, consumers need a way to centrally own their financial identity, avoid the guesswork of account opening and maintenance, and take their identity wherever they go.

**Why We Exist**
Banks struggle with gathering and understanding the applicant data needed to serve a complex, growing population. Meanwhile, millions of consumers lack a central, trusted way to access and onboard seamlessly to their best options while maintaining easy and transparent control over their identity data.
This has become increasingly complex as millions of consumers bridge the Web2-Web3 divide to manage different parts of the financial lives and have to manage different types of anonymity and non-anonymity depending on the provider.
We think people should be able to take their validated identity data wherever they go in the financial system and have the trust that service providers can confirm their identity in seconds, not minutes or days.
Portabl is building the most inclusive ID infrastructure and mobile wallet for financial services that allows consumers to own and manage their data across traditional finance and DeFi.

**About the role**
We are an early stage company, backed by leading investors Pear, the MBA Fund, and Rough Draft Ventures. We are further supported by a strong bench of formal and informal advisors with decades of financial, tech, and regulatory experience.
In your next adventure at Portabl, we are counting on you to bring technical leadership, FinTech and DeFi curiosity, and a willingness to learn fast to fundamentally change how people protect and share their personal data with the financial system and use it to transparently access and update accounts and services.
We offer a competitive mix of salary and equity compensation for a company of our stage and size and plan to scale our packages as we grow.
If you are seeking an opportunity to build a next-generation platform from the ground up within a mission-driven company, then this is the role for you.

**What to Expect**
Focus on infrastructure and back-end engineering, integrations with banks and financial services (our business customers)
Contribute to definition of overall architecture and implementation of our decentralized identity stack so that it is scalable, resilient, and secure.
Contribute to open source and open API projects that support the newest financial and regulatory policies
This is an amazing opportunity for someone who excels in a fast-paced environment, loves solving complicated problems, and doesn’t shy away from what sometimes may feel daunting. You will collaborate with our founder, designers, engineers, interns, and external partners.

**Things about you that excite us**
- 5+ years of DevOps practice with a track record of building and delivering mission-critical, 24x7 production software systems
- Proficiency with K8S, Helm, Terraform
- Proficiency at managing applications in AWS and familiarity with all of their core, compute, networking, storage, security, compliance, serverless, and analytics offerings including AWS VPC networking, and IAM roles, etc.
- Proficiency with GitLab CI/CD
- Proficiency with ELK stack
- Knowledge of various monitoring tools
- Proven experience with modern microservices and cloud-based architectures
- Experience with NodeJS
- A love of autonomy, critical thinking, and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information
- Exceptional programming skills and knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability
- Bias toward collaboration, inclusivity, kindness, and humility.
- Hands on familiarity with - or deep interest in decentralized identity technology, blockchain, and self-sovereign identity (SSI) solutions
- Know Your Customer (KYC) or Identity Verification (IDV) industry knowledge/experience is nice-to-have