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Senior Platform Engineer - Developer Experience and Internal Tooling

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💎 Seniority level: Senior, 5+ years

📍 Location: Canada

💸 Salary: 100000.0 - 120000.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: FinTech

🏢 Company: Shakepay👥 51-100💰 $35,197,607 Series A about 3 years agoCryptocurrencyBitcoinPaymentsFinTech

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: 5+ years

🪄 Skills: AWSDockerPostgreSQLBashKubernetesTypeScriptCI/CDTerraform

Requirements:
  • 5+ years of experience in a Developer Experience (DevEx), Platform, or DevOps role, with a proven track record of delivering impactful improvements.
  • Deep understanding of system architecture, infrastructure, and developer workflows, with experience optimizing monolithic applications and supporting internal tools.
  • Strong proficiency with automation and scripting languages (e.g., Bash, TypeScript, YAML) and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Expertise in GitOps, infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, and developer tooling (e.g., build systems, code quality tools, IDE integrations).
Responsibilities:
  • Shape the architecture of our monolith, introducing domain-driven design and a layered approach to improve modularity and maintainability.
  • Develop internal tools that enhance developer experience, including supporting and optimizing Retool and other engineering workflows.
  • Mentor engineers on improving their development workflows, tooling, and best practices.
  • Lead automation efforts to reduce manual toil, streamline CI/CD pipelines, and improve developer productivity.
  • Measure and improve DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) to drive engineering excellence.
  • Work closely with engineers to identify pain points in the development process and deliver impactful improvements.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure platform reliability and maintain a sustainable on-call experience.
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