Senior Software Engineer
Role summary
Hummingbird is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their remote-first engineering team focused on fighting financial crime. The role involves designing and building scalable, secure, and reliable platform infrastructure, including developer tooling and AWS environment management using Terraform. The engineer will tackle complex problems, analyze performance, and contribute to architectural decisions in a high-stakes, sensitive data environment. While not a direct management role, there are opportunities for growth into leadership positions as the company expands. Experience in the financial sector is a plus.
### Who you are
- 7+ years of experience with cloud hosted web applications, preferably with some startup experience
- You love digging into complex problems and determining both the root cause and the best solution to fix
- You're happy spelunking logs and running diagnostic tools to make sure you understand the problem
- You sail through ambiguity and enjoy jumping around the stack, touching everything from low level networking and file systems to database configuration and high level architecture
- Iteration is part of the fun. You’re not married to specific ideas or solutions
- You want your impact to go beyond the lines of code you write
- Safety first. You care about quality, testing, and security
- You like digging deeply into new technologies, new domains, or new ideas. You’re always looking for ways to leverage technology, such as AI, to make you and the rest of the team more efficient
- You want to build something exceptionally valuable and have a real impact on the world. You're excited to get your hands dirty in pursuit of that goal
- (Bonus) Experience in the financial sector, especially around compliance or fraud
### What the job involves
- At Hummingbird, we want to build better software to fight financial crime. Our engineering team is responsible for making that a reality. They dive deep into the problems that make financial crime fighting so difficult and design flexible, scalable solutions that empower our customers to catch the bad guys
- Our product sits at the intersection of financial technology, data science, security, policy, law enforcement, and design. As employees at a small startup, software engineers at Hummingbird have the opportunity to wear many hats and learn and grow across a multitude of dimensions
- The Trust team owns the platform that everything else runs on. As a Senior Software Engineer on Trust, you'll work on the infrastructure, security, and platform systems that keep Hummingbird reliable, secure, and ready to scale — including tooling and systems to support our growing base of enterprise customers with complex deployment and compliance requirements
- Support the underlying infrastructure that enables our platform to help fight financial crime. You’ll build developer tooling, manage our AWS environment using Terraform, make cross-cutting code changes, analyze scaling issues, setup and configure monitoring tools, and identify performance bottlenecks
- Work with a small, passionate, and experienced team: We're a small team of mostly senior engineers and we love to do great work together. We're fully remote, but we make a strong effort to prioritize, design, and code collaboratively
- Grapple with the challenges of working in a high security, high stakes environment: We work with some of the most sensitive data you can imagine and provide a critical service to our customers. Security, reliability, and correctness must always come first
- Influence the overall architecture and hosting strategy: Great ideas come from everywhere. Everyone on the team has a voice in technical discussions, and is trusted to make significant decisions
- Have the opportunity to grow into leadership: Hummingbird is growing rapidly. As we do, there will be opportunities for engineers to take on new roles in product, technology, or people leadership positions
### Benefits
- Competitive compensation: including cash and equity.
- 401k plan: Easily save for retirement with tax advantages.
- Flexible health coverage: Including health, dental, and vision.
- Monthly stipends: Enjoy a monthly health & wellness stipend, fueling the activities that bring you joy.
- Flexible work arrangements: Enjoy a remote-first workplace, home office stipend, and supportive work environment.
- Mental & reproductive health: We reimburse expenses related to mental and reproductive health.
- Safe and inclusive workplace: We strive to make Hummingbird a positive and supportive place to work.
- Team onsites: We're remote-first, but we make sure we make time to get togethe and have fun.
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