Job Description
Qapital is looking for an enthusiastic and talented Senior Operations Engineer to join our team in Stockholm. You will be crucial in successfully configuring, evolving, maintaining, and designing new and existing infrastructure and platform components, for production, staging, and development environments.
If you join us, you’ll get to be part of a team that is changing the way people think about everyday banking. We are collaborative, empathetic, and pragmatic, and it’s important that this internal culture scales with us as we grow.
Responsibilities
You will be the in-house operations expert and work closely with the development team and operations consultants to pro-actively ensure that our platforms and systems are secure, scalable, maintainable and robust. Typical concerns would include scaling up and out, load balancing, monitoring and alerting. An active participation in continuous improvement of development tools and deployment pipelines is expected.
Skills and requirements
- At least three years of experience in a similar role.
- Technical operations experience running production systems based on Linux, we use Ubuntu.
- Experience with AWS, we use EC2, ALB, ElastiCache, RDS and more.
- Experience configuring, deploying and operating JVM-based applications.
- A DevOps, configuration management and automation mindset, previous experience with Ansible, Puppet, Terraform or similar tools is beneficial.
- Solid understanding of security concerns around backend applications exposing HTTPS-based API’s.
- Excellent communications skills in English, both written and oral. Swedish is not required. Must know how to effectively communicate with asynchronous, remote teams via email, Slack, Trello, etc.
- Great team skills, and a desire to get even better ones.
Experience with the following is considered a plus:
- Service discovery and secrets management.
- Cluster schedulers.
- NoSQL datastores, especially Redis.
- Java and the Spring Boot framework.
- Compliance, especially for the finance industry
- Apple hardware and software.
- Ubiquiti network equipment.
What do we offer?
This is a chance for you to accelerate your career within an international company and succeed in an environment where you will have the possibility to make a daily impact.
We offer you great responsibility for the entire process of the app development and you will be a part of a fantastic journey within a dynamic booming business.
Qapital is an entrepreneur-driven company where dedication and ownership is extremely important. Therefore we encourage all our employees to take part in our equity program.
Launched in 2012, and led by Founder & CEO, George Friedman, Qapital is a new kind of banking experience that empowers people to maximize their happiness by saving, spending, and investing with their goals in mind. By blending behavioral psychology with technology, Qapital provides people with the tools they need to make managing money easy and fun.
The Qapital app is designed to help users better understand their saving, spending, and investing habits by highlighting the tradeoffs made when managing money. It allows users to save for their real-life goals with customizable, automated deposits that are linked to their everyday actions, like riding the bus, going to the gym, or buying a coffee. To help users spend more intentionally, Qapital provides an FDIC-insured checking account, Qapital Visa® Debit Card, and Weekly Spending Target tool to track day-to-day spending. And for more long-term goals, Qapital Invest, which is set to launch in Spring 2018, will bring a goal-based and automated approach to the world of investing, offering users an effortless way to grow their money and plan for their future.
