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Job Summary:
Origence is a leading company in fintech innovation, providing SaaS lending solutions for credit unions in the United States. The Sr. Platform Engineer will design, build, and maintain internal tools and platform capabilities to enhance software delivery across the organization, focusing on automation and developer productivity.
Responsibilities:
• Build and maintain YAML-based CI/CD pipeline templates in Azure DevOps used by dozens of teams and hundreds of services.
• Design and develop internal tools, CLIs, and REST APIs that enable self-service for product development teams (e.g., automated onboarding, pipeline generation, environment provisioning).
• Write and maintain Terraform modules for Azure cloud infrastructure, including Container Apps, API Management, networking, and disaster recovery.
• Extend and integrate Datadog monitoring, build custom dashboards, automate alerting, and instrument platform telemetry using OpenTelemetry patterns.
• Help build and evolve our Internal Developer Portal (IDP) to give developers a unified view of their services, deployments, health, and documentation.
• Help legacy systems adopt modern CI/CD, Blue/Green deployments, and DR capabilities through template-driven approaches.
• Build automated compliance gates and security checks that let teams move fast without moving dangerously.
• Collaborate directly with product developers to understand workflows, reduce friction, and deliver platform capabilities that meet real needs.
• Spend the majority of your time actively designing and coding. A portion of your time will be spent researching new technology and mentoring other engineers.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related industry experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience — you have built and shipped production applications, not just configured infrastructure.
• Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose language: C#/.NET, Python, or TypeScript/Node.js.
• Experience with software engineering fundamentals: design patterns, automated testing, code review, version control, and CI/CD as a practitioner.
• Azure cloud experience — working knowledge of Azure services (Container Apps, App Services, Azure DevOps, API Management, or similar).
• Hands-on experience with Terraform (preferred) or equivalent Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Experience designing and building REST APIs or automation services.
• Recent experience utilizing Generative AI techniques including GitHub Copilot and Prompt Engineering techniques.
• Ownership and accountability mindset with strong decision-making, communication, and analytical skills.
• Can effectively lead technical initiatives and collaborate on design/requirements while gathering the necessary information for development.
• Ability to write clear documentation, explain technical decisions, and collaborate across teams.
• Knowledge of various LLMs, Agentic AI, RAG, MCP and incorporating these technologies from both automation and feature engineering standpoints.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies, Domain Driven Design, and event-driven architecture approaches.
• Deep expertise in their chosen technology stack with broader knowledge of various programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Ability to break up larger projects into individual pieces, assess complexity of each piece, and balance work amongst team members.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced / flexible environment that practices SAFe / Agile based SDLC.
• Sets high standards for behavior and performance, models the values and principles of the organization, and inspires others through action.
Preferred:
• Experience building internal developer tools, platforms, or productivity tooling.
• Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or other observability platform experience.
• Azure DevOps pipeline authoring (YAML templates, variable groups, service connections).
• Experience with developer portals (Backstage, Cortex, or similar).
• Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps).
• Experience working in a platform engineering, SRE, or developer experience team.
• PowerShell scripting for Windows-based enterprise environments.
• Financial services or regulated industry experience.
Company:
Origence delivers automation solutions to credit unions, banks and mortgage banks to increase efficiency. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in Irvine, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.