Techstars CloudOps Engineer
Since 2017, Flourish has been on a mission to help financial advisors evolve from holistic advice to holistic implementation to better serve their clients and grow their businesses. We focus on independent Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs), delivering financial products that advisors can’t easily access today through beautiful, scalable, and easy-to-use technology.
Today, we work with over 1,100 RIAs that collectively represent more than $2.6T in assets under management across two products: Flourish Cash and Flourish Lending. Headquartered in New York City, we are an independently-operating, wholly-owned subsidiary of MassMutual Life Insurance Company.
Read on if you are interested in joining a dynamic, highly-collaborative, rapidly-growing startup—backed by the support and stability of a Fortune 500 company.
About You
You are an engineer, first and foremost. You are intimately familiar with designing and building cloud-native infrastructure following industry best-practices, especially when it comes to security. You are keen on automation and dislike repetitive tasks. You are not satisfied and will continually iterate on something until you feel it is done the right way. You are someone that has an ownership mentality and tries to always leave something in a better state than the way they found it. You have an insatiable curiosity and always ask: Why? You thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. You are a strong communicator, explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you.
You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
About the Role
Our mission is to provide innovative access to financial products that help RIAs secure their clients’ financial futures and the Flourish Engineers play a key role in doing just that. You will be at the forefront of high-impact, mission-critical projects that will enable us to sail into the next chapters of our cloud-native journey. Working with other engineers, you will bring ideas from the whiteboard to reality, providing input to key architectural decisions. You will be responsible for designing and building infrastructure as code following industry best-practices, especially when it comes to security. You will engineer self-service and automated solutions to enable application development teams to constantly move faster while ensuring compliance with security standards and requirements. You have working knowledge of distributed systems and cloud-native technologies, and are excited to work throughout the tech-stack to deliver a delightful experience for customers and coworkers.
Principal Responsibilities
- Being part of a passionate and creative team of engineers in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving environment at the forefront of high-impact, mission-critical projects that will enable us to sail into the next chapters of our cloud-native journey
- Designing, developing, integrating, testing, and monitoring all AWS infrastructure following industry best practices and standards in a secure and highly regulated environment
- Utilize AI-based tools for Infrastructure as Code Development
- Engineer self-service and automated solutions to enable application development teams to constantly move faster while ensuring compliance with security standards and requirements
- Build and pilot a next generation application platform centered around Kubernetes and its ecosystem of software
- Acting as a trusted partner for application development teams, advising and supporting their use cloud technologies
- Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Apply secure by design and secure by default patterns to AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure and platforms
- Champion cloud-native best practices and partner with application development teams on their implementation
- Automating your job away
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent working experience
- 3+ years of professional experience
- Strong programming and scripting skills with one or more languages (such as Python, Go, and Bash)
- Experience utilizing and deploying applications to a container orchestration platform like Kubernetes in a production environment
- Experience working with Linux operating systems and containers
Preferred Qualifications
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Math, Physics or Engineering
- Ability to work independently and as part of a fast moving team
- Ready to learn, but just as ready to teach
- Excited to build and launch businesses
- Professional experience designing and managing infrastructure in AWS with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools in a highly regulated environment
- Experience implementing or integrating with and utilizing application metric, logging, and tracing aggregation tools such as, but not limited to, New Relic, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Loki, and Grafana for troubleshooting, monitoring, and alerting
- Experience using AI agents, such as GitHub Copilot, for development
- Practical working experience with event driven architectures and message buses like Kafka
- Experience owning CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows
- Ability to design and develop event driven automations and/or workflows using AWS Lambda and/or Step Functions is highly desired
- Understanding of the SRE principles and/or a background in an SRE, operations, or system administrator role is a huge plus
At Flourish, we focus on ensuring fair, equitable pay by providing competitive salaries, along with bonus and incentive opportunities and benefits for all employees.
Base Salary Range: $152,100 - $199,600 plus bonus
Disclosures:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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- 5. (a) If you answered YES to the previous question, please list your family members employed by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company or affiliates and your relation to them. optional
- 6. (a) If you answered YES to the previous question, please give details (including dates, locations, etc) below: optional
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- 1. Are you legally authorized to work in the United States?
- 2. Are you currently authorized to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship (for example, H-1B, TN, employer based permanent residency), either now or in the future?
- 3. Are you at least 18 years of age?
- 4. Were you employed by a third party providing services to MassMutual in the past 5 years? (incorrect information may affect your benefit eligibility)
- 5. The Company's anti-nepotism policy restricts the hiring of family members of an employee in certain situations. For purposes of the anti-nepotism policy, family members are defined to mean: (a) Your current or former spouse, civil union partner/recognized domestic partner, parents, siblings, children, stepchildren, halfsiblings, grandparents, grandchildren, stepparents and stepsiblings; (b) children-in-law, parents-in-law, siblings-in-law; (c) your parent's sibling's children, parent's siblings or first cousins, if they reside with you; and (d) any unrelated person who you both reside with and are in a relationship with. Do you have any family members employed by Massachusetts Mutual life Insurance Company or any affiliates, including any of the following affiliates? MassMutual International LLC, The MassMutual Trust Company, FSB, MassMutual Global Business Services India LLP, MassMutual Global Business Services Romania SRL, Haven Tech (HITPS), Great American (Glidepath), Barings, Flourish
- 6. Do not disclose erased or expunged convictions. The federal Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act prohibits insurance companies from employing certain convicted felons in the business of insurance, regardless of when the conviction occurred. Have you ever been convicted of a felony involving dishonesty or breach of trust? California applicants only: 'crime' excludes any conviction more than 2 years old for a marijuana-related offense.
- By clicking submit, you attest that your application is accurate and complete.
- 8. Receipt of this application does not mean or imply that I will be employed.
- 9. The statements and information furnished by me to the Company, whether in this form or otherwise, are true and complete. I may be refused hire or discharged if at any time the Company discovers any falsification, omission or misrepresentation of fact by me.
- 10. I confirm I am not restricted by any restrictive covenant, non-solicitation provision or agreement not to compete which would impact my being employed or performing duties for the Company.
- 11. I understand that I may be required to sign an inventions and intellectual property, non-solicitation, confidentiality, code of ethics and/or business ethics agreement, as a condition of employment. I understand that if I am engaging in the Company's business I will be required to make and keep accurate regulatory and criminal disclosure information as a condition of employment.
- 12. I understand that employment with the Company is at will, for no fixed period of time. If hired, I will be free to resign at any time. Likewise, the Company will have the right to terminate my employment at any time with or without any reason or notice, except as specifically prohibited by law. No oral representation to the contrary has been made to me and I understand that no employee or representative of the company is authorized to make any such representation now or in the future.
- 13. I agree to conform to the rules, policies and procedures of the Company, including the Code of Conduct, which I acknowledge are subject to change at any time at the sole discretion of the Company.
- 14. (a) I have a close family member (spouse, spouse equivalent, dependent, parent, sibling) employed at or otherwise associated with the Company's outside audit firm (KPMG LLP).
- 14. (b) I was employed by the Company's outside audit firm in the past three years.
- 14. (c) I have a financial or business relationship or affiliation with the Company's outside audit firm or its members (partners, managers).
- 15. I understand that if employed, I will not engage in any outside activity that would create a conflict of interest with my MassMutual duties and will not engage in any personal sales activities, including maintaining or servicing a book of business.