Software Engineer, Reliability & Platform (Fintech)
Location: New York, NY (in-person)
Company: Alinea Invest
Alinea is building the investing platform for the next generation.
- Post-Series A
- 2.5M+ downloads
- 200K+ funded accounts
As we scale, system integrity, performance, and platform stability are foundational to user trust. We’re hiring a Software Engineer, Reliability & Platform to strengthen and evolve the technical foundation of our product across mobile, backend services, databases, and AWS infrastructure.
This is a deeply technical, cross-stack role with meaningful architectural impact.
Tech Stack
- Swift + SwiftUI
- Node.js (Express) + TypeScript
- MongoDB
- AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, CloudWatch, CodeDeploy)
You should be comfortable understanding and improving systems across the entire stack.
What You’ll Do
- Lead deep investigations into complex production issues across iOS, backend services, and cloud infrastructure
- Perform root-cause analysis spanning API layers, async workflows, data models, third-party integrations, and infrastructure
- Improve backend service reliability, correctness, and performance in Node.js + TypeScript
- Optimize MongoDB queries, indexes, and data access patterns
- Strengthen AWS infrastructure stability across EB, EC2, deployments, and monitoring
- Improve observability using structured logging, metrics, and CloudWatch
- Reduce recurring bug classes by improving validation layers, error handling, and system boundaries
- Strengthen CI/CD and release processes to reduce production risk
- Build internal tools and scripts that improve debugging efficiency and engineering velocity
- Partner closely with product and engineering to drive platform-level improvements
What We’re Looking For
- 3–7+ years of engineering experience
- Strong debugging skills in live production environments
- Deep understanding of APIs, async flows, and distributed system failure modes
- Experience building and improving services in Node.js + TypeScript
- Comfort navigating and contributing to Swift/SwiftUI codebases
- Strong understanding of MongoDB performance and data modeling
- Experience operating systems in AWS environments
- Ability to trace issues across multiple layers of the stack
- Structured, systems-oriented root-cause thinking
- High ownership and strong execution in fast-moving environments
Strong Plus:
- Fintech or payments experience
- Experience improving production monitoring and alerting
- Experience hardening deployment pipelines
Impact
You will directly influence platform scalability, stability, and performance as Alinea continues to grow funded accounts and product complexity.
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