Senior Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure

About Us:

Monarch is a powerful, all-in-one personal finance platform designed to help make the complexity of finances feel simple again. Since launching in 2021, we’ve become the top-recommended personal finance app by users and experts. Our goal? To take the stress out of finances so our members can focus on what truly matters.

We are a team of do-ers led by experienced entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping our members reach their financial goals. We are hyper focused on building a product people love and continuing to evolve based on user feedback.

As a fully remote company (even before COVID!), we welcome applicants from almost anywhere. Our team collaborates synchronously mostly from 9 AM – 2 PM PT and embraces asynchronous work to stay connected across time zones.

Join us on our mission to transform lives by simplifying money, together.

The Role:

Monarch is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure to join our Infrastructure and Platform Engineering team during a period of hyper-growth. Reporting directly to the Head of Software Infrastructure, you will help to scale the infrastructure that powers our product, ensuring reliability, performance, and security at every layer. This is a high-impact role where you'll shape the foundation of our systems and help us scale to support millions of users.

What You’ll Do:

• Build and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

• Maintain and expand Monarch’s database infrastructure, including Aurora and RDS clusters, and support strategic efforts like sharding and scaling.

• Support our container orchestration systems (ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation

• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure our services are observable, reliable, and performant.

• Continuously evaluate and introduce infrastructure tools and practices that support developer velocity and platform scalability. 

What You’ll Bring: 

• 3+ years of experience working with large-scale production infrastructure with high traffic or data volume.

• Proficiency in Python for scripting and infrastructure automation.

• Experience with PostgreSQL administration or performance tuning.

• Deep experience with AWS services and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

• Experience with containerization technologies such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.

• Strong communication and problem-solving skills and the ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to Have’s:

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or Grafana.

• Experience participating in incident management processes.

• Knowledge of cloud networking concepts such as VPC design, subnets, routing, load balancing, and security groups.

• Strong documentation skills and clearly communicating in writing.

Typical Process:

• Recruiter Video Call 

• Hiring Manager Video Call

• Take Home Assignment

• Virtual “onsite” round consisting of 3 rounds

• Reference Checks  

• Offer! 

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Benefits :

• Work wherever you want! As a fully remote company with no central office, we want you to work wherever you are happiest and most productive. Whether that’s out of your home, a co-working space, or elsewhere.

• Competitive cash and equity compensation in a hyper growth, early stage company