Avant
Senior Platform Engineer, Data & Analytics
Chicago HQ, USA · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 90 days ago
PythonReactBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentDatabricksAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformPlatform EngineeringTemporalKafkaMachine LearningSparkAirflowdbtData EngineeringLLMsMLOpsCollaborationProblem Solving
About the role
- You will join a focused, agile team with significant autonomy and a mandate to innovate.
- If you are a curious, hands-on engineer who thrives on variety and wants to shape how a successful fintech scales its most critical capabilities, this is the opportunity for you.
- You approach unfamiliar tools and patterns with excitement and a desire to learn. - Pragmatism and Agility: You are a practical thinker who can critically evaluate tools and ideas.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement our next-generation orchestration layer, transforming it from a series of environment-specific instances into a unified, multi-tenant platform.
- Develop full-stack internal applications (Python backends, React frontends) that empower teams with self-service UIs for ingestion, transformation, and delivery.
- Collaborate closely with Data Engineering and Product teams to understand their needs, design robust solutions, and build the tools that accelerate their work.
- Move beyond the hype and contribute to the practical adoption of GenAI, focusing on applications that deliver real business value.
- Help define patterns and practices for building reliable, observable, and cost-effective GenAI systems in production.
- Build safe and effective sandboxes for developers to experiment with new tools and features.
- We believe that a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences helps us create the most innovative solutions for our customers.
- You can articulate complex technical ideas and proposals, fostering open and productive design discussions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and AWS services relevant to data platforms (e.g., S3, EKS, MSK, DMS, Glue).
Skills
- Enhance our MLOps platform to empower teams with self-service tools for the entire model lifecycle.
Compensation
- The base salary range for this job is USD $135,000 USD - $165,000 USD /Year
- Employees new to Avant typically come in below the midpoint of the pay range.
- The compensation range is based on the level outlined in the job posting, and compensation decisions are dependent on each applicant's experience, skills and abilities.
- [If an outstanding applicant's experience and skill level is above or below the qualifications outlined in the job posting, we reserve the right to make an offer at a different level than the one listed in this job posting, which may have a different compensation range.]
- This role is eligible for additional incentives, including an annual bonus.
Benefits
- Bonus Nice to Haves
- Our benefits include:
- Choice of great Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Plan options
- Flexible Time Off
- Flexible Work Environment - (i.e. Mon/Tues/Thurs in-person)
- Generous Paid Parental Leave, Adoption Assistance and Post-parental leave ramp-up program
Company info
- We show up to work as our whole selves and make sure others can too.
- We can only succeed when we do so as a team.
- The harder the problem, the more satisfying the solution.
- We are all owners of the customer experience.
- We believe that great ideas come from anyone and anywhere, that everyone is an owner who drives change, and that we have more fun when we work together.
- We're problem solvers who love collaborating with intelligent and highly-motivated people to reshape the face of digital banking.
- We foster a proactive engineering culture where you are empowered to identify and solve underlying problems, not just treat symptoms.
- You'll have significant autonomy and the opportunity to influence major platform decisions.
- Our team enjoys a hybrid work schedule (3 days/week in our Chicago Loop office) and a very quiet on-call rotation.
- We foster learning through team R&D time and company-wide hackathons.
- This role is based on our downtown Chicago Office, located in the Merchandise Mart.
- We highly value collaboration and our hybrid schedule (M, T, Th in-office) enables flexibility to balance work and individual priorities.
- Authenticity.
- Collaboration.
- Problem-Solving.
- Get Sh!t Done.
- Avant offers terrific perks and benefits, fun social events with employees who actually like hanging out together, and a flexible growth environment where trying your hand at new projects and being the active owner of your career path is encouraged and supported.
This listing is sourced directly from Avant's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.