Engineering Lead, Platform Engineering

🕒 June 1

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Koalafi

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201 - 500 employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 Debt Financing on 2022-08

Finance • Fintech

Koalafi is a company that provides non-prime financing solutions, allowing more customers to make crucial purchases with convenience and support. By offering lease-to-own and second-look financing options, Koalafi enables retailers to accommodate a wider range of credit scores, helping close the financing gap for up to 47% of U. S. adults who don't qualify for traditional financing. Their services report payment activity to credit bureaus, thus helping customers build credit while making purchases easier and more affordable. Koalafi's data-driven applications ensure quick and confident customer approvals, supporting retailers in increasing conversions and consumer loyalty.

📋 Description

• Manage a team of engineers with full accountability for their performance, growth, and wellbeing • Own 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations — providing direct, constructive feedback that helps engineers grow • Build a team culture that is organized, reliable, and focused on impact • Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and delivery coaching • Be a strong technical contributor: carry significant engineering weight alongside the team and actively deliver on high-impact work • Translate architectural direction into sprint-level tasks the team can act on • Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines and delivery automation: ensuring deployment safety, consistency, and velocity • Improve observability and operational readiness across metrics, logging, distributed tracing, and alerting — including actionable dashboards and SLO-based alerting • Design and implement automation and self-service workflows using infrastructure-as-code, APIs, and developer platforms to reduce developer friction • Own incident response coordination: drive the process, communicate status, and ensure issues reach the right people • Participate in the on-call rotation and help drive improvements that reduce incidents and alert noise over time • Build and maintain operational runbooks, escalation paths, and documentation for team-owned systems • Drive production readiness as a continuous standard, not a one-time checklist

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure/platform engineering with demonstrated scope growth and increasing leadership responsibility over that time • Strong hands-on experience with Terraform in production (modules, patterns, environment strategy, state management) • Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production • Strong AWS fundamentals: practical experience with compute, networking, IAM, and production operations • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines • Strong observability fundamentals including metrics, logging, distributed tracing, SLO/SLI design, and alerting strategy • Experience building automation using Bash and at least one general-purpose language (Python or Go) • Strong troubleshooting skills: you drive root cause analysis and implement long-term fixes, not workarounds • Hands-on experience using AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) as a productivity multiplier in production engineering work • Comfort partnering with senior technical peers and sound judgment on when to consult vs. decide independently.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage • 20 PTO days + 11 paid holidays • 401(k) retirement with company matching • Student Loan & Tuition Reimbursement • Commuter assistance • Parental leave (maternal + paternal) • Inclusion and Associate Engagement Programs