Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails + DevOps)

Are you a Senior Ruby on Rails Backend Engineer with a passion for infrastructure and DevOps, looking to join a fun, fast-paced fintech environment?

Valiant Finance is an award-winning FinTech startup on a mission to simplify business lending. Our cloud-based platform helps thousands of Australian small businesses compare and apply for loans from over 80 of the country's leading lenders. Our platform doesn't just power our own services – it also drives the commercial lending capability for some of the world's most recognised brands

.Our global Enterprise Technology arm provides embedded finance experiences and orchestration infrastructure to enterprise clients. We pride ourselves on building and delivering category-leading tech products across the US, Australia and the UK for top-tier global businesses. We have a strong growth agenda and are always looking for top talent to join the pursuit of our vision to unleash the economic potential of every idea

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Our engineering team is remote-friendly but those of us who are Sydney-based like to work from our Surry Hills office 2-3 times a week to collaborate. "We’re looking for a talented engineer who excels at solving complex problems. The ideal candidate is adept at both shipping clean application code and maintaining healthy, secure, and scalable infrastructure."

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What You'll Be Do

ingAs a Senior Backend Engineer with a DevOps focus, you'll be instrumental in shaping both our platform and the infrastructure that powers it. Your responsibilities will inclu

• de:Designing and building RESTful APIs for our front-end applications and partn
• ersIntegrating with a range of external services such as Salesforce, Auth0, Cloudflare, and m
• oreArchitecting solutions that meet our high availability, security, and performance requireme
• ntsBuilding and maintaining our cloud infrastructure to support rapid growth, with an emphasis on automation, repeatability, and cost efficie
• ncyOwning CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows to help the team ship safely and of
• tenManaging infrastructure-as-code so our environments are consistent, version-controlled, and easy to maint
• ainImproving observability across the stack — logging, metrics, alerting, and tracing — so we can catch issues before our customers
• doStrengthening the reliability and security posture of our systems, from incident response to proactive harden
• ingWriting well-structured, tested, and documented code that's a pleasure to maint
• ainWorking closely with our Product, Design, and other teams to refine deliverables and bring new features to l

ifeA spiel about AI, and incorporating it into workflows while maintaining quality

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What We're Looking

ForWe're seeking a passionate backend engineer who enjoys working close to the infrastructure, can solve complex technical problems, and communicates solutions with e

ase.Required Experie

• nce:Minimum 5 years of commercial Ruby on Rails experi
• enceProven experience integrating with external
• APIsExperience with database design and performance tuning, particularly with Postgr
• eSQLHands-on experience designing, deploying, and maintaining cloud infrastructure with AWS or
• GCPExperience building and maintaining CI/CD pipel
• inesComfort working in a Linux environment and with command-line too
• lingExperience with testing frameworks like R
• SpecExperience with high-volume background job processing frameworks e.g Sid
• ekiqStrong experience designing and maintaining both public and private REST
• APIsStrong written and verbal communication sk

illsBonus Poi

• nts:Experience with infrastructure-as-code tool e.g. Terraform / Open
• TofuExperience with containerisation and orchestration e.g Do
• ckerExperience with observability and monitoring tooling e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or simi
• lar)Experience with security best practices (e.g., OWASP, STR
• IDE)Experience in high-volume production environments with strict availability
• SLAsKnowledge of the financial services industry (lending or corporate fina
• nce)A Computer Science de
• greeExperience navigating GDPR and/or SOC2 regulat

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Benefits & C

ultureWe're a remote-friendly team, but if you prefer an office environment, our Surry Hills space is open, dog-friendly, and empowering. We foster a culture where innovation is recognised and rew

• arded.Embrace your need for work-life balance with our hybrid working
• modelCelebrate the joy of starting a family with 12 weeks of paid parental
• leaveBring your furry friend to hang out in our brand new, dog-friendly
• officeCompany-wide events designed to honour and celebrate all the outstanding achievements of our amazin

g team
Most importantly, we're looking for someone who is ready to embody our core

• values:"Get S#!
• t Done"Thrive in th
• e PrideBe customer ch

ampions
Please apply via the link below or submit your resume to jobs@valiant