About Us
Functional Finance is a growing fintech startup on a mission to revolutionize financial operations for tech-forward insurance companies. We provide a financial operations software platform that serves as an API-driven embedded solution. Our platform helps insurance operators automate and own all aspects of money flow, from checkout and financing through payables and refunds.
Functional Finance was created by a team with deep industry expertise, inspired by the challenges CEO Rashmi Melgiri faced in her previous role as co-founder of CoverWallet. We're passionate about building innovative solutions that empower insurance companies to streamline their operations and improve efficiency.
Overview
We’re looking for a Sr. Infrastructure Engineer to join our engineering team and help us build scalable, secure, and efficient backend systems, with a particular focus on payment processing and financial flows. As the Sr. Infrastructure Engineer, you will lead the team in building the infrastructure and tools that power reliable, scalable, and secure engineering operations across the company.
Key Responsibilities
- Build robust, easy-to-use infrastructure and tools that enable engineering teams to provision and operate services rapidly, consistently, and securely.
- Establish, maintain, and refine the monitoring and alerting systems that ensure the health, performance, and reliability of Functional Finance’s infrastructure
- Eventually own and lead Kubernetes migration and distribution
- Influence and educate the engineering organization to adopt new and improved architectural patterns.
- Provide robust documentation for use by engineers to promote self-service.
- Take ownership of our GCP platform, improving reliability, operability, and cost efficiency
- Contribute to core application working at the intersection of our python codebase and infrastructure stack
Qualifications & Skills
- 7+ years of applicable experience in Infrastructure engineering or DevOps
- Experience building infrastructure with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud or AWS
- Building, operating, and innovating clustering solutions for Kubernetes platforms
- Experience building web applications, ideally using Python, Postgres, and FastAPI
- Experience utilizing CI/CD platforms to automate provisioning infrastructure, software builds, tests, and releases.
- Experience building and maintaining scalable high availability applications.
- Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or similar.
- Empathy to support the needs of software engineers.
Compensation & Benefits
- Estimated compensation range $175,000-$225,000. Actual compensation may vary based on applicant’s education, experience, skills and abilities, internal equity, alignment with market data, and possibly applicant’s geographic location.
- Stock Option grant, subject to Board approval
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Flexible time off, plus federal holidays
How We Support Our Colleagues
- Twice a year in-person company offsite
- We encourage a diverse workforce
- Agile, inclusive environment that allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Functional Finance
- An innovative, diverse work environment where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves
Our Workplace
At Functional Finance, we foster a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their best work. We are a fully remote U.S. based workforce, to allow you to do your best work where you do your best work.
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
To be eligible for this position, you must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
Join us at Functional Finance and be part of a diverse and inclusive team.
Email us to apply

- Email careers@functionalfi.com.
- Attach a PDF resume to the email.
- Include the job title you are applying for in the subject line.
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