Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About the role

At Hummingbird, we want to build better software to fight financial crime. Our engineering team is responsible for making that a reality. They dive deep into the problems that make financial crime fighting so difficult and design flexible, scalable solutions that empower our customers to catch the bad guys. Our product sits at the intersection of financial technology, data science, security, policy, law enforcement, and design. As employees at a small startup, software engineers at Hummingbird have the opportunity to wear many hats and learn and grow across a multitude of dimensions. The Trust team owns the platform that everything else runs on. As a Senior Software Engineer on Trust, you'll work on the infrastructure, security, and platform systems that keep Hummingbird reliable, secure, and ready to scale — including tooling and systems to support our growing base of enterprise customers with complex deployment and compliance requirements.

What you'll do:

• Support the underlying infrastructure that enables our platform to help fight financial crime. You’ll build developer tooling, manage our AWS environment using Terraform, make cross-cutting code changes, analyze scaling issues, setup and configure monitoring tools, and identify performance bottlenecks.
• Work with a small, passionate, and experienced team: We're a small team of mostly senior engineers and we love to do great work together. We're fully remote, but we make a strong effort to prioritize, design, and code collaboratively.
• Grapple with the challenges of working in a high security, high stakes environment: We work with some of the most sensitive data you can imagine and provide a critical service to our customers. Security, reliability, and correctness must always come first.
• Influence the overall architecture and hosting strategy: Great ideas come from everywhere. Everyone on the team has a voice in technical discussions, and is trusted to make significant decisions.
• Have the opportunity to grow into leadership: Hummingbird is growing rapidly. As we do, there will be opportunities for engineers to take on new roles in product, technology, or people leadership positions.

About you:

• 7+ years of experience with cloud hosted web applications, preferably with some startup experience.
• You love digging into complex problems and determining both the root cause and the best solution to fix.
• You're happy spelunking logs and running diagnostics to troubleshoot production issues.
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills and can explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You have experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and managing cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• You are comfortable working in a fast-paced, remote-first startup environment.