Platform Engineer @ Hnry

Salary banding: $90,000 - $140,000 per annum ✨ At Hnry, we operate a policy of pay parity across our organisation to ensure that all Hnry staff are fairly and equally compensated based on their contributions and experience. The salary for this role will be determined based on the applicant’s experience.✨

💜 How to apply

External application: Complete the Hnry Job Application Form and we will be in touch! Wellington, New Zealand Permanent, full time We’re really lucky to have an Engineering team spread across three jurisdictions working on the Hnry product. While that gives us the opportunity to hire great people globally, we’re always especially keen to hear from those interested in joining the team from our founding city, Wellington. We’re really proud of the team we’ve built so far, and while we’re not actively hiring into the team right now, we’re always keen to connect with great engineers who are interested in what we’re doing - even if that conversation is for a little further down the track.

In this role, you would be part of the team that takes ownership of the infrastructure, performance, and security of the Hnry platform. Our Platform Squad is responsible for keeping our AWS servers and databases running smoothly, and making sure we’re set up to scale with confidence. If this sounds like something you’d be keen to be part of (now or in the future), we’d love to hear from you 🫶🏽.

🚀 Responsibilities

• Engaging with customers and all members of the business to actively identify problems and propose solutions.
• Designing and implementing improvements to the infrastructure and platform of Hnry, currently hosted on AWS.
• Identifying potential improvements to platform architecture and performance.
• Making incremental improvements to our existing, high-performance CI/CD pipeline and associated processes.
• Implementing new monitoring and reporting using DataDog to ensure high-availability APM.
• Following best practices in building a robust and reliable platform and encourage the same among colleagues.
• Take responsibility for the delivering functionality from concept through to production release and post-release maintenance.
• Produce work that meets the expected level of test coverage and improve test coverage across the existing codebase.
• Sharing your knowledge and ensuring that standards are maintained.
• Collaborate with and support other members of the wider Hnry team. unnamed (2).png pfp draft (Facebook Post (Landscape)) (24).png

💪 You will

• Have experience with AWS infrastructure for web apps (in particular we are looking for experience with RDS & ECS).
• Have experience optimising PostgreSQL databases.
• Confident with wide range of development tools including Git, Github, Linux, CI services like Github Actions & CircleCI.
• Be a team player; wants to work as part of a team, giving and receiving feedback.
• Be able to take complex problems, break them down, and build robust solutions.
• Approach problems with a curious mindset and empathy for the end user, always considering the impact of changes.
• Actively monitor systems, identify problems and propose solutions.
• Have excellent communication and collaboration skills - we work together and succeed as a team.
• Enjoy discussions about software/product design and crafting solutions.

Bonus points for the following:

• Have Ruby on Rails experience, or experience with another web framework.
• Experience building large scale systems.
• Experience being self-employed (freelancing, contracting etc) in any industry/profession.

🫵 How we work

• We follow agile practices, delivering improvements iteratively in small chunks. We track the impact of our work and measure ourselves on results, not the amount of code written.
• We’re growing fast, and are focused on building a well designed, scalable & robust platform. In some areas of the work (e.g. payment processing) there is very little margin for error.
• Our technology platform is built in Ruby on Rails, hosted on AWS services (via Terraform), Postgres, Docker.
• We have wide automated test coverage, continuous deployment via CircleCI, and our Engineering team release to production multiple times per day.
• We review each others code, and set aside time for hacking on experimental features, refactoring and/or learning new things.
• We work hard and finish on time, no crazy hours. unnamed (10).png Jayesh - Principal Engineer