Lead Platform Engineer

🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $174,000–$174,000🗓 2026-06-05 → 2026-07-31

Core

Lead a platform engineering team responsible for cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational readiness for a lease-to-own financing platform.

Role type

Senior IC/Manager Platform Engineer

Builds

Cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, developer platforms, and observability systems

Domain

Fintech / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

People leadership, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, observability, Bash, Python or Go, AI coding tools

Preferred skills

Istio, relational databases, serverless, distributed systems reliability, AI/ML infrastructure

Technologies

Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Bash, Python, Go, Istio, RDS PostgreSQL, Aurora, MS SQL, Lambda

Responsibilities

Manage team performance and career development, drive sprint execution and backlog translation, build and evolve CI/CD pipelines, improve observability and operational readiness, design automation workflows, coordinate incident response

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with people management

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About koalafi

Financial Services271Washington, DC, USFounded 2014

Koalafi offers convenient and transparent lease-to-own financing options that enable non-prime consumers to make life-changing purchases. With Koalafi, in-store and eCommerce merchants can help more customers get the things they need, while increasing sales and strengthening customer loyalty. Koalafi believes that financing should be more than a payment plan, so they offer customers clear terms, top-rated support, and credit bureau reporting.