Development Operations Engineer

Activehours is reinventing the way people get paid by giving them immediate access to the money they’ve earned. We’re looking for passionate hackers, thinkers, and innovators to push our product even further. We celebrate victory, don’t shy from failure, and are always learning.Join our tight-knit team in a highly collaborative environment, where you’ll help shape the next generation of our platform from inception to production. Your code will help people access their pay and change their financial futures. If that sounds like your dream job, we want to hear from you.Job DescriptionWe are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to lead the way in our platform automation and site reliability. Working closely with a small team, the ideal candidate will make big decisions on the future of Activehours. You will be expected to lend your experience to shaping, defining, and tweaking all of our key systems as we scale beyond hundreds of thousands of users. Based in Silicon Valley, this position reports directly to the VP of Engineering.QualificationsSkills & RequirementsWho you areSmart: You have a broad skillset and learn new technologies quicklyPassionate: You’re driven to build tools that impact people’s livesCollaborative: You excel working both within a team and cross-functionally with other teamsLoyal: You will take up arms (Nerf guns) to defend your teammates against attackersLearner: you’re not afraid to learn from failure and tell others about your mistakesWhat you’ll doAutomate everythingContinuously improve our visibility into our systems and applications with advanced monitoring, metrics and log analyticsIdentify root causes on critical problems throughout the platform & take steps to resolve themCreate & follow-up on site incident reports and see them through to resolutionCommunicate across third party services to resolve day-to-day issues and relay updates to the teamBuild and deploy tools to ensure the health and reliability of Activehours systemsArchitect & manage product release workflow & live deployments with continuous delivery systemExperiment with technologies and share learnings with the team to push our tech-forward mentality5+ years combined experience as software engineer, software engineer in test, systems administrator, site reliability engineer or any combination of rolesYou are proficient at writing code and do so in order to automate infrastructure, improve system reliability and optimize continuous delivery pipelinesAdditional InformationWe're a group of passionate and experienced developers split between Cincinnati and Palo Alto. Our Cincinnati team has a strong background in financial services and back-end development, while our Palo Alto team is focused on mobile development, growth hacking, and data processing and analytics. We collaborate throughout the day on via Slack, FaceTime and Hangouts. We work in a very collaborative and fun environment, free drinks and snacks, lunch catered in on Fridays. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-09-17