Software Engineer (Founding DevOps)

Highbeam is building the future of business banking and cash management.

Our platform combines AI agents, automated financial workflows, and integrated financial products that save brands time and money.

Customers have generated billions in sales and include well-known brands such as Cuts, Tushy, NYON, Sabah, Still Here, Alice Mushrooms, Original Grain, birddogs, and more.

Our team includes alumni of Shopify, Square, Toast, Rippling, and McKinsey.

We’ve raised $42M in equity from Acrew, FirstMark, Mayfield, and Two Sigma Ventures.

About this role

We’re looking for a DevOps & Platform Engineer to take ownership of our cloud infrastructure, observability, and developer tooling. You’ll be the force behind our platform’s scalability, reliability, and security—ensuring our engineering team can ship quickly and safely.

This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure, developer experience, and backend systems. You’ll work closely with our backend, security, and product teams, and occasionally contribute directly to feature development.

Our stack: Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Kotlin, TypeScript / React, Python.

This role will be in-person in New York or Toronto.

What you’ll do

• Own and improve our GCP infrastructure (Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Run, BigQuery, IAM)

• Improve platform security, observability and reliability

• Tackle tricky backend optimization and Postgres performance questions

• Own and improve our CI/CD pipelines (faster builds, parallelized tests, incremental compilation)

• Improve IntelliJ/Detekt setup and build a common dotfiles repo

• Create and maintain our devtooling Dockerfiles

• When capacity allows, contribute to the product backlog

Who you are

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or backend infrastructure roles

• Deep experience with GCP, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines

• Strong knowledge of observability tools (Datadog, Sentry, tracing, monitoring best practices)

• Hands-on experience improving security in cloud platforms

• Comfortable writing backend code

• Familiar with Postgres tuning and optimization

• Proactive and self-directed—you thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

• Bonus: You have experience working in fintech or early-stage startups

You'll thrive at Highbeam if...

• You love working in-person with a high-performing team

• You enjoy working in an idea-meritocratic, low-ego environment

• You are proactive and self-directed, and you excel in ambiguous, fast moving environments

• You care about delivering a polished customer experience

• Bonus: You have experience working in fintech or early-stage startups

What we offer

• Chance to join the founding team of a well-funded startup chasing a huge opportunity

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity

• Great location: Our NYC office is in NoHo, a short walk from the A,C,E · B,D,F,M · N,Q,R,W · 1 · 6 trains. Our Toronto office is downtown near Osgoode Station.

• Generous PTO

• Comprehensive health & benefits package