Staff Engineer - SaaS

Octane® is revolutionizing recreational purchases by delivering a seamless, end-to-end digital buying experience. We connect people with their passions by combining cutting-edge technology and innovative risk strategies to make lifestyle purchases - like powersports vehicles, RVs, and OPE - fast, easy, and accessible.

Octane adds value throughout the customer journey: inspiring enthusiasts with our editorial brands, including Cycle World® and UTV Driver®, instantly prequalifying consumers for financing online, routing customers to dealerships for an easy closing, and supporting customers throughout their loan with superior loan servicing.

Founded in 2014, we’re a company with 550+ employees and over 30 OEM and 4,000 dealer partners.

Octane is currently hiring a Staff Engineer to build out SaaS solutions for dealerships and lending across the company. 

Responsibilities: 

• Gather requirements, define specifications including personae and use-cases, design, develop, test and build test automation, monitoring, and alerting for the resulting microservices-based SaaS solutions.
• Architect and optimize cloud solutions for high availability, performance, reliability, auto-scaling, and security. Maintain disaster recovery and continuity plans for all cloud services.
• Apply a strong understanding of cloud security principles and practices, including IAM, encryption, and network security to solution design. Ensure systems are compliant with industry standards and security regulations.
• Perform cloud cost optimization and recommend best practices for cloud resource management.
• Coach and support other engineers, within the immediate team and the larger organization.
• Stay up to date on the latest cloud technologies and best practices, and drive the adoption of those best practices org-wide.
• Be part of our on-call rotation and DevOps culture, to ensure the availability of our SaaS solutions.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or Engineering
• 10+ years of Software Development experience
• 6+ years of experience managing a live Cloud Solution in Production and with managing cloud resources hosted on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• 3+ years of experience with Python, React, and Typescript
• Familiarity with at least two public cloud platforms
• Hands-on experience with cloud monitoring, logging, and alerting tools
• Solid communication skills

Benefits:

• Robust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Generous Parental Leave
• Up to 5 weeks time off (self-managed)
• Retirement Plan (401k) with company match!
• Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $3K/year 
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Short Term / Long Term Disability
• Robust Ancillary benefits including accident insurance, hospital insurance, etc
• Wellhub (Gympass) Wellness Benefit
• Powersports Safety Benefit

Disclaimer:  The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by associates assigned to this classification.  They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.  All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Octane Lending is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment.

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