DevOps Engineer
As a member of the DevOps team, you will work closely with our development, QA and operations teams to automate and streamline our platform integration and deployment processes. You will select, configure, support and scale the tools and technologies used by our team to build a highly scalable and manageable environment. You will work on continuous deployment efforts for an ecosystem of applications maintained across multiple data centers and AWS. You will also look for ways to automate a number of existing support and event management processes.
You will be part of a fun, fast-paced and very collaborative team that is highly competent and passionate about what we do. As OnDeck is growing rapidly, career advancement potential is high.
Our current tools include the following technologies (and we’re open to more): Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Jira, Artifactory, Docker, AWS Service Catalog and Vagrant, plus insight tools like the ELK stack, Zabbix & NewRelic.
What excites us at OnDeck? Technology. Innovation. Small businesses. We believe in our team members and power their growth through challenging them every day and offering inspiring careers. We’re all about teamwork, passion and making an impact. Oh and having fun – Whether it’s community service events, book club meetings, team get-togethers or weekly social hours in the office.
OnDeck (ONDK) uses data aggregation and electronic payment technology to evaluate the financial health of small and medium sized businesses to efficiently deliver capital to a market underserved by banks. Through the OnDeck platform, millions of small businesses can obtain affordable loans. We are changing the way small businesses borrow money by combining our passion for Main Street with cutting-edge technology. We evaluate businesses based on their actual performance, not personal credit, and that’s enabled us to say “yes” more often and faster than traditional lenders.
Department summary:
Technology at OnDeck is a mix of building cutting edge systems to provide a world-class user experience to our customers and partners, aggregate mountains of data to make real-time lending decisions, and of course move lots of money every day. We have an emphasis on scalability, reliability and accuracy.
In this role you will:
- Enable Development and Operations to build and deploy our applications from code to internal and production environments
- Ensure adequate visibility into application viability and performance via monitoring, thresholding and alerting you establish
- Standardize, automate and document setup of environments
- Own and drive improvements to our build and release scripts, tools and processes
- Help define best practices automation, orchestration and configuration management
- Build tools for internal use to support production engineering practices
- Collaborate with peers on work estimation/planning and implementation of new versions/features of the tools
- Bring new automation technologies to bear to improve the quality of engineering efforts
Qualifications for success:
- 2+ years DevOps, tools and/or release engineering experience
- Strong Bash and Ruby or Python scripting
- Strong familiarity with Jenkins and distributed version control systems
- Ability to work with development, QA and Ops counterparts to clarify and tune requirements
- Strong *nix competence
- RDBMS DDL and DML competency
- Hands-on, self-starter
- Ability to grow & manage small team in future a plus
- Some java programing experience a plus
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher (or equivalent experience). Computer Science/Engineering major is preferable.
What we offer you:
- Medical, dental, vision, and life benefits from day one.
- Paid/flexible sick-leave, vacations, and holidays so you can take off the time that you need when you need.
- Up to four months paid parental leave for all new parents. Adoption assistance with reimbursement of up to $5K. We want you to have time to bond with your new bundle of joy.
- Order lunch on us from Seamless. You can order what you want, when you want and from where you want.
- We’ll match your 401(k) contributions and offer a discount through our Employee Stock Purchase Plan. All to complement your personal financial strategy.
- We want to help advance your career. Take classes relevant to your job and the first $5K is on us.
- Enjoy our annual company summer party, holiday party and department quarterly outings.
- Semi-annual Hackathons to give our teams a fun way to innovate together and come up with awesome ideas.
- Our partnership with SoFi gives you access to student loan refinancing, personal loans and even mortgages.
- We work hard, we play hard. Build or join an OnDeck intramural club, group, and/or sports team and be part of our OnDeck Community.
- Fully stocked kitchens with free snacks & drinks.
OnDeck Stats & In the News:
- In 2015, OnDeck & JP Morgan Chase partner to offer small business loans, named the biggest deal in the history of marketplace lending
- Our first $3 billion in loans led to 74,000 jobs and $11 Billion in U.S. economic impact.
- On December 17, 2014 OnDeck rings in the biggest NYC tech IPO since 1999
- OnDeck was New York’s largest VC-backed tech exit ever
Awards we've received:
- Fortune.com and Great Place to Work 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials, 2015
- Fortune/Great Place To Work Great Rated! People’s Picks: 20 Great Workplaces in Financial Services, 2015
- Crain’s New York Best Places to Work, 2013, 2014, 2015
- Colorado SHRM Best Companies to Work For in Colorado, 2015
- Built in Colorado, Top 100 Digital Companies in Colorado, 2015
- Forbes’ America’s Most Promising Companies, 2013, 2014
- Selling Power Magazine Best Company to Sell For, 2013, 2014, 2015
- Inc. 500|5000, 2013, 2014
- Crain’s New York Business Fast 50, 2013, 2014
As part of our dedication to maintaining an inclusive and diverse workforce, OnDeck provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, OnDeck complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
OnDeck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of OnDeck’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.
**No external recruiters or agents, please.**