Director of Platform Engineering (Fintech)

Location: Austin, Texas. Authorization to work in either the U.S. or Canada is required; employment sponsorship is not available. The role includes occasional travel to client sites, E6 offices, or company events.

Company

hirify.global provides cloud-native, API-based issuer processing and ledger infrastructure for banks and fintechs across 24 countries.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow the Platform Engineering team, setting priorities, engineering standards, and development paths.
• Own the roadmap, architecture, and quality of Infrastructure-as-Code used across PaaS instances, Kubernetes clusters, and AWS infrastructure.
• Adapt the platform for new clients, markets, regions, data-residency requirements, and local regulations.
• Drive platform upgrades, legacy-component retirement, technical-debt management, CI/CD improvements, and release tooling for hosted and on-premises clients.
• Lead complex infrastructure investigations and incident escalations through root-cause analysis and lasting engineering fixes.
• Partner with Operations, Software Engineering, Security, Compliance, Finance, clients, auditors, and senior leadership on reliability, compliance, cost management, onboarding, and technical reporting.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering work and at least 3 years in people leadership.
• Deep hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management, preferably Terraform and Ansible, plus Python and Bash scripting.
• Extensive experience operating production workloads on public cloud, with AWS strongly preferred.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Strong Linux background, including support for Java applications on Linux.
• Experience proactively identifying and resolving risks and opportunities, and leading complex infrastructure troubleshooting under pressure.
• Experience managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure costs at scale and working in regulated environments such as financial services.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for explaining technical trade-offs to engineers, executives, and clients.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in payments, card issuing, or a growth-stage fintech.
• Experience operating multi-tenant platforms across multiple regions and regulatory jurisdictions.
• Experience supporting hybrid-cloud or on-premises client deployments.
• Familiarity with payment HSMs, particularly the Utimaco Atalla AT1000 series.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, respectful, and supportive environment focused on professional growth and wellbeing.
• People-first culture with professional development from day one.
• Ability to work where needed, subject to the Austin-based role and employment eligibility requirements.
• Participation in an escalation rotation and occasional travel are part of the role.