Production Support Engineer

Amount is the premiere digital transformation partner for financial institutions committed to the future of banking and to creating safe and personalized customer experiences that help people better manage their financial lives. Our fully integrated and flexible platform is built on years of digital lending experience, enabling digital agility within months and a full suite of end-to-end consumer, small business and embedded finance solutions that fit the way people want to bank.

Inclusion, diversity, and belonging are core to Amount's values, and we believe they are more than words, they are actions. We support our commitment to these ideas by empowering intrepid engagement and learning, increasing diverse representation, and fostering a culture where everyone can bring their full self to work without regard to differences. We look for people who embrace this culture.

A DAY IN THE LIFE:

The Production Support Engineering team plays a key role at Amount by ensuring production issues are managed efficiently and effectively. You will manage high priority issues to resolution following industry best practices. You’ll troubleshoot, fix, and apply workarounds to resolve technical issues across multiple platforms. Each day, you’ll interact with every aspect of our organization in order to find the best solution for our partner. Management of ticket queues, monitoring for issues and post-release validation are also a large part of this role, all while meeting our partner’s SLA requirements.

Team: This role interacts with nearly every group within the organization, including engineering, product, QA, customer success and others.

Salary: $63,000-73,000 base salary

Benefits & Perks: Check them out HERE!

Similar job titles: Production Support, Production Support Analyst, Incident Manager, Incident Coordinator, IT Major Incident Manager, Application Support Engineer, Support Engineer

WHAT WE’LL TRUST YOU TO DELIVER:

• Technical ability to deep dive into issues by querying tables, analyzing data and problem-solving
• Prioritization and triage of incoming requests/issues
• Drive incident resolution and lead conversations with cross-functional groups. Ask the right questions to help determine impact/priority and the correct route for resolution. Oversee a technical bridge, if required.
• Management of all incidents through the incident management lifecycle
• Documentation of all relevant events, getting status reports while driving decision-making and resolution
• Ensure stakeholders are updated according to predefined service level agreements
• Completion and ownership of the postmortem with appropriate root cause analysis performed
• Improvement suggestions to capture preventative measures that will avoid recurrences of incidents
• Investigate patterns that indicate larger overall issues, even if we don’t have the solution.
• Compilation of metrics on a weekly and monthly basis. Maintain dashboards for service incidents and ad hoc reporting as requested
• Play an active role during critical incidents which may occur outside of normal business hours. Nights, weekends, and holidays on an on-call rotation basis is a must
• Creation of runbooks or standard operating procedures (SOP) so we can all learn from each other and add to our knowledge base

WHAT YOU LIKELY BRING TO THE TABLE:

• Technical and/or engineering background, ideally with experience writing SQL queries
• Experience working with development teams in a fast-paced environment
• Basic knowledge or interest of any programming language such as Java, Python or Ruby
• 2 years of experience coordinating and executing major incidents, with demonstrated capacity to lead under pressure
• Previously collaborated with a wide spectrum of internal and external stakeholders
• Worked in an organization with a complex business environment
• Leadership skills with the ability to make quick decisions
• Familiar with ITSM/ITIL concepts
• You thrive being a self-starter, who can lead others during stressful situations
• Familiar with tools such as Confluence, Jira, and on-call management software such as PagerDuty and experience with error monitoring software (Sentry, Kibana)

ABOUT AMOUNT (TL;DR)

Founded: 2020

Employees: 150+

Locations: Chicago (HQ), New York, US Remote

Funding: Amount has raised $281M in total equity capital since inception, including most recently at a valuation of $1B. Investors include WestCap, Hanaco Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Invus Opportunities, Mastercard, and PSCU

Press: Amount Blog - Equity Raise, Business Wire, PR Newswire - Comerica, PYMNTS - PSCU, A Year in Review - Amount’s Blog, Builtin, The Financial Brand

Key Customers: TD Bank, Velera, Guaranteed Rate, Barclays, American Express, Citizens, Fifth Third Bank, Bank United, FIS, Associated Bank, Comerica

Social Media: LinkedIn, Built In, Twitter, Amount Blog

Tech Stack: Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, Lattice, G Suite, Atlassian, AWS, Python, Java, Ruby, GO, node.js, Temporal, Scala, Apache NiFi, Talend, Informatica, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Pandas, Looker, Argo, Airflow Luigi, Kubernetes, C#, JavaScript (for advanced concepts), ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, Microsoft SQL Server, Entity Framework (ORM for database interaction)