Sr. Platform Engineer (X2)
High Counry Search
A well-established, mission-driven fintech organization is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join its growing technology team. This company is investing heavily in modern platform engineering, cloud automation, and AI-driven development practices to improve software delivery and developer productivity across enterprise-scale financial systems. They are widely recognized as innovators within the fintech space.
This is a high-impact, hands-on engineering role for someone who wants ownership, visibility, and influence. Sitting at the intersection of platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and software development, this position will play a critical role in building internal developer tools, automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native platform capabilities that support large-scale engineering teams. This will be a hybrid onsite/remote position located in Denver, Colorado. As such, only candidates local to this area will be considered.
The ideal candidate is both strategic and execution-focused—someone with software engineering and DevOps experince.
General Responsibilities:
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Champion modernization initiatives by accelerating adoption of cloud-native engineering and AI-assisted development practices.
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Spend the majority of your time hands-on designing, building, and maintaining platform tooling, APIs, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure frameworks.
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Develop and maintain internal developer tools and self-service capabilities that streamline onboarding, deployments, provisioning, and operational workflows.
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Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code solutions and cloud automation frameworks within Azure environments.
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Support observability and monitoring initiatives through telemetry, dashboards, alerting, and platform visibility improvements.
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Partner closely with engineering teams to improve developer workflows, platform reliability, and software delivery velocity.
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Research emerging technologies while mentoring engineers and promoting engineering best practices.
Required Experience:
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4+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production-grade applications and platforms.
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Hands-on Azure cloud experience, including CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps, API Management, Container Apps, or related services.
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Strong hands-on development experience with C#/.NET, Python, or Typescript/Node.js.
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Experience building REST APIs, automation services, and scalable cloud-native systems.
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Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform.
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Recent experience leveraging Generative AI tools and prompt engineering techniques, including GitHub Copilot.
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Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including design patterns, automated testing, CI/CD, and version control.
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Familiarity with modern architectural approaches including Domain-Driven Design (DDD), event-driven systems, and Agile methodologies.
Compensation Package:
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Salary $150k–153k base
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10% annual bonus
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80% employer-covered healthcare benefits
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401(k) with employer match