Platform Engineer

At Clarity AI, we are committed to bringing social impact to markets. We are a tech company started in 2017, leveraging AI and machine learning technologies to ensure environmental, social, and governance dimensions are the focal point of decision-making within financial markets.

We are now a team of more than 300 highly passionate individuals coming from all over the world. Together, we have established Clarity AI as a leading startup backed by investors and strategic partners such as BlackRock, Deutsche Börse, and Softbank who believe in us and share our goals. We have plans to continue growing our teams in Spain, the UK, and the US this year so if you would like to join us on this rocket ship, keep reading!

We are looking for a Platform Engineer; a passionate person with experience working in a Platform team following a DevOps philosophy.

If building a reliable platform that supports and boosts the development of ClarityAI products in a sustainable way excites you or if you have a constant need to learn better ways of doing your work, you’ll probably want to keep reading this.

We will love to see that these topics look familiar to you:

• IAC concepts
• Configuration Management concepts
• Monitoring & Observability principles
• Knowledge or experience using containers and containers schedulers (k8s preferred)
• Some knowledge or experience of AWS cloud platform or other cloud providers
• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English

Location: Madrid or remote within Spain.

Requirements

At this moment we have a hybrid architecture between the monolith and some microservices. We are thoroughly moving to a new architecture that may be closer to the microservices proposal and we would love to have you helping us.

We’re handling several stacks, like Java, node.js, Vue and a good bunch of python at this moment, and we use MongoDB and Postgres as the main storage systems.

We use Redis as a distributed real-time cache and RabbitMQ for communications between some asynchronous services.

What we need from you?

• Help us to improve our platform (Improving dev experience, reliability, scalability) using a lean approach.
• Help us to create a data platform and infrastructure optimized for developments using Machine Learning and massive data processing.
• Help us to improve the development experience.
• Help us improve our delivery cadence for ML/AI related products.
• Help us to spread the DevOps culture in the company.
• Be aligned with mision and principles of the team (accelerate product teams, platform as a product, self service, team collaboration, small safe steps, software/technology is a mean to and end, etc)

Our ideal candidate:

• Has from 4 to 8 years of experience.
• Has some previous experience with cloud-based services like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
• Has worked with Linux systems in production
• Has some development experience using python, go, or java

• Has worked with relational or non-relational databases
• Is eager to learn in a collaborative team environment
• Has interest in the DevOps engineering culture and practices
• Is able to identify and communicate problems to the team
• Pairs effectively with other team member
• Has a small amount of experience in one technology used by ClarityAI (Terraform, k8s, gitlab)
• Is able to ask for help when needed
• Lean/agile mindset

Benefits

Clarity AI believes diversity, inclusion, and belonging are essential for creating an innovative and successful workplace. Thats why we created our own ERG groups.

Our own ERG groups act as a voluntary employee resource group, they commit to promoting these values and creating a safe and supportive community for all employees. They are committed to creating a workplace that champions sustainability, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

To do this, they will advocate for sustainability initiatives, host and participate in events, workshops, provide a safe space for employees to share their experiences, ideas, and solutions, and collaborate with other departments and employee groups to improve the company's sustainability goals.

By actively promoting and engaging in sustainability efforts, we can help create a more equitable and resilient future for our planet and all its inhabitants.

We care about our employees. We think that every effort has to be rewarded and want them to feel comfortable with us.

• ESOP/ Phantom stock: We want our employees to really feel part of Clarity. That’s why we give them the opportunity to participate in our success with ESOP or phantom stock options.
• Training budget: Continued learning is important to us so we provide everyone with a yearly training budget.
• Amazing office in Madrid: We are located at Paseo de la Castellana 43 28046 Madrid Floors 5th and 6th floors.
• We are a US company with a Spanish and London subsidiary. We have offices in NY, London, Abu Dhabi and Madrid, and a remote culture.

Our investors believe in us and share our goals. We are a leading startup thanks to public and private funding.

Clarity has received several awards:

• Young Global Leader to Rebeca Minguela 2017.
• Top 10 Fintech startups worldwide by BBVA Open Talent.
• Top 2 start-ups with impact worldwide by IMPACT Growth 2017.
• One of the most innovative Spanish companies by NeoTec.
• One of the most innovative projects in the US. Harvard Innovation Lab.