Paying bills sucks. It sucks even more for about a third of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, and struggling to pay bills on time. About 100 million Americans are at risk of paying overdraft fees if they auto-pay their bills, and are forced to manually log into and pay up to 10 biller accounts each month. Why are so many people wasting their time and energy manually paying bills to avoid overdraft fees? Because they are not using Gerald!
Gerald is a Y Combinator-backed technology company based in New York. Our platform combines fintech, payments, and big data to create an empowering and rewarding user experience for making timely bill payments.
Gerald is on a mission to eliminate stress about paying bills. Gerald provides consumers with overdraft and late fees protection for their household bills. We are transforming bill payments by providing consumers with an application for linking and automatically paying biller accounts. Our app tracks and pays bills so our users don’t have to. We offer banking services; direct deposits, credit building, cash advance and rewards to simplify bill payments for both billers and consumers.
We are looking for a senior Platform engineer with experience in building and scaling services in a cloud environment (AWS) who will stand as a technical leader across globally distributed Data Engineering and Software Engineering teams, making key decisions on the technical direction and tooling used to ensure operational alignment globally. You will be a passionate technologist who is excited about automation and engineering, and building future proof production reliable platforms, ensuring operational excellence is met throughout. Ultimately, you will help us meet the enormous challenges around managing the performance and reliability of a data-intensive product.