DevOps Engineer

Posted Aug 5

Who we are

We exist to make investing in the private markets as easy as Robinhood did for public stocks. More and more people invest in private equity and venture capital every day. Even though this asset class has been around for decades, it wasn't built to handle this volume of investors. Signing up for Robinhood? It takes two minutes. Investing in a VC fund? You've got to fill out a 200-question questionnaire each time that you make an investment. The forms aren't standardized and not every question applies to every investor. Investors miss questions or answer the wrong ones and then have to redo the entire thing.

We built a TurboTax-style workflow for investors to only see the questions that matter to them and see every question that matters to them to make fund closing (i.e. the process of investing into a VC fund) easy. Our world record document completion time is two minutes.

That may sound boring but we've processed billions of dollars for thousands of investors. And by having an investor run through our workflow, we capture their identity so we can allow them to repurpose it wherever they'd like in the future. We call this an "investor passport" and it's the whole reason we built this business. This is the first fund workflow that we're automating.

The problems you’ll solve

Passthrough’s customers and partners include large institutional fund managers, banks, and law firms who have sophisticated requirements. In order to work with them, we need to embody security, IT, and compliance excellence.

We have big goals and limited time and resources. You will need to help empower the engineering time to be more productive.

We’ve already helped our customers raise billions of dollars and with your help we will increase that to trillions. Our customers are counting on us to safeguard their most sensitive information and help them raise money in a usually time sensitive process. As such, it’s crucial that we be secure and reliable.

First year roadmap

The tentative roadmap for the first year is as follows. We will work together to figure out the details but at a high level these are our priorities for the first year, with each project taking roughly a quarter.

Projects:

  • IT
  • We currently use a mix of Macbooks, Chromebooks, and Linux Workstations. We manage these with JAMF, Google Workspace, and custom scripts. We’d like to simplify our IT posture and make sure we’re able to lock down, delete, recover, and centrally manage devices organization-wide. You’ll be in charge of evaluating and implementing different systems to simplify and automate IT.
  • ISO Audit
  • We undergo annual SOC II type 2 audits. We’d like to also get ISO 27001 certification. You’ll be in charge of upgrading our infrastructure across the board for ISO 27001 readiness. You’ll work with all aspects of the company and collaborate closely with the CTO and Chief Legal and Compliance Officer.
  • IaC
  • You’ll help us migrate to an Infrastructure-as-code system such as Terraform.
  • Build System
  • You’ll help us migrate to a build system such as Bazel.

Technologies we use

  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Serverless architecture - Cloud Run, Cloud Functions
  • Enterprise APIs, such as Docusign and Sendgrid
  • Python
  • JAMF
  • Linux and MacOS
  • Docker
  • Postgres
  • Django/Django REST

The team you’ll work with

The engineering team is currently a close-knit group of 6 that are a mix of NYC-based and remote. We know how to build engineering, product, and revenue generating businesses in this space. We’re fast paced and highly collaborative. Engineering plays a critical role in product decisions and works closely with the founders and all departments. We work in week-long sprints, where we decide which projects the team should focus on and which projects we personally would like to work on. This gives us all autonomy to direct our day-to-day tasks in addition to our larger career goals.

Qualifications

Required

  • Expert in Google Cloud Platform
  • Experience managing and implementing InfoSec policies
  • Python
  • Terraform
  • Familiarity with SQL
  • Ability to learn and adapt quickly
  • Comfort with ambiguity in a fast-growing startup

Desired

  • Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or related frameworks
  • Experience managing and implementing IT policies
  • CI/CD
  • Clear, concise communication skills
  • Enthusiasm to be stretched beyond a standard engineering role
  • Interest or experience in financial or wealth tech

What to expect in the hiring process

We go through the same interview steps for all engineers to ensure equity in our hiring process. All roles also require a background check.

Our process is designed to learn as much about each candidate as possible, as well as to give candidates access to our team and learn about what it's like to work at Passthrough.

  1. Initial screen: Have a quick 20-30 minute chat with our CTO and co-founder Alex to learn more about each other
  2. Technical screen: A take-home exercise to implement a new service with Terraform and Google Cloud
  3. On-site Interview: 2-3 45-minute technical screens with our co-founder Alex and others from the engineering team. Those screens will be followed up by 2 separate 30-minute meetings with the other co-founders, Tim and Ben.
  4. Get a decision: We’ll get back to you within a week on what’s next