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# Engineering Lead - Infrastructure and Reliability at Narmi

- **Company:** Narmi
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $210k–$237k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/narmi/am9icG9zdDrRGkSiUAO1siWa1LM4MYd0

## Job description

About the Infrastructure Engineering team:

You will lead a small team focused on supporting and scaling our existing platform. We've gone from zero to hundreds of environments, we need your help to go from hundreds to thousands. We build on top of AWS so we expect experience with this provider or a demonstrated ability to quickly get up to speed with a new cloud provider. Some projects we are working on are:

- ECS scaling and optimization across multi cluster environments.
- Managing our Self-Hosted CI/CD Pipelines at scale. We launch thousands of workers per day.
- Owning the tooling and workflows for Narmi's ephemeral environments.
- Developing the next version of Narmi's Observability platform.
- Building towards a self-serving platform for Narmi's engineering organization.

What you'll do:

- Lead, manage, and grow a team of infrastructure engineers, including hiring and cultivating talent.
- Set technical direction and priorities for the team's roadmap in partnership with engineering leadership.
- Plan, design, implement and iterate on Narmi's AWS infrastructure.
- Maintain and improve our cloud networking architecture.
- Collaborate with the business and other engineering teams to support new customers and integrations.
- Mentor and develop team members, providing regular feedback and supporting their career growth.
- Review code and drive testing practices across the team.
- Participate in Narmi's engineering on-call rotation.

What you'll bring:

- 6+ years of relevant industry experience in Infra/DevOps/SRE roles, including experience leading or managing engineers.
- Demonstrable skill in designing large scale system architectures.
- A good understanding of networking in an AWS environment.
- Security-centric approach.
- Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash, with a solid understanding of Linux.
- Ability to diagnose technical problems, debug code, and automate routine tasks.
- Analytical mindset with a strong sense of ownership.
- A track record of building and developing high-performing technical teams.
- Excellent communication skills in verbal and written English.

Preferred Qualifications:

- BS (or higher, e.g., MS, or PhD) in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.
- Working experience with some of the following: AWS, Terraform, Postgres, Linux.

The expected annual base salary for this role is $210,000-$237,000. Base salary is only part of your total compensation. In addition to base salary, you will receive an equity option grant, and are eligible for performance-based cash and equity bonuses. Compensation included in an offer will be commensurate with the candidate's skills, experience and geographic location. Compensation ranges for candidates located outside of New York City may differ. You will also receive a full benefits package.

## About Narmi

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Narmi provides a digital banking platform that enables community banks and credit unions to compete with mega banks and fintechs through modern account opening, payments, fraud prevention, and back-office tools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $55.6M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Nikhil Lakhanpal and Chris Griffin

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Technology (Fintech) / Digital Banking
- **Target customers**: B2B; specifically community banks and credit unions (SMB to mid-market financial institutions)
- **Mission statement**: "Enable community financial institutions to win against Mega Banks and FinTechs."

## Products & Services
- **Narmi Grow**: Consumer and business digital account opening solution that can decision, fund, and open an account on the core in an average of 2 minutes and 13 seconds.
- **Narmi Banking**: Core platform including instant payments over the FedNow Service.
- **Narmi Guard**: Fraud prevention suite designed to stop fraud without compromising user experience.
- **Narmi Command**: Streamlined digital back-office administrative platform for staff efficiency.
- **Narmi Open**: Open API ecosystem and customizable integrations, allowing financial institutions to control their product roadmap.
- **Narmi AI**: Agentic AI capabilities to power the future of banking.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **Annual Revenue**: Approximately $11.3M (as of most recent fiscal year)
  - **Total Funding**: $55.6M across 6 rounds
- **Notable Investors**: Greycroft (led Series B), Picus Capital, New Enterprise Associates (led Series A)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 14.5% YoY to 126 employees; deployed at financial institutions with hundreds of billions of dollars in deposits; expanding product suite with AI capabilities and FedNow payments.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep integration with core banking systems**: Every product integrates with leading core systems, making adoption seamless for legacy institutions.
- **Speed-to-value**: Account opening in under 2.5 minutes is a clear differentiator in a market where legacy processes take days.
- **Founder-market fit**: Co-founders previously ran a financial institution (CEO and CTO) and later worked at large banks, giving them firsthand understanding of the customer's pain points.
- **Open platform strategy**: Unlike monolithic vendors, Narmi’s API-driven approach lets FIs customize and control their tech stack.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening AI capabilities (Narmi AI) to automate and enhance banking workflows.
- Expanding instant payment adoption via FedNow integration.
- Growing the customer base among community financial institutions while maintaining high product quality.
- Continuing to build out fraud prevention (Narmi Guard) as a critical layer.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: "Work from anywhere... whenever you want" with flexible remote roles available.
- **Home office stipend**: Up to $500 in reimbursements for home office equipment.
- **Student loan repayment**: Narmi matches student loan payments dollar-for-dollar up to $2,500 per year.
- **Standard benefits**: Competitive pay, 401k matching, medical/dental/vision insurance.
- **Unique perks**: Volunteering time off, fitness & extra-curricular credits.
- **Culture**: Monthly all-hands meetings for company-wide transparency; welcome lunches and happy hours to build connection.
- **Engineering leadership**: SVP of Engineering Nathan Gonzalez and other senior leaders drive the technical vision.
- **Open roles** (as of latest data): Applied AI Engineer, Director of Sales (West & East), VP of Finance & Accounting, Customer Success Associate, Director of Product Design, Lead Software Engineer - Payments, Senior Product Operations Associate, Fraud & Risk Solutions Lead.

## Sources
1. [narmi.com - Company Overview](https://www.narmi.com/company)
2. [narmi.com - Careers Page](https://www.narmi.com/careers)
3. [narmi.com - Product Page](https://www.narmi.com/)
4. [LinkedIn - Narmi Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/narmi)
5. [CB Insights - Narmi Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/narmi)

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