About Ivy

Ivy is building the world’s first programmable bank. We know the bank of the future is going to be fully regulated and stablecoin-native. We believe that the crypto folks are too afraid of full bank charters, while the bank folks know too little about crypto to pull it off. We believe there’s a trillion-dollar opportunity to launch regulated banks built on the blockchain.

Today, we bank the world’s leading crypto platforms (Kraken). Tomorrow, our platform will power global correspondent banking. And who's going to bank all these AI agents? We are certain that if we get this right, Ivy is going to be Europe’s first $1T company.

We are a team of ex-founders, early employees at unicorns, and top-tier talent from fintech and banking, and we are backed by the world’s best fintech investors:

• Valar - Peter Thiel and the Valar team have been thinking about global money since PayPal times.

• Creandum - Previously invested in fintechs like Klarna, Trade Republic, Pleo, and iZettle

• 10+ unicorn founders

Your Mission

You are DevOps #3. You join a Lead DevOps who has laid the groundwork - now you help scale it. You'll shape the infrastructure, automation, and reliability standards that let the entire engineering team ship faster and more safely.

You are owning big projects and driving them autonomously to make the developer experience and overall bank infrastructure a breeze. You'll build and operate the platform that everything runs on. AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability, incident response - end to end.

You'll work across engineering, security, and product to turn infrastructure into a competitive advantage. You design for failure, automate everything you can, and raise the bar for what production-grade means at a bank run by agents.

Team Mission

Ivy is building The Dark Bank - a bank run by agents. Our infrastructure team (DevOps, Security, Data) builds the foundation for that. We are a lean team of smart, high agency and high ambition individuals. You will work closely with the CTO, Lead DevOps and Head of Product. You are expected to move autonomously and you are by default trusted with all decisions you take.

Your First Six Months At Ivy

Ramp up and ship a big project in your first weeks on the job:

Month 1-2: You ramp up and understand the current infrastructure deeply - how deployments work, where the rough edges are, what's automated and what isn't. You pick up your first big project as an IC and start shipping. You're pairing with the Lead DevOps but operating independently from week one.

Month 3-4: You finalise your first big project as an IC, e.g. PR environment deployments, multi-region infrastructure and plan the next project on the roadmap.

Month 5-6: You shape the infrastructure roadmap alongside the Lead DevOps. You scope, plan, and drive projects as the project lead. You're the person the engineering team trusts to keep the platform fast, reliable, and safe. You extend your scope and ownership in the stack.

Who Will Thrive In This Role

We believe that throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. In the past, we have seen people succeed at Ivy with the following traits ranked by importance:

1. Safe Hands: You can run on your own and finish the job no matter what comes in your way.

2. Communication: You are proactively going to the whole company and make sure you get the context without getting prompted to do so.

3. Curiosity: You need to be super curious about all aspects of the business and dig deep to understand every use case to apply data effectively.

4. System Thinking: You can design and build systems from scratch.

5. Smartness: You are generally just very smart and can pick up new things quickly.

This job is for you, if

• You do anything to get the job done, e.g. write backend code, learn new tooling

• You're excited about designing infrastructure for a bank that runs on agents, not legacy systems

• You care as much about developer experience as uptime or company efficiency

• You'd rather own the whole problem than have a narrow lane

• You do not see issues as “Developer’s problems”, but as your problem too

This job is not for you, if

• You think "DevOps" means maintaining Jenkins and writing Helm charts

• You are a SysAdmin by heart who does not step outside of infrastructure

• You need a well-defined scope handed to you on day one

• You need a large team around you to be effective

• You're not comfortable working under banking-grade regulatory scrutiny

Hard Requirements

• Experience: 4+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or similar roles.

• Cloud Fluency: Advanced hands-on experience with AWS (IAM, EC2, EKS, VPC, CloudWatch, etc.).

• Kubernetes Mastery: Ability to design, debug, and operate production-grade Kubernetes environments.

• IaC Expertise: Strong experience with Terraform (modules, workspaces, complex architectures).

• Automation Mindset: Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages for automation and tooling.

• CI/CD: Experience designing and maintaining GitHub Actions - or comparable CI/CD systems.

• Observability: Familiarity with metrics, logging, distributed tracing, and incident response best practices.

• Communication: You make complex infra concepts intuitive for developers and stakeholders.

Hiring Process

We have designed our process to make it as short and straightforward as possible:

1. Screening Call - 15 minutes: Initial touchpoint to get familiar with the process and role expectations.

2. Meet the CTO - 20 minutes: Get to know and see if there is a match in expectations.

3. Meet the DevOps Lead - 60 minutes: Live coding challenge (pair programming) to assess your technical depth.

4. References: We talk with people you have worked with in the past.

5. Onsite Interview Day - 3h: You come to the office for a case study (1h) and to meet the key people from the team you will work with (2h)

6. Offer

Between each step, we send followups within 48h of the last step. We cover all travel costs for the on-site day. Our goal is to move from application to offer within 14 days, with feedback within 3 days of your final interview.

What we offer

• Join a Dream Team: We focus on building a team of exceptional people who grow fast, take on big challenges, and inspire each other to deliver at the highest level.

• No Bullshit: Output over input, bias for action - we move fast and follow through, customer value over internal policies. We believe in big outcomes, not titles or hierarchies.

• Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. Every permanent employee participates in our equity program.

• Perks & Benefits: Relocation support, Visa Support, the latest Apple gear (MacBook + AirPods), lunch benefit, Gym benefit, a beautiful office in the heart of the city, 4x on-/offsites per year, weekly team dinner, and an annual development budget.