Zippy was founded with one mission: to make getting a loan for a manufactured home simple, fast, and fully online. We believe modern manufactured homes are affordable, well-built, eco-friendly, and stylish, but finding a lender who understands this market can be challenging. That’s why Zippy focuses exclusively on manufactured home loans, offering a seamless, digital experience.

Headquartered in Dallas, TX, with an office in Tempe, AZ, Zippy provides home loans and insurance to manufactured home buyers throughout the United States. Our remote-first team is spread across cities like Dallas, Houston, Knoxville, Omaha, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and several other states and cities. Backed by institutional investors, we offer competitive pay, stock options, and excellent benefits. At Zippy, we pride ourselves on our commitment to finance happiness through the power of home. We are dedicated to enhancing consumers' financial outcomes and tackling the affordable housing crisis through cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions.

The Role

• Collaborates with the VP of Engineering and internal stakeholders (i.e. engineers) on defining a DevOps roadmap. Clearly defines value propositions and tradeoffs, and generally operates with a high degree of autonomy.

• Guides engineers and drives adoption on DevOps best practices around observability, monitoring, alerting, SLO/SLI’s, CI/CD, IAC, performance, and security. Comfortability teaching.

• Builds, optimizes, and maintains CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, related vendor integrations, and infrastructure.

• Leads cross-functional initiatives with SRE, security, and development teams, mentoring on DevOps practices.

• Delivers solutions for critical projects such as cloud migration, disaster recovery, and infrastructure scaling.

• Owns technical decisions and drives cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability strategies aligned with Zippy’s vision.

What It Takes To Be Successful

Bringing a self-directed can-do attitude to this role will be critical. As a Staff Devops Engineer you will play a foundational role in enabling our developers and supporting and protecting Zippy. We have a great DevOps foundation laid for our size and are looking for someone who can take it to the next level by applying their extensive experience, collaborative spirit, and willingness to mentor, guide, and teach to their work. We value smart and kind individuals at Zippy who are looking to work with a great team to build great software and support an innovative business trying to make waves in the manufactured housing financing space. Here’s hoping that it’s you!

Requirements

Must Have

• 10+ years of DevOps experience

• 5+ years production experience with non-trivial AWS infrastructures.

• 3+ years production experience with Terraform.

• Expertise in:

  • CI/CD pipelines

  • Infrastructure as code

  • Observability tooling for logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting

  • Infra and network security best practices

  • Disaster recovery

  • Managing DevOps vendor relationships

  • Cloud platform cost optimization.

• Proficient with Zippy’s stack: AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Postgres.

Nice To Have

• Experience with Ruby and related build systems and tooling.

• Experience with Python and related build systems and tooling.

• Microsoft stack experience (small footprint here).

• Experience with monorepos and related tooling.

Please note that we are currently only hiring candidates who reside in the following states: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.

Total Rewards

At Zippy, we're passionate about creating a workplace where people love to work. We put a lot of heart into building and nurturing a company culture that not only supports our team but also inspires them to do their best work.

Our benefits and perks are always evolving, but here’s what we offer right now:

• Competitive Compensation: We offer a competitive salary with the potential for annual bonuses and variable pay, depending on your skills and experience.

• Equity for All: As a part of our commitment to shared success, all employees receive equity in the company, allowing you to share in the growth and a