by Terrance Ellis | Dec 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is a real senior DevOps / cloud infrastructure seat. Heavy AWS, IaC, CI/CD, observability, security, and you’re expected to lead and mentor, not just “keep the lights on.”
About Cardinal Financial
Nationwide mortgage lender with proprietary LOS tech (Octane). Regulated environment, so security and uptime are not optional.
Schedule
- Remote
- CI/CD + production releases, including occasional off-hours deployments
- Cross-team work with Architecture, Dev, and business stakeholders
What You’ll Do
- Architect AWS infrastructure that’s scalable, secure, cost-aware
- Build and maintain CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) across environments
- Own releases to production and QC, sometimes off-hours
- Monitoring/logging/alerting with AWS tools (CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail, Systems Manager)
- Lead infra projects: capacity planning, DR, security compliance
- Mentor junior engineers and raise DevOps practice maturity
- Troubleshoot across the stack (network to app performance)
- Tighten IAM, security groups, segmentation, compliance for financial services
- Cost optimization: right-sizing, RIs, architectural improvements
- Document everything: runbooks, operational procedures
What You Need
Required
- 8+ years infra/DevOps/cloud, 3+ on AWS
- Terraform and/or CDK (IaC)
- CI/CD ownership (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, similar)
- Containers: Docker + Kubernetes/EKS
- Scripting (Python/Bash) and they also call out Java
- Networking + systems + security fundamentals
- Remote collaboration chops
- Comfortable using AI tools for productivity
Preferred
- AWS certs (SA, DevOps)
- Regulated industry experience
- Deep AWS-native observability (CloudWatch/X-Ray/SSM/AWS Config)
- RDS/DynamoDB/Aurora
- Serverless (Lambda/API Gateway/Step Functions)
- Security tooling (GuardDuty/Security Hub/Inspector)
- Cost tools (Cost Explorer/Trusted Advisor/Compute Optimizer)
Pay range
My straight take
- If your background is true infra/DevOps/SRE with AWS + Terraform + pipelines + incident response, this is a solid fit and the pay band is legit.
- If your experience is more “app developer who has deployed some stuff,” you’ll get exposed fast. This role assumes you can design the platform, not just operate it.
- The “off-hours deployments” line means they’re still doing some controlled releases that may not be fully hands-off yet. Not a red flag, but it’s a signal.
Action move
If you’re applying, I’ll tailor a tight resume summary + bullet rewrites to match their keywords (AWS, Terraform/CDK, GitHub Actions/Jenkins, EKS, IAM, DR, cost optimization, runbooks). Paste your current resume bullets for your last 2 roles and I’ll refactor them into “Cardinal language” without fluff.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Dec 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
If you like turning messy business questions into clean dashboards, automated alerts, and “here’s the answer” data, this role is built for you. You’ll partner with stakeholders across the company to streamline reporting, automate manual work, and ship analytics that actually move the mortgage business forward.
About Cardinal Financial
Cardinal Financial is a nationwide direct mortgage lender focused on delivering a better borrower and partner experience through strong service and proprietary technology, including the Octane platform.
Schedule
What You’ll Do
- Build automated alerts, system updates, and dynamic dashboards that support strategic decision-making
- Use programming to automate manual processes across the organization
- Partner with stakeholders to define data terms and ensure reporting matches business expectations
- Help develop data pipelines and transformations that power dashboards, reporting, and analytics
- Own your work end-to-end: prioritization, stakeholder specs, status updates, coding, and documentation
What You Need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics, or related field
- 1–3 years of experience with Python, SQL, and/or JavaScript/TypeScript
- 1–3 years of experience with at least one BI tool (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, etc.)
- Strong communication skills with stakeholders at all levels (requests, discrepancies, user support)
- Comfort working with data warehouse concepts and table structures
- Ability to write and maintain code across multiple languages
- Enjoys ownership, learning, and thoughtful debate in a high-impact team
Nice to Have
- Financial services or mortgage lending experience
- Experience with webhooks and APIs
- Palantir Foundry experience
- Experience evaluating/optimizing large language models and writing high-impact prompts for NLP work
Benefits
- Full benefits starting the first day of the month after your start date (medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and more)
- Generous PTO plus major holidays
- 401(k) with 50% match beginning the first of the month after 30 days
- Expected base salary range: $83,000–$116,000 (based on experience and qualifications)
This is a legit “build and automate” BI role, not a spreadsheet babysitter. If that’s your lane, swing.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Dec 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Build and modernize high-impact mortgage tech products, turning complex requirements into fast, scalable, user-friendly front-end experiences. This is a senior seat with real ownership: lead architecture decisions, refactor legacy JavaScript, and mentor engineers while pushing React/Next.js forward.
About Cardinal Financial
Cardinal Financial is a nationwide direct mortgage lender focused on improving the borrower and partner experience through strong service and proprietary technology, including their Octane platform.
Schedule
What You’ll Do
- Lead development of complex front-end applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS with a focus on performance, scalability, and UX
- Architect solutions using a custom front-end framework (Vue-like) and drive the transition to React, Next.js, and modern state management
- Use AI-powered dev tools to accelerate development, debugging, and optimization workflows
- Modernize and refactor legacy JavaScript code for maintainability and improved functionality
- Design reusable component libraries, responsive layouts, and web components
- Build complex UIs that integrate with backend APIs and authentication protocols
- Write and review clean, efficient code and comprehensive unit tests
- Lead code reviews and set quality standards and best practices
- Manage deployments and support CI/CD pipelines for reliable delivery
- Partner with full-stack engineers, analysts, and designers in an agile environment
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies to strengthen the stack
- Own your roadmap: prioritization, stakeholder communication, and documentation
- Mentor junior engineers and lead technical projects end-to-end
What You Need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field)
- 5+ years of software development experience (large-scale web apps preferred)
- Mastery of JavaScript (ES6+), plus strong HTML5/CSS3 and responsive design skills
- Extensive experience with a modern front-end framework (React/Angular/Vue), plus familiarity with Next.js or similar SSR meta-frameworks
- Experience contributing to design systems (component libraries, style guides)
- Strong REST API and async request handling knowledge
- Git proficiency and cross-browser compatibility expertise
- Understanding of server-side rendering and implementation approaches
- Experience with build tools (Webpack, Vite)
- Experience mentoring developers and leading refactors of large legacy codebases
- CI/CD and deployment process experience
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable making architectural calls and guiding a team through best practices
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with high ownership
Benefits
- Full benefits (medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and more) beginning the first day of the month after your start date
- Generous PTO plus major holidays
- 401(k) with 50% match beginning the first of the month after 30 days
- Growth opportunities and an empowered culture
- Expected base salary range: $130,000–$155,000 (based on experience, skills, and qualifications)
If you’re the type who can lead a migration, calm down a legacy codebase, and still ship clean UI at speed, this one’s worth a hard look.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Dec 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Build the backbone that keeps a fast-moving behavioral health platform stable, secure, and shipping constantly. You’ll own core services, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and automation so product teams can deploy safely and often.
About Charlie Health
Charlie Health delivers personalized, virtual behavioral health treatment rooted in connection, expanding access to meaningful care for people with complex needs.
Schedule
- Remote (United States)
- Core collaboration hours: 12 PM to 5 PM ET
- Product teams ship 20+ production deploys/week (trunk-based development)
- Scrumban-style 2-week sprints
- Candidates within a 75-minute commute of the NYC office: onsite 4 days/week
What You’ll Do
- Develop and maintain core services and libraries in Python, TypeScript, and Golang
- Architect, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terragrunt and OpenTofu (Terraform)
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to streamline deployments
- Automate provisioning, monitoring, and scaling using Bash, Golang, and Python
- Implement security best practices across infrastructure and pipelines (IAM, networking, HIPAA controls)
- Partner with product engineering to deliver new platform capabilities
- Improve reliability, scalability, observability, security, and cost-efficiency across services
- Break down initiatives into clear milestones and deliver incremental value
- Mentor engineers and improve architecture and processes across the org
- Improve developer velocity by abstracting common patterns and acting on engineering feedback
- Participate in on-call rotations to maintain availability and resolve incidents
What You Need
- 3+ years in Platform, DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering
- 2+ years writing production-level backend code
- 2+ years hands-on AWS (ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, Aurora, SQS, EventBridge, EC2, ECR, etc.)
- Proficiency in Python, Golang, or TypeScript
- Strong proficiency with Terraform/OpenTofu (IaC)
- CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins
- Strong understanding of Docker and orchestration tools
- Observability experience (Datadog, Honeycomb, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Sumo Logic, OpsGenie)
- Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems
- On-call experience resolving critical infrastructure and application issues
- Strong communication and problem-solving in a fast-paced startup environment
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits for full-time, exempt employees
- Target base compensation: $150,000–$215,000 per year
- Total comp may include stock options and other Charlie Health-sponsored benefits
If you like owning the “make it boring in production” mission, this is your lane.
Build the platform that keeps life-saving care online, fast, and secure.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Dec 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Build the data backbone behind life changing stroke recovery tech. You’ll turn messy, high impact healthcare data into clean, governed, insight ready assets that help clinicians and business teams move faster and smarter.
About Kandu Inc.
In April 2025, Kandu Health and Neurolutions merged to form Kandu Inc., combining FDA cleared brain computer interface technology with personalized telehealth to support stroke recovery. Their IpsiHand® device helps chronic stroke survivors regain upper extremity function at home, backed by expert clinicians and evidence based care. Kandu extends recovery beyond the hospital through illness navigation, education, care coordination, and advocacy.
Schedule
Full time, remote role. You’ll partner cross functionally across clinical, commercial, operations, and leadership, with expectations for strong documentation, reliable delivery, and clear communication across teams and time zones.
What You’ll Do
⦁ Build and maintain data pipelines across core systems like EHR, CRM, ERP, claims/finance, and manufacturing/ops
⦁ Design ELT workflows to ingest, normalize, and transform data using tools like Fivetran/Airbyte, Airflow/Prefect, dbt, and Python
⦁ Architect and implement a centralized enterprise data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift) including schemas, semantic layers, and dimensional models
⦁ Ensure data quality, lineage, governance, reliability, observability, version control, and documentation across pipelines and models
⦁ Develop dashboards, operational monitors, alerts, and recurring analytics to give real time visibility into performance across the business
⦁ Automate reporting workflows and orchestration, including scheduling, monitoring, and error handling
⦁ Enable self service analytics with intuitive, consistent, well documented data models
⦁ Support early predictive and prescriptive modeling (prior auth likelihood, adherence patterns, denial risk, forecasting) in partnership with the VP of ESI
⦁ Handle PHI responsibly and ensure HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC2 aligned data practices across storage and transformation
What You Need
⦁ 5–8 years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a full stack data role spanning pipelines, modeling, and dashboards
⦁ Strong SQL and Python skills, with confidence building production grade pipelines
⦁ Hands on experience with modern data stack tools (Airflow/Prefect, dbt, Fivetran/Airbyte, Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift)
⦁ Experience designing star schemas, dimensional models, and or semantic layers
⦁ Dashboarding experience in tools like Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Mode, Sigma, or similar
⦁ Comfort working with messy SaaS data, integrating via APIs, webhooks, and vendor interfaces
⦁ Clear communication skills and the ability to translate technical work into business impact
⦁ Ability to thrive in ambiguity and build v1 systems with limited infrastructure
Benefits
⦁ Competitive compensation ($150,000–$175,000 annually) plus stock options
⦁ Medical, dental, and vision insurance
⦁ 401(k) with company contribution
⦁ Unlimited PTO and holidays
⦁ Life insurance, short term disability, and long term disability
Hiring for this role now. If you like building from scratch and want your work to matter, move on this.
Bring the systems mindset, bring the curiosity, and help build an insight driven enterprise that improves lives.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
by Terrance Ellis | Dec 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
If you love building data systems that actually hold up in production, this role is built for you. AbsenceSoft is looking for a Data Engineer to power AI and ML workloads with reliable, secure, scalable pipelines, from raw data all the way to embeddings and retrieval.
About AbsenceSoft
AbsenceSoft builds secure, intuitive leave and accommodations technology that helps employers handle complex, human moments at work with more clarity and care. The team is remote-first, values-driven, and focused on delivering outcomes that matter.
Schedule
- Remote (United States)
- Full time
- Salary range: $152,000–$190,000 USD
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain data pipelines for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
- Develop and optimize data models, ETL processes, and batch/streaming infrastructure
- Partner with data scientists to support training, evaluation, and deployment of ML and LLM models
- Implement scalable architectures for embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines
- Enable real-time and offline analytics workflows
- Ensure data quality, lineage, observability, and governance across data products
- Deploy secure, cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) for high-volume AI workloads
- Contribute to feature store and MLOps platform design for continuous learning and model updates
- Support Responsible AI workflows, including compliant data usage and access controls
- Evaluate new tools and tech to improve performance, reliability, and agility
What You Need
- 5+ years building large-scale, production-grade data pipelines as a Data Engineer
- Strong SQL and Python skills
- Experience with distributed processing (Spark, Flink, Beam)
- Hands-on with ELT/ETL + orchestration (Airflow, dbt, Prefect, Dagster)
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks)
- Experience supporting ML/AI workloads in partnership with model teams
- Knowledge of vector databases and embedding workflows (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate)
- Understanding of privacy, access controls, and compliance in regulated environments
- Comfort with modern DevOps for data infra (Docker, Terraform, CI/CD)
- Able to work autonomously in a fast-moving, collaborative environment
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits
- Performance-based bonus program
- Equity opportunities
- Flexible time off and paid holidays
- Remote-first flexibility and a results-driven culture
- Learning resources, leadership programs, and growth opportunities
- Inclusive culture focused on shared wins and shared success
If you’re the person who can make AI teams faster by making the data foundation rock solid, this is a strong fit.
Happy Hunting,
~Two Chicks…
