Branch Overview
Branch is a leading AI-powered lending fintech with 50M+ downloads across India and Africa. We use alternative data and machine learning to expand financial access for millions of people traditionally excluded from the formal financial system. Founded by the former CEO of Kiva.org and backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Visa, and the IFC, Branch combines mission-driven impact with world-class technology and scale.
In India, Branch operates as a regulated digital lending institution and Middle Layer NBFC, building trusted and accessible financial products for millions of customers across the country. Our 250+ member India team is growing rapidly and works across technology, data science, risk, product, and operations to solve high-impact problems at scale.
Certified as a Great Place to Work in 2025, Branch offers the opportunity to build meaningful careers while shaping the future of inclusive fintech in one of the world’s fastest-growing digital economies.
Job Overview:
Branch is seeking a seasoned DevOps Engineer to own parts of our cloud infrastructure and DevOps operations. In this role, you will lead by example, and design, deploy, and optimize our AWS-based infrastructure, ensuring seamless orchestration of workloads across Kubernetes and serverless environments like AWS Lambda.
You will play a pivotal role in automating processes, enhancing system reliability, and driving the adoption of DevOps best practices. Collaborating closely with our Engineering, Product, and Data teams, you’ll contribute to scaling our infrastructure and supporting our rapid growth. This position offers a unique opportunity to refine your technical expertise in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the architecture, design, and scaling of various parts of our cloud infrastructure on AWS, ensuring security, resilience, and cost efficiency.
- Optimize Kubernetes clusters, including advanced scheduling, networking, and security enhancements to support mission-critical workloads.
- Architect and improve CI/CD pipelines, incorporating automation, canary deployments, and rollback strategies for seamless releases.
- Design and implement monitoring, logging, and observability solutions to ensure proactive issue detection and system performance tuning at scale.
- Establish and enforce security best practices, including IAM governance, secret management, and compliance frameworks.
- Be the go-to expert for multiple infrastructure components, providing technical leadership and driving improvements across interconnected systems.
- Lead large-scale projects spanning multiple quarters, defining roadmaps, tracking progress, and ensuring timely execution with minimal supervision.
- Drive collaboration with cross-functional teams, including ML, Data, and Product, to align infrastructure solutions with business and engineering goals.
- Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and best practices.
- Set and refine DevOps standards, driving automation, scalability, and system reliability across the organization.
Qualifications
- A minimum of 7 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or a similar role, with expertise in designing and managing large-scale cloud infrastructure.
- Experience working on software product development, with proficiency in a mainstream stack
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, EKS, and VPC networking.
- Advanced proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure as code, including best practices for scaling and managing cloud resources
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes, including cluster provisioning, networking, security hardening, and performance optimization.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go, with experience integrating APIs and optimizing workflows.
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like CircleCI, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or ArgoCD.
- Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability tools such as DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch.
- Deep understanding of cloud security, IAM governance, role-based access control (RBAC), and compliance frameworks like SOC2 or ISO 27001.
- Proven ability to lead and mentor junior engineers while fostering a collaborative and high-performance team culture.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across cultures, functions, and time zones in a globally distributed team.
Why Join Us
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Fast-paced, collaborative, and high-autonomy work culture
- Hybrid work setup designed for flexibility and work-life balance
- Fully paid group medical insurance and personal accident insurance
- Generous paid time off, plus company-declared public holidays
- Fully paid parental leave for fathers and non-birthing parents (12 weeks), in addition to 26 weeks of statutory maternity leave
- Monthly WFH stipend, along with a one-time home office setup budget
- $500 annual professional development budget
- Quarterly social meet-ups and sponsored monthly team lunches
Branch International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The company does not and will not discriminate in employment on any basis prohibited by applicable law. We’re looking for more than just qualifications -- so if you’re unsure that you meet the criteria, please do not hesitate to apply!
