Support Engineer at Alinea (W21)
$120K - $200K
Automated investing for the next generation 💸
New York, NY, US
Full-time
Will sponsor
Any (new grads ok)
About Alinea

Alinea is an investing app for GenZs. We’re a Y Combinator backed start-up and have raised $5.5M from top investors including Goodwater Capital, F7 Ventures, and GFR.

We are looking to build out a team of passionate and driven individuals who want to make an impact. Come join us!

About the role

Support Engineer

Location: New York, NY (in-person)
Company: Alinea Invest

Alinea is building the investing platform for the next generation.

  • Post-Series A
  • 2.5M+ downloads

We’re hiring a technical Support Engineer to own production debugging, surface systemic issues, and raise product quality across mobile, backend, payments, and brokerage infrastructure.


What You’ll Do

  • Investigate complex production issues across iOS, Android, backend services, and third-party integrations
  • Reproduce bugs and isolate root causes
  • Query databases (SQL) and analyze logs
  • Debug Stripe and payment-related issues
  • Identify patterns across tickets that point to systemic product problems
  • Partner directly with engineers to resolve issues quickly
  • Improve QA processes and release validation
  • Build internal debugging tools or scripts

You will play a critical role in product reliability, retention, and revenue protection.


What We’re Looking For

  • 2–5+ years in technical support, QA, solutions engineering, or backend engineering
  • Strong debugging skills across APIs and production systems
  • Comfortable writing SQL
  • Experience investigating live production issues
  • High ownership and strong root-cause thinking
  • Comfortable in a fast-moving startup environment

Strong plus: fintech, payments (Stripe), mobile debugging, monitoring tools (Datadog/Sentry).

Technology
  • iOS Swift
  • Next.js + Typescript 4 + Node.js(Express) + Firebase + Socket.io + Redux
  • MongoDB + AWS(EB, EC2, CloudWatch, CodeDeploy)
  • Swift 5 + Programmatic UI + MVVM-C Architecture

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