Kunai builds full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. Together, we are changing the world’s relationship with financial services. At Kunai, we help our clients modernize, capitalize on emerging trends, and evolve their business for the coming decades by remaining tech-agnostic and human-centered.
Kunai is launching a set of new development teams to work on one of the most advanced data driven decision systems in the banking industry. We will be creating real time customer experiences and services that will determine the credit worthiness of applicants and decision customers on new credit card products at a partner bank.
We are looking for experienced Software Engineers with expertise in Golang and React.js, to add new features for a card tech decisioning platform. You'll build out the customer acquisition experiences and back end services that support the decisioning mircroservices along with UIs for internal purposes. These teams will have full-ownership to plan their work, break down user stories, build features, deploy to production and support production services. These are always-on systems that need to be highly resilient and stable with 99.99% uptime requirements.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of total engineering experience
- 2+ years working with Golang as a primary language
- Expertise with microservices architecture and distributed systems
- 1+ years working with React in a production environment
- Experience with real-time, high resiliency systems
- Experience working with a variety of AWS services, including Lambdas
Nice to have:
- Previous experience in either Python or Java
- Experience with AuroraDB
- hands-on work with IaC
- Prior experience serverless architecture
- Financial Services experience, for a startup or large corportation
Salary Range: $120,000 - $205,000 annually
This range reflects the base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for Specialist Consultants. Actual compensation may vary depending on relevant factors including experience, skills, location, and client billing.
Our success over the past 20 years is rooted in our exceptional team, which thrives in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.
We are proud to offer our employees a range of benefits, including competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and flexible work arrangements, all designed to help them thrive. As we continue to expand, we remain committed to cultivating an environment where people feel valued, have a voice, and are given the tools to grow—both personally and professionally—while pushing the boundaries of innovation in the fintech industry.
Our success over the past 20 years is rooted in our exceptional team, which thrives in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.
We are proud to offer our employees a range of benefits, including competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and flexible work arrangements, all designed to help them thrive. As we continue to expand, we remain committed to cultivating an environment where people feel valued, have a voice, and are given the tools to grow—both personally and professionally—while pushing the boundaries of innovation in the fintech industry.
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