[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Kunai

Role Description

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.

You'll join as a Senior Backend Engineer working primarily in Go. You'll partner closely with our Profile Engineer, who owns the core-side implementation in FIS Profile's proprietary scripting language (PSL), while you build the integration layer that sits in front of it. Your focus is the layer underneath: data extraction, modeling, and the access patterns that let other teams' applications consume this data safely.

What you'll do:

• Design and build Go services that transform data surfaced from our core banking system into a consistent model usable by any downstream application.
• Partner with our Profile engineer and data engineers to define clean extraction points from the core.
• Build and maintain the access layer (APIs and/or event streams) that lets other teams integrate with this data without touching the core directly.
• Enforce data integrity, access boundaries, and schema versioning so changes in the core don't ripple out to every consuming application.
• Integrate with existing API endpoints maintained by other teams.
• Help define whether new data products are served via batch, event-driven (e.g. Kafka/CDC), or real-time APIs, depending on freshness requirements.
• Collaborate with data engineers on the same team to make new data products viewable/queryable downstream.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with Go as your primary/preferred language.
• Experience building integration, abstraction, or platform layers that sit between legacy systems of record and modern consuming applications.
• Comfort working with transactional systems and/or payments.
• Experience with event-driven architectures like Kafka and CDC pipelines.
• Prior exposure to legacy core banking systems is a plus.
• Experience provisioning cloud services in AWS or other providers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree, in lieu of a degree, demonstrating in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college is required.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Annual bonus of up to 20%.