Lead Software Engineer - Golang

Kunai is a fast-growing digital consultancy focused on banking, payments, and fintech powered by a global network that attracts the best and brightest people from all backgrounds and cultures, driven by innovation and experimentation, spread across almost every single continent. Over the past decade, we've shipped over 150 products for clients that include Visa, American Express, Capital One, WEX, Wells Fargo, Ernst & Young, and TOMS Shoes. Our founders built a previous agency (Monsoon) that was acquired by Capital One in 2015.

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 back end services that will determine the credit worthiness of applicants and decision customers on new credit card products

We are looking for experienced Software Engineers with expertise in Golang, to work on back end service development for a massive credit card tech decisioning platform. You'll build out the customer acquisition experiences and back end services that support the credit decision mircroservices that determine what products and lines can be assigned to new applicants to card products. 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:

• 6 years of software development experience
• 2 years of experience working with Golang including working with concepts like multi-threading, concurrency and go-routines
• Experience leading and mentoring teams of engineers
• Expertise with microservice architecture and distributed systems
• Ability to work with real-time, super high resiliency systems
• Experience working with a variety of AWS services
• Experience with serverless architectures and Lambdas
• Experience with event-driven architecture with Kafka or similar
  
  

Nice to have:

• Experience with AuroraDB
• Expertise in resiliency patterns
• Knowledge of DevOps concepts
• Prior experience with data-driven decisioning platforms
• Financial Services or FinTech experience
  
  

At Kunai, we have built deep relationships with our clients. Our bar is high, and our mission is to always exceed our client’s expectations. If you are fanatical about customer success and driven to work on and solve tough technical challenges, we would love to chat with you!