3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design and execute enterprise-grade performance-testing strategies, frameworks, tooling, and success criteria for payment-processing services.
- Identify performance bottlenecks across legacy and modern service layers and drive targeted optimization.
- Instrument and validate services running on Java, Oracle, Tomcat, WebSphere, PostgreSQL, and OpenShift.
- Build and maintain backend services for card-network integration using Java, PostgreSQL, and OpenShift Container Platform.
- Modernize, migrate, and re-platform services from legacy infrastructure to cloud-native environments.
- Develop PCI data-purging pipelines and event-driven services supporting token removal, event consumption, data lifecycle, and compliance requirements.
- Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, technical planning, and communication of performance findings to stakeholders.
- Serve as a flexible senior contributor across engineering workstreams.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, primarily in Java, is required.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases, specifically Oracle and/or PostgreSQL, is required.
- Experience deploying and operating services in containerized environments such as OpenShift or Kubernetes is required.
- Experience with enterprise performance testing strategy, tooling selection, execution, profiling, load testing, and bottleneck resolution is required.
- Experience designing performance test frameworks from scratch and operating with minimal guidance is required.
- Digital payments, card processing, or financial-services technology experience is strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of PCI compliance, secure data handling, event-driven architecture, and OpenShift-based eventing is preferred.
- Experience with PGLogical or PostgreSQL logical replication, GitHub Copilot or Claude, bank or card-network integrations, or segregated development environments is a plus.
- A bachelor’s degree is required, with specified specialized training or progressively responsible technology experience accepted in lieu of missing college years.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills in large, matrixed program environments are required.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation is offered.
- Professional development opportunities are provided.
- Flexible work arrangements are available.
- The role offers a collaborative culture with continuous learning and opportunities for professional growth.
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About Kunai
Kunai is a digital product development and engineering consultancy focused on financial services, building full-stack systems for banks, payment networks, and fintechs. Its teams deliver product development, AI and automation, cloud, and data engineering, partnering from MVP through rollout. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Ramon, California, Kunai was acquired by PwC and operates within the PwC network serving large U.S. banks and global card networks.