1 month ago
USA (city not specified)Senior
Base Salary
$150k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own backend systems and infrastructure from design through deployment and scaling.
- Build performant and reliable APIs and services for financial products.
- Design and implement scalable AWS architectures using Node.js and TypeScript.
- Balance speed, reliability, scalability, and maintainability in technical decisions.
- Ship production code frequently while maintaining code quality and system reliability.
- Establish technical patterns and best practices for the engineering team.
- Collaborate with product engineers and other stakeholders.
- Use AI-assisted development tools and workflows to increase engineering output while maintaining quality.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent depth of experience.
- Significant backend-focused software engineering experience.
- Experience building and scaling production systems with Node.js and AWS.
- Proficiency with TypeScript is preferred.
- Track record of delivering reliable, performant systems at scale.
- Strong ownership, independent execution, and comfort making technical decisions in ambiguous environments.
- Willingness to work in a high-intensity role with an ambitious workload and tight deadlines.
Benefits
- Direct impact on millions of people's access to credit and financial opportunity.
- High ownership with minimal bureaucracy.
- Rapid learning, execution, and career growth in an early-stage startup.
- The role is fast-paced, with evolving priorities and processes; the posting notes that the workload takes many engineers more than 50 hours per week.
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About Kovo
Kovo builds a consumer credit-builder platform that lets users establish credit through installment loans with instant approval, no credit checks, 0% APR, and 1% rewards. The company serves people with thin credit files or excluded from traditional credit via a mobile/web service. Founded in 2019 in the United States, Kovo is privately held and seed-backed by Inspired Capital and Homebrew.