Description:

Kunai is a fast-growing digital consultancy focused on banking, payments, and fintech.
The company has shipped over 150 products for clients including Visa, American Express, and Wells Fargo.
The role involves building a payments platform to enable repeatability, stability, and quality for multiple development teams across a partner bank.
You will work on a SCRUM team that owns products and services end to end, from intent refinement to development to production support.
Responsibilities include building new features and supporting tooling and ML efforts for the transformation within the card technology organization.
The position involves migrating from a microservices-based architecture in Java to a bespoke data-centric solution.
This is part of a 2+ year investment in the platform.
The role is remote, with core working hours aligning to EST.

Requirements:

You must have 6+ years of experience working in a production environment in any language, with at least 3+ years writing backend services in Java.
Hands-on experience with Spark or other Big Data technologies is required.
You should have production-ready experience in a serverless environment.
A minimum of 3+ years of hands-on experience with any NoSQL database is necessary.
You must have at least 1+ year of hands-on experience with Cassandra, as you will be primarily working in this database.
Experience with orchestrating pipelines in either AWS, GCP, or Azure is required.
Nice to haves include knowledge of Golang or Python, experience in automated testing, end-to-end testing, or integration testing, familiarity with DynamoDB, AWS Glue, and a DevOps mindset.

The salary range for this position is $155,000 - $175,000 per annum, with a slightly higher range available for residents of NYC.
Kunai emphasizes building deep relationships with clients and has a high bar for exceeding client expectations.
The company values individuals who are fanatical about customer success and driven to solve tough technical challenges.