Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Golang/AWS

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, Capital One, WEX, Wells Fargo, Ernst & Young, and TOMS Shoes.
• 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 in Golang.
• This is part of a 2+ year investment in the platform.
• The role is remote, with core working hours aligning to EST.
• The salary range for this position is $165,000 - $180,000 per annum.

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 Golang.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Glue, Spark, or Big Query is required.
• You should have production-ready experience in a serverless environment, preferably in an enterprise setting.
• 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 DynamoDB.
• Experience with CICD pipelines in AWS is required.

Benefits:

• Kunai offers a remote work environment with flexible hours.
• The company provides a competitive salary range of $165,000 - $180,000 per annum.
• Employees have the opportunity to work on challenging technical projects that exceed client expectations.
• Kunai fosters a culture of innovation and experimentation, attracting diverse talent from various backgrounds and cultures.