Senior Backend Engineer (Platform, Consumer Apps - Klover)
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- As part of this team, you’ll help design, build, and scale the systems that underpin Klover’s core products and platform
- You’ll work on high-impact, production-grade systems that prioritize reliability, security, and performance, and that integrate with a broad ecosystem of internal and external services
- The work you do will directly shape how users interact with Klover’s products, access their money, and experience transparent, low-fee financial services
- Klover engineers collaborate closely with colleagues across backend, frontend, data science, and product teams to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions for a rapidly growing user base
- You’ll have the opportunity to work with modern technologies and architectures while helping define and evolve the next generation of inclusive, data-powered financial products—building systems and interfaces that emphasize reliability, privacy, and performance at scale
- Build and evolve microservices that handle high-volume financial and transactional data
- Design and implement APIs that securely connect to third-party payment processors, banks, and fintech partners
- Write thoughtful & quality code that is readable, testable, and easily maintainable
- Develop data-driven services that power account management, transaction history, and financial insights
- Strive for excellent development practices and careful code architecture that is built around rapid releases
- Work cross-functionally with backend, mobile, and product teams to consistently release high-quality, customer-focused financial features
- Adhere to, and improve upon, our agile process through requirement documents, sprint retrospectives, and other regular cadence meetings
- You have a willingness to learn and teach in a collaborative environment
- You thrive in environments where data integrity, security, and performance are critical
- You’re eager to leverage and develop using AI tools
- You are excited to build microservices using Rust and Go
- You are excited to build and scale backend systems that support financial products and real-time payments
- You’ve been complimented on how well you participate in an open feedback environment
- We encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t match every detail of the job description
- Experience in the financial technology, payments, or banking systems industry
- 5+ years of experience building backend services in production environments
- Familiarity with compliance, security, and data privacy standards (e.g., SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR)
- Familiarity with microservice or Service-oriented Architecture
- Experience using gRPC, protobuf, or GraphQL
- Experience designing transactional and event-driven systems for payments, reconciliation systems, or ledger-like applications
- Expert knowledge of SQL and experience designing data models for financial data integrity
- Experience with message queues or event streams (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure