Senior Backend Engineer - Grant Underwriting and Payment

What this role involves

Kikoff is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for their Grant Core team to build and scale payment infrastructure, underwriting systems, and collection strategies. The role involves designing distributed systems, optimizing background job processing, and developing data pipelines to support ML models, all while ensuring high reliability and performance.

Skills this posting asks for

• backend frameworks
• sidekiq
• resque
• ach
• rtp
• distributed systems
• database optimization
• caching strategies
• performance tuning
• data pipelines

Requirements

• 5 years of experience
• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

Kikoff: The Fintech Powering Financial Security at ScaleKikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuatio…