Senior Software Engineer

November 13

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Kard

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API • Fintech • SaaS

Kard is a company that offers the first rewards-as-a-service API aimed at enhancing customer loyalty for cardholders and shoppers. By providing marketers and banks with tools to launch customizable loyalty programs quickly, Kard enables them to engage inactive cardholders and encourage repeat purchases. The company's platform is designed with a focus on security and compliance, ensuring confidence in its products. Kard's solutions help marketers reach new audiences, card issuers to create branded loyalty programs, and consumers to earn rewards effortlessly across numerous locations in the U. S.

51 - 200 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Design and implement scalable backend services in Go, ensuring reliability, security, and maintainability. • Architect and maintain AWS infrastructure across multiple accounts, with increasing Kubernetes adoption, optimizing for performance, cost, resilience, team autonomy, and product innovation. • Develop and enhance our TypeScript and Serverless systems, ensuring seamless integration with backend services. • Improve observability, automation, incident management, and CI/CD, enabling faster iteration cycles and more reliable feature delivery. • Work cross-functionally with engineering, product, data, and design teams to build high-performance distributed systems that align with business goals and user needs. • Lead and participate in technical decision-making, balancing trade-offs between performance, scalability, simplicity, and business impact. • Mentor engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement while championing pragmatic, business-driven problem-solving. • Ensure best practices in security, data protection, and compliance, proactively addressing risks that could impact product stability and customer trust.

🎯 Requirements

• Expertise in AWS, particularly with EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, Cognito, and IAM. • Fluency with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and relational databases like PostgreSQL, optimizing for both performance and business flexibility. • Hands-on DevOps and automation experience with Terraform, CI/CD, and observability tools like Datadog, ensuring a frictionless developer experience and rapid product iteration. • Expertise in Go, with a track record of building scalable, production-grade applications. • Significant experience with Kubernetes, including networking, scaling, and security best practices. • Experience working in and maintaining TypeScript and Serverless environments, with a focus on reliability and extensibility. • Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to align engineering work with business priorities.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible PTO, with a minimum requirement to take one day off a quarter, ten days a year, promoting mental well-being • Observance of 11 Federal Holidays, plus an additional day each for Black Friday and Christmas Eve (US employees only) • Health, Dental and Vision Insurance • 401k with employer match (US employees only) • Coworking space and WFH setup reimbursement • Company Offsites two times per year for planning, team-building, and networking