Senior Backend Engineer

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September 2

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Kovo

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Fintech

Kovo is a company that offers credit-building services designed to help individuals improve their credit scores. With no credit check required, Kovo provides customers with the opportunity to make timely payments which are reported to all four major credit bureaus: TransUnion, Equifax, Experian, and Innovis. This service allows users to potentially enhance their creditworthiness by tracking their FICO scores and earning cash rewards for their credit-building activities. Additionally, Kovo offers identity monitoring to protect customers against data breaches and identity theft. Kovo positions itself as a public benefit corporation, focusing on providing value and improving financial opportunities for its customers.

2 - 10 employees

💳 Fintech

📋 Description

• Join us as a senior backend engineering hire! If you have experience building performant and stable systems at scale, we'd love to chat. We're looking for someone who can continue meaningfully contributing to our codebase as our business scales. Our backend stack is Node (Typescript) on AWS. • A little bit of everything! We're a small company, and you'll be expected to pick up many different things. You'll be an early backend hire, so you'll have input in long-term architectural and technical design decisions. You'll help establish the technical foundation for the entire company. • Directly impact millions of underserved individuals’ ability to access credit • Work with minimal bureaucracy, significant ownership, and have broad impact • We don't micromanage and will set you up to do your best work

🎯 Requirements

• Energized by building software for a business focused on financial empowerment for millions of underserved individuals • Comfortable in a high-intensity role and seeking an ambitious workload (not a 40-50 hour workweek) • Thrive in a remote work environment • Prior experience (5+ years) in a professional software engineering role • Motivated to use AI, automation, and data tools in your day-to-day work to push the boundaries of what a single individual can do • Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, handles shifting priorities fluidly, and interfaces effectively between backend and frontend • Worked with Node and AWS in a production setting • Proficient with Typescript (bonus)

🏖️ Benefits

• $150K – $200K • 0.05% – 0.1% • Offers benefits