Platform Engineer, Kikoff

$237-567k

OTE

+ Offers Equity

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Python

Ruby

Jenkins

Prometheus

RDS

Datadog

Pulumi

DevOps

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Personal finance & credit building platform

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Personal finance & credit building platform

101-200 employees

B2CCredit ScoringPersonal financeFinancial ServicesSaaS

Be an early applicant

$237-567k

OTE

+ Offers Equity

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Python

Ruby

Jenkins

Prometheus

RDS

Datadog

Pulumi

DevOps

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

101-200 employees

B2CCredit ScoringPersonal financeFinancial ServicesSaaS

Company mission

To provide refreshingly fair, effective and simple pathways to meet your financial goals.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering
Production AWS (EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM)
Infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi or Terraform- we use Pulumi/TypeScript)
CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
Containers (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)
Monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, or similar)
Strong coding skills in Ruby, Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar
Track record building platforms that teams actually adopted

Desirable

Fintech or regulated industry experience (SOC 2, PCI-DSS)
Security automation or compliance tooling
0→1 infrastructure building experience
Data and ML infrastructure or MLOps background

What the job involves

You'll be one of our first platform engineers building the foundation for our fintech engineering organization as we scale from startup to enterprise-grade operations
This is not a "keep the lights on" operations role
You'll build internal products - self-service tools and automated workflows that make secure, compliant infrastructure invisible to product teams. Your customers are engineers; your metrics are their velocity and our security posture
Design self-service infrastructure using AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM) and Pulumi/TypeScript
Create automation that eliminates manual work
Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments
Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
Build documentation and runbooks that empower teams to self-serve
Work with product teams to understand friction points
Balance fintech compliance requirements with developer experience
Participate in incident response and postmortems
Optimize system performance, scalability, and cost
Implement security controls that satisfy regulatory requirements
Treat platform as product: gather feedback, measure adoption, drive improvements
Partner with engineers and stakeholders to set technical strategy
Explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical audiences
Specialization Areas:
Security & Compliance: Secure architectures, IAM systems, security automation, SOC 2/PCI-DSS frameworks, audit preparation
Site Reliability: Observability platforms, intelligent alerting, SLOs/error budgets, disaster recovery, performance optimization
Developer Experience: Self-service provisioning, CI/CD optimization, internal platforms, reusable infrastructure patterns

Application process

During interviews, we'll discuss your focus area. All roles are 70% specialty, 30% general platform work

Our take

Having a solid credit history is a fundamental building block for financial health and there is a large market of people looking to build or rebuild their credit scores. Roughly half of all American adults have subprime credit or no credit whatsoever, and it’s safe to say there is a demand for credit products tailored to beginners and builders.

Kikoff is a credit-building platform aimed at Millennials and GenZ. Their signature product helps consumers without a credit history to positively influence several key aspects of their credit score. This includes their payment history, how much they owe, and the length of their account history.

Kikoff's goal is to help customers across their entire financial journeys and create a simple and positive banking relationship: from stabilizing cash flows to accumulating savings, and building towards long-term goals such as a mortgage. The company plans to build out its technology and team, across all function areas, to bring new products to market in the future.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

37% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.66)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jun 2021

$30m

SERIES B

Jul 2020

$10m

SERIES A

Total funding: $42.5m

Company benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage - Kikoff covers the full cost of health insurance!
Stock Options
Generous unlimited vacation policy to help you recharge
Regular team building events to help you get to know the Kikoff team and soo much more!

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Cynthia Chen

(Co-Founder & CEO)

An experienced Chief Revenue/Risk Officer, Cynthia has worked at OnDeck, LendingHome and Figure. Co-founded Figure in 2018, and Kikoff in 2019.

Christophe Chong

(CTO)

Experience as a Software Engineer at Facebook from 2016-2019, and Head of Growth at Lime between 2018-2019. Co-founded Kikoff in 2019.

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