Software Engineer, Kikoff
Recent College Graduate
$150k
+ Stock Options
Personal finance & credit building platform
Open for applications
Personal finance & credit building platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$150k
+ Stock Options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide refreshingly fair, effective and simple pathways to meet your financial goals.
Role
Who you are
- Strong internships and general open-source experience are necessary, but familiarity with our particular stack is preferred
What the job involves
- Calling all new grad and junior software engineers who are looking for fast personal and career growth in consumer fintech
- We balance best practices from our experience in post-IPO companies with the familiar intuition that comes from pre-IPO zero-to-one work
- Our mission is to create fair, effective, and simple financial pathways to help 100M Americans reach their financial goals. Investors include Lightspeed, Coatue and GGV
- Founders are serial entrepreneurs who co-founded and served as C-suite executives at 3 FinTech unicorns
- Our backend is written in Ruby on Rails on AWS, using lots of vanilla infrastructure. Our frontend and mobile apps are written in ReactJS on Vercel and Flutter
- This is a consumer fintech startup, and you will be working with serial entrepreneurs who have built strong consumer brands and innovative products
- We are backed by some of Silicon Valley’s top VCs. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships
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.
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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 values
- Extreme ownership
- Clear communication
- A strong sense of craftsmanship
- The desire to create lasting work and work relationships
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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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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