Staff Backend Developer, KOHO Financial
$170-210k
Plus Equity
Financial management application
Job no longer available
Financial management application
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$170-210k
Plus Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To allow Canadians to be able to travel more, retire sooner, and live more balanced lives
Role
Who you are
- You have solid Golang skills, or an equivalent experience in a related language and are ready/eager to learn Go
- You have experience at building reliable/scalable distributed systems, have track records of making, owning complex systems in the past
- You demonstrate technical leadership qualities during your previous/current role, a plus if you have been in a leadership role before
- You are keenly user-focused, a plus if you have worked with financial products before
- You care deeply about quality, but are able to find the balance between quality vs velocity
- You love working on hard problems, owning the technical solutions from ideation to completion, you’re not afraid to get your hands dirty, ready to jump into coding and make the magic happen
- You work well in a distributed team/remote environment, being mostly independent but will be hands-on when the situation requires
What the job involves
- Reporting to Software Development Manager
- Builds flagships credit products for more than 1 million of our users
- Builds a credit platform work that functions our credit products
- Scales & makes our systems more efficient and reliable
- Supports and makes sure that our users has the best possible experience
- Be the technical leader the team needs, you enable other engineers to be more effective, whether via direct relationships, or via the quality of your work
- Be project lead for complex medium to large size projects, ensure project delivery meets expectations for our users and the business
- Guiding our technical roadmap towards engineering excellence, making our systems more reliable, more efficient & scaling to the increasing needs of our users
- Doing POCs, gathering systems inputs, building dashboard, making data-driven decisions to better our domains, systems & the business
- Fostering cross-team collaboration, being a part of building a healthy engineering culture
Our take
In the wake of the gradual shift from physical to virtual interactions, the global internet-only banking industry has also seen tremendous growth in recent years. KOHO Financial is part of this growing trend; they are a financial solution and payment platform built to help Canadians with managing their finances.
Apart from typical savings and budgeting common with money-management apps, KOHO customers enjoy a suite of financial services that help to build better credit, spending habits and insurance. As part of this, its product appeals especially to the majority of the paycheck-to-paycheck demographic.
KOHO's impressive growth and suite of products also appeal to investors who have backed it with one of the highest levels of funding in the Canadian fintech sector. However, this hasn't completely insulated it from the turbulence in the global economy, which led to KOHO restructuring in early 2023. With 2024 debt funding now secured, it is now focused on growth, aiming to further extend its lead in the Canadian market and achieve a Schedule 1 bank licence.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2024
$28.8m
LATE VC
Dec 2023
$61.8m
SERIES D
Total funding: $304.2m
Company benefits
- Stock options
- Semi-annual merit increases
- Holiday bonus
- Work from anywhere
- Generous PTO
- Health & Lifestyle spending accounts
- $1000 remote office setup budget
- $5000 referral bonus
- Free KOHO Premium account
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- In-house coaching program
- $2000 annual training allowance
- Approachable leadership
- Bias towards action
Company HQ
Liberty Village, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Daniel Eberhard
(CEO)Previously a co-founder and Vice President at Kineticor Renewables before their acquisition.
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