Senior Backend Software Engineer, Kikoff
$200-260k
+ Equity
More information about location
Personal finance and credit building platform
Open for applications
Personal finance and credit building platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$200-260k
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide refreshingly fair, effective, and simple pathways to meet your financial goals.
Role
Who you are
- B.A. / B.S. / M.S. or strong self-taught fundamentals in computer science
- 4+ years of industry experience, with demonstrated breadth and depth of product impact
- Ability to analyze data and distill information for business purposes
- Effectiveness as demonstrated by problem-solving skills in areas outside your expertise
- Desire to form strong professional bonds with startup-forward coworkers
What the job involves
- Looking for an experienced backend software engineer
- You will be responsible for core product contributions, rapid-prototyping, and production-release concerns
- As a software engineer of a fast-growing fintech startup you are going to move the needle, but it will require a split personality:
- Your Dr. Jekyll leans towards correctness, tight testing, and advancing the mental constructs of the organization with a series of logical hypotheses and tests
- Your Hyde-side is one that focuses on brutal prioritization in a sea of possibilities, good-enough testing for a code base that must be deliberately but also organically grown, and the understanding that systems must serve people, not the other way around
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. Many adults in the US have scores below 680 and some cannot be scored due to a lack of credit history. 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
(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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