Senior Backend Developer, KOHO Financial
Platform
CA$140-160k
+ Equity
Financial management application
Open for applications
Financial management application
201-500 employees
Open for applications
CA$140-160k
+ 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 hold a bachelor’s in computer science, engineering, or a related field, with AWS certifications being a plus
- You embrace AI-powered development workflows and have hands-on experience with tools like Claude Code or other AI coding assistants to accelerate development while ensuring code quality and maintainability
- You have experience working with and developing Distributed Systems as well as an Event driven Architecture
- You are proficient with programming languages like Go, Python and SQL
- You are solution oriented and thrive on complex technical issues
- You love working on hard problems, and owning the technical solutions from ideation to completion
- You have excellent communication skills in order to dissect complex technical issues in a clear and concise manner
- You excel at collaborating in a distributed team environment, proactively engaging with teammates while being self-directed in your work
Desirable
- Experience working with and supporting authentication/authorization systems (OAuth, JWT, RBAC, etc.)
- Experience with tools such as Datadog, Temporal, GitHub Actions, RabbitMQ
What the job involves
- Ready to grow with our Platform Team? We're looking for an Senior Backend Developer to join us remotely from Canada
- Reporting to a Senior Software Development Manager, you'll be part of a multi-faceted pod responsible for building our internal development framework, maintaining code quality standards, and owning our internal authentication/authorization system. You'll also support feature teams as they advance their distributed systems architecture
- Own and maintain our authentication and authorization systems, ensuring secure and scalable access control across all services in our distributed architecture
- Develop components for our internal library used by all backend developers to build our service oriented architecture
- Develop POCs, gather systems inputs, build dashboards, make data-driven decisions to better our domains, systems & the business
- Lead medium to large-sized projects, ensuring successful delivery that aligns with internal stakeholder expectations
- Foster cross-team collaboration, being a part of building a healthy engineering culture
- Once fully integrated into the team you’ll be expected to join an on-call rotation with shifts every few weeks supporting our cross-functional services
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.
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Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2024
$29.1m
LATE VC
Dec 2023
$62.5m
SERIES D
Total funding: $306.6m
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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