Kovo - Senior Backend Engineer
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Requirements
• 5+ years or equivalent depth of experience in professional software engineering, with significant backend focus • Experience building and scaling production systems with Node and AWS • Proficient with TypeScript (bonus) • Track record of delivering reliable, performant systems at scale
Responsibilities
• Own backend systems and infrastructure end-to-end, from design through deployment and scaling • Build performant, reliable APIs and services that power our financial products • Design and implement scalable architectures on AWS using Node (TypeScript) • Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, reliability, scalability, and maintainability • Ship production code frequently while maintaining high quality standards • Help establish technical patterns and best practices for the engineering team • Interface effectively with product engineers and other stakeholders • Systems-oriented mindset • Care deeply about performance, reliability, and scalability • Motivated by ownership and accountability for system outcomes • Think critically about architectural decisions and their long-term implications • Thrive in ambiguity and are comfortable making technical decisions with incomplete information • Self-starter who can work independently and drive projects to completion • Focused on shipping high-quality systems fast - however it gets done • Comfortable in a high-intensity role and seeking an ambitious workload • Strong sense of ownership and willingness to deliver on tight deadlines. This takes many of our engineers more than 50 hours a week • Believe software engineering is evolving from writing code to orchestrating AI agents and are excited by this because it force-multiplies your output and impact • Embrace AI generation of code and workflow improvements while maintaining high quality • Hate AI slop and care about code quality and system reliability
Benefits
• $150K – $250K • 0.02% – 0.055% • Offers benefits • Accelerate economic opportunity. • You'll be expected to aggressively leverage AI-assisted development tools to dramatically accelerate your output and maximize impact, all while maintaining strong code quality and system reliability. • Kovo is expanding access to financial tools for people historically excluded from the traditional credit system. We believe everyone deserves the opportunity for economic independence, and we’re building products that help people establish financial identity and unlock opportunity. • building products that help people establish financial identity and unlock opportunity • Over the past three years, Kovo has grown revenue 20x while maintaining exceptional capital efficiency. We rank above the 99th percentile in revenue-per-employee benchmarks, reflecting the leverage of a small, high-performing team. • grown revenue 20x • rank above the 99th percentile in revenue-per-employee benchmarks • The team combines the ambition of a venture-scale company with the discipline of a profitable business. We reached positive free cash flow early in our lifecycle, allowing us to grow with less dilution and focus on building for the long term. • reached positive free cash flow early in our lifecycle • Kovo is backed by Inspired Capital and Homebrew, along with founders and leaders from Plaid, Column, Ramp, Affirm, Cash App, NerdWallet, Alloy, MoonPay, Uber, Etsy, LendingClub, and more. We’re looking for exceptional people to help us scale the company another 20x and beyond. • help us scale the company another 20x and beyond
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