Senior Backend Engineer, Platform, Consumer Apps - Klover

About the role

Klover's engineering team supports over one million active users each month, processing and moving over $1.5 billion annually. You'll help design, build, and scale systems that enable real-time access to financial tools, rewards, and services.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve microservices that handle high-volume financial and transactional data
• Design and implement APIs that securely connect to third-party payment processors, banks, and fintech partners
• Write thoughtful & quality code that is readable, testable, and easily maintainable
• Develop data-driven services that power account management, transaction history, and financial insights
• Strive for excellent development practices and careful code architecture that is built around rapid releases
• Work cross-functionally with backend, mobile, and product teams to consistently release high-quality, customer-focused financial features
• Adhere to, and improve upon, our agile process through requirement documents, sprint retrospectives, and other regular cadence meetings

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building backend services in production environments
• Experience in the financial technology, payments, or banking systems industry
• Familiarity with compliance, security, and data privacy standards (e.g., SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR)
• Experience designing transactional and event-driven systems for payments, reconciliation systems, or ledger-like applications
• Familiarity with microservice or Service-oriented Architecture
• Expert knowledge of SQL and experience designing data models for financial data integrity
• Experience with message queues or event streams (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure

Qualifications

• Excited to build and scale backend systems that support financial products and real-time payments
• Thrives in environments where data integrity, security, and performance are critical
• Excited to build microservices using Rust and Go
• Willingness to learn and teach in a collaborative environment
• Eager to leverage and develop using AI tools
• Participates well in an open feedback environment

Skills

• Modern technologies and architectures
• Data-powered financial products
• Reliability, privacy, and performance at scale

Benefits

Attain Office Hybrid Schedule (where applicable): Chicago, IL - 4 days in-office; 1 day remote

Pay

Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications

Schedule

Hybrid schedule with flexibility to work from home