Kunai Co. is a team of developers, designers, and product managers building seamless customer experiences that unite digital products with FinTech. Kunai concepts, designs, and develops unique digital products and payment experiences for the world's top companies. Starting in 1999, Kunai helped Cisco Systems prepare for Y2K, and then in 2006, built the world's first touchscreen PC. Later, Kunai designed and developed some of the world's first successful iOS apps. With Capital One’s acquisition in 2015, we focused on fintech and how to build on a massive scale, so a portion of our team rebranded as Kunai and continued to refine our approach to product development. Over 20 years, Kunai shipped over 150 digital products that are trusted by Fortune 500 companies and unicorn startups alike. Kunai's founders, being former bank executives, started the company with the insights of years-long struggles to hire developer talent. As a result, only the top 3% of developers worldwide make it onto a Kunai team. What we do: Technical Staffing: The Kunai Direct Sourcing Platform helps companies to find, vet, interview, and onboard the world’s best developers. Kunai works on a range of technologies and platforms and has deep experience in fintech and leverages industry-leading APIs and practices. Digital product development for fintech: Kunai understands the unique needs of financial services companies. We're a digital product development consultancy focused on fintech. Kunai handles product management, design, development, cloud management, and much more to build your next new idea into a prototype faster. We build long-term relationships with our clients. Our portfolio includes all four major payment networks, four top ten US banks, seven Fortune 500 technology companies, and ten unicorn startups. If you have an idea and need a team that can make it a reality, we should talk.

Job description

Kunai is a fast-growing digital consultancy focused on banking, payments, and fintech powered by a global network that attracts the best and brightest people from all backgrounds and cultures, driven by innovation and experimentation, spread across almost every single continent. Over the past decade, we've shipped over 150 products for clients that include Visa, American Express, Capital One, WEX, Wells Fargo, Ernst & Young, and TOMS Shoes. Our founders built a previous agency (Monsoon) that was acquired by Capital One in 2015.

Kunai is looking for a full-time Scala Engineer to join our team. You will help our engineering team bring new products across the finish line for our fintech clients. You'll work across the tech stack, tackle new skills, and show up ready for anything. Your role will be challenging, fun, and interesting.

You will:

Work on immutable, distributed systems, data streaming, and backend Scala based systems using functional programming
Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of development tools and technologies including Scala and AWS/Cloud Infrastructure
Produce and ensure delivery of quality, readable, and well-tested code and bring your passion for technology to motivate and inspire on a day to day basis.

Requirements:

4+ years of professional application development experience
4+ years of experience developing applications using functional Scala
Experience with ZIO Framework
At least 2 years of experience with AWS including DynamoDB

Nice-to-haves:

Experience with functional programming languages (e.g. Scala, Clojure, Haskell, Common Lisp)
Fintech/banking experience
4+ years of experience using open-source web services
2+ years of experience with performance tuning and monitoring
1+ years of experience with creating and maintaining CICD tooling
1+ years of experience in performance and optimization of scaled server systems
Certified AWS Developer or Architect

At Kunai, we have built deep relationships with our clients. Our bar is high, and our mission is to always exceed our client’s expectations. If you are fanatical about customer success and driven to work on and solve tough technical challenges, we would love to chat with you!

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