Attain
Fintech & PaymentsDirect Greenhouse career site

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Platform, Consumer Apps - Klover

Location
Chicago, IL · Hybrid
Job type
Full-time
Level
Lead / Staff
Experience
5+ years
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • backend microservices
  • Rust
  • Go
  • SQL data modeling

Also useful

  • gRPC
  • protobuf
  • GraphQL
  • Kafka
  • AWS
  • PCI DSS

Attain Office Hybrid Schedule (where applicable)

  • Chicago, IL: 4 days in-office; 1 day remote

You'll be a great fit for the role if

  • You are excited to build and scale backend systems that support financial products and real-time payments
  • You thrive in environments where data integrity, security, and performance are critical
  • You are excited to build microservices using Rust and Go
  • You have a willingness to learn and teach in a collaborative environment
  • You're eager to leverage and develop using AI tools
  • You've been complimented on how well you participate in an open feedback environment

What your day to day will look like

  • 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

Preferred Qualifications

  • 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
  • Experience using gRPC, protobuf, or GraphQL
  • 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

We're excited to hear from you.

  • At Attain, we are passionate about finding people to continuously help us grow our organization.
  • We encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn't match every detail of the job description.
  • If we don't see something that immediately fits, we will keep your resume on file for future opportunities.

About Attain

Klover's engineering team powers one of the fastest-growing fintech platforms in the U.S., supporting over one million active users each month. Our systems process and move more than $1.5 billion annually, enabling real-time access to financial tools, rewards, and services that help people improve their day-to-day lives.

As part of this team, you'll help design, build, and scale the systems that underpin Klover's core products and platform. You'll work on high-impact, production-grade systems that prioritize reliability, security, and performance, and that integrate with a broad ecosystem of internal and external services. The work you do will directly shape how users interact with Klover's products, access their money, and experience transparent, low-fee financial services.

Klover engineers collaborate closely with colleagues across backend, frontend, data science, and product teams to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions for a rapidly growing user base. You'll have the opportunity to work with modern technologies and architectures while helping define and evolve the next generation of inclusive, data-powered financial products-building systems and interfaces that emphasize reliability, privacy, and performance at scale.

Read the original posting

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