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Senior Data Engineer

Posted 11 Days Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
120K-205K
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
120K-205K
Senior level
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will develop back end services for a credit tech platform using Python and PySpark, focusing on data-driven decision systems in financial services.
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Kunai builds full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. Together, we are changing the world’s relationship with financial services. At Kunai, we help our clients modernize, capitalize on emerging trends, and evolve their business for the coming decades by remaining tech-agnostic and human-centered.

Kunai is launching a set of new development teams to work on one of the most advanced data driven decision systems in the banking industry. We will be creating real time customer experiences and back end services that will determine the credit worthiness of applicants and decision customers on new credit card products

We are looking for experienced Software Engineers with expertise in Python and PySpark, to work on back end service development for a massive credit card tech decisioning platform. You'll work on the customer acquisition experiences and back end services that support the credit decisions that determine what products and lines can be assigned to new applicants to card products. These teams will have full-ownership to plan their work, break down user stories, build features, deploy to production and support production services. These are always-on systems that need to be highly resilient and stable with 99.99% uptime requirements.

Requirements:

  • 4+ years of software development experience
  • Experience in Python Development and PySpark
  • 2+ years of experience working in large data Environments
  • Experience with Snowflake or DataBricks 
  • Expertise with high availability & distributed systems
  • Experience with data engineering principles and working experience with data-driven decisioning platforms
  • Experience working with a variety of AWS services 
  • Experience with serverless architectures and Lambdas

Nice to have:

  • Previous experience in either Scala or Java
  • Knowledge in event-driven architectures leveraging tools like Kafka
  • Financial Services or FinTech experience

 

Salary Range: $120,000 - $205,000 annually
This range reflects the base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for Senior Software Engineers. Actual compensation may vary depending on relevant factors including experience, skills, location, and client billing. 

Our success over the past 20 years is rooted in our exceptional team, which thrives in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.
We are proud to offer our employees a range of benefits, including competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and flexible work arrangements, all designed to help them thrive. As we continue to expand, we remain committed to cultivating an environment where people feel valued, have a voice, and are given the tools to grow—both personally and professionally—while pushing the boundaries of innovation in the fintech industry.

Top Skills

AWS
Databricks
Kafka
Lambda
Pyspark
Python
Serverless Architectures
Snowflake

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