Senior Backend Engineer (Platform, Consumer Apps - Klover)

Join Klover, a rapidly growing fintech company, as a Senior Backend Engineer. In this role, you will design, build, and scale the systems that underpin Klover's core products and platform. You will work on high-impact, production-grade systems that prioritize reliability, security, and performance. You will collaborate closely with colleagues across backend, frontend, data science, and product teams to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions for a growing user base. You will have the opportunity to work with modern technologies and architectures while helping define and evolve the next generation of inclusive, data-powered financial products.

• Design, build, and scale the systems that underpin Klover’s core products and platform, focusing on reliability, security, and performance.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues across backend, frontend, data science, and product teams to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions for a rapidly growing user base.
• Build and evolve microservices that handle high-volume financial and transactional data, and design and implement APIs that securely connect to third-party payment processors, banks, and fintech partners.
• You thrive in environments where data integrity, security, and performance are critical
• You’re eager to leverage and develop using AI tools
• You’ve been complimented on how well you participate in an open feedback environment
• You are excited to build microservices using Rust and Go
• You are excited to build and scale backend systems that support financial products and real-time payments
• You have a willingness to learn and teach in a collaborative environment
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience with message queues or event streams (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• 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
• We encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t match every detail of the job description