Kikoff's credit building app is the the fastest way to build credit safely, with plans from $5/month. Backed by Lightspeed.
About the role
Kikoff's infrastructure team builds the systems that enable engineering teams to move quickly without sacrificing reliability, security, or cost discipline. The team owns five connected areas: Observability, Developer Productivity, Compute Infrastructure, Networking and Storage, and Data Infrastructure.
What they're looking for
- 7+ years of infrastructure, platform, or software engineering experience, or an equivalent record of Staff-level technical impact
- Sustained ownership of a consequential production system. You have operated what you built, handled incidents and unfamiliar failure modes, and improved the system afterward
- Strong coding skills in TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, or a similar language. You can build production software, not only configure tools
- Production experience with AWS, infrastructure as code, containers, CI/CD, observability, and the security boundaries around them
- Experienced generalist judgment. You have depth in at least one infrastructure domain and can learn quickly across adjacent ones
- A track record of building platform capabilities that engineers adopted because they solved real problems and were easier to use than one-off alternatives
More about this role
Kikoff: The Fintech Powering Financial Security at Scale
Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.
We're scaling fast. Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.
This is a consumer fintech startup, and you will be working with serial entrepreneurs who have built strong consumer brands and innovative products. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships. Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact.
Kikoff's infrastructure team builds the systems that enable engineering teams to move quickly without sacrificing reliability, security, or cost discipline. The team owns five connected areas: Observability, Developer Productivity, Compute Infrastructure, Networking and Storage, and Data Infrastructure.
As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will own...
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