Lead Software Engineer

  • Category: Software Developer Jobs
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois
  • Job Type: Full Time / Part Time
  • Salary: Estimated: $ 23K to 27K
  • Published on: 2025/09/19

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.

We help our clients modernize, capitalize on emerging trends, and evolve their business for the coming decades by remaining tech-agnostic and human-centered.

New Development Teams
We are launching a set of new development teams to work on one of the most advanced data-driven decision systems in the banking industry.

Our goal is to create real-time customer experiences and back-end services that will determine the credit worthiness of applicants and decide on new credit card products.

Job Description
We are looking for experienced Software Engineers with expertise in Golang, to work on back-end service development for a massive credit card tech decisioning platform.

You'll build out the customer acquisition experiences and back-end services that support the credit decision microservices that determine what products and lines can be assigned to new applicants for card products.

Responsibilities
Develop back-end services using Golang
Create real-time customer experiences
Support credit decision microservices
Work on high-resiliency systems with ++.++% uptime requirements
Requirements
6+ years of software development experience
2+ years of experience working with Golang
Experience leading and mentoring teams of engineers
Expertise with microservice architecture and distributed systems
Ability to work with real-time, super high resiliency systems
Nice to Have
Experience with AuroraDB
Expertise in resiliency patterns
Knowledge of DevOps concepts
Prior experience with data-driven decisioning platforms
Financial Services or FinTech experience
Culture
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.


Company Name: Kunai

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