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Staff Backend Engineer, Platform, Consumer Apps - Klover

RustGomicroservicesbackendfinancial technologypaymentsgRPCprotobufGraphQLSQLKafkaRabbitMQAWSGCPAzurecompliancesecuritydata privacymicroservice architectureevent-driven systems

Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Senior

Years experience

5-10

Location

Chicago, United States

Full job description

Klover is seeking a senior backend engineer to design, build, and scale microservices supporting financial products and real-time payments. The role involves building high-volume transactional systems, designing secure APIs for payment processors and banks, writing maintainable code, and developing data-driven services for account management and financial insights. Candidates should have 5+ years of backend production experience, preferably in fintech, payments, or banking, with knowledge of compliance and data privacy standards (SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR). Experience with microservice architecture, gRPC, protobuf, GraphQL, SQL, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) is required. The position is full-time with a hybrid schedule based in Chicago, IL.

What you'll do

  • 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

Requirements

  • 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

Tech stack

RustGogRPCprotobufGraphQLSQLKafkaRabbitMQAWSGCPAzure

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