Senior Platform Engineer

EngineeringFull TimeToronto, ON

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About Koho

Koho is a high profile FinTech company backed by some of the leading investors and advisors across Canada and Silicon Valley. More than 10,000 Canadians have signed up to join Koho and we’re just getting started.

We’re building Koho because we think there is a real opportunity to democratize the best financial tools for all Canadians, without profiting from fees, complexity and confusion. 

We’re starting with the Koho Visa* Prepaid Card and mobile app that allows users to manage daily financial needs (direct paycheque load, bill pay, ATM cash withdrawals, etc.), while offering tools such as automated savings goals, real-time updates, transfers, spending insights, categorizations and much more. You can see what people are saying about us here & what we’re working on here.

About the Role

As a Sr. Platform Engineer at Koho, you will be part of a team that will design, architect, implement, create and manage the foundation that other engineering teams at Koho will build on top of. This foundation includes core APIs, frameworks, infrastructure, dev tools, etc.

This is a role that requires you to apply your expertise and years of experience in software engineering, system architecture, security, operations, and technical product development.

Requirements

Relevant Experience

  • 10+ years of industry software engineering and architecture experience
  • 4+ years building distributed software applications & scalable backends
  • A passion for technology
  • A passion for hands-on data-driven architecture
  • A deep understanding of highly available, secure, self-healing, message driven, distributed systems, and scalable backends
  • Expert level proficiency in one or more programming languages
  • A passion for automation and quality assurance
  • A passion for being data-driven

Bonus Skills & Experience

  • Golang
  • Docker
  • Startup experience
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Science
  • Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
  • Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)
  • Event Sourcing
  • Staged Event-Driven Architecture (SEDA)

Benefits

Working at Koho

We can’t stand lip-service values. We invest time and resources into making sure Koho is as good as the people we hire. Just some of the reasons to apply:

  • Solve an important problem with an exceptional team
  • Full health and dental coverage
  • Get equity in a company you believe in
  • Growth minded company, including access to a personal coach
  • "Powder days" to give you the flexibility you need
  • Access to a gym for the long days, and a rooftop patio for the short ones

*The Koho Visa Prepaid card is issued by Peoples Trust Company pursuant to license by Visa Int.