Job Application for Software Engineering Team Lead at Kunai

Kunai is a fast-growing digital consultancy focused on banking, payments, and fintech powered by a global network that attracts the best and brightest people from all backgrounds and cultures, driven by innovation and experimentation, spread across almost every single continent. Over the past decade, we've shipped over 150 products for clients that include Visa, American Express, Capital One, WEX, Wells Fargo, Ernst & Young, and TOMS Shoes. Our founders built a previous agency (Monsoon) that was acquired by Capital One in 2015.

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? In this role, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who solve real problems and meet real customer needs.

We are seeking Software Engineering Leaders who are passionate about emerging technologies. You’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of modernizing a banking core that powers over $60 billion in annual transaction volume for over 100 million active payment cards for one of the largest credit card issuers in the world.

You’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving a major transformation within our client, a major global financial institution.

Basic Qualifications:
● Bachelor’s Degree
● At least 8 years of experience in software engineering (Internship experience does not apply)
● At least 4 years of experience in Python
● At least 3 years experience with AWS (Lambdas, S3, DynamoDB, SQS)
● At least 4 years of people management experience
● At least 2 years recent experience with observability, monitoring, and telemetry tools (OpenTelemetry, Sentry, Splunk, Grafana)

Preferred Qualifications:
● Master’s Degree
● 8+ years of experience in at least one of the following: Python, JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, SQL, or Go
● A background with hands-on experience in DevOps and/or site reliability engineering a strong plus

What You’ll Do:
● Lead a portfolio of diverse Observability technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices, and full stack systems to create solutions that help meet regulatory needs for the company
● Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community, and from time to time, be asked to code or evaluate code
● Collaborate with digital product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment
● Utilize programming languages like JavaScript, Java, HTML/CSS, TypeScript, SQL, Python, or Go, Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of AWS tools and services

At Kunai, we have built deep relationships with our clients. Our bar is high, and our mission is to always exceed our client’s expectations. If you are fanatical about customer success and driven to work on and solve tough technical challenges, we would love to chat with you!

Software Engineering Team Lead

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