Senior Python Engineer

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.

A new item in Kunai’s list of continuing efforts to revolutionize a payments platform is this initiative, which will be instrumental in enabling repeatability, stability and quality for new payments integrations across a partner bank. In this role, you’ll work on a SCRUM team that will own products and services end to end, from intent refinement to development to production support. You will also build new features within a virtual card that will interact with digital wallets. 

Basic Requirements: 

• 6+ yrs working in a production environment in any language, with 3+ yrs writing backend services in Python
• production-ready experience in a serverless environment, e.g. Lambdas, CDK, CloudFormation
• 3+ yrs hands-on with any NoSQL database  
• well-rounded experience with CICD pipelines, such as Jenkins

Nice to haves: 

• Behave or Robot frameworks, BDD
• experience in automated testing, end to end testing, or integration testing
• DynamoDB
• Devops mindset 

This role is remote but core working hours align to EST. The salary range for this position is $155,000 - $175,000 per annum. A slightly higher range is available to residents of NYC. 

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!