Platform Engineer
KikoffSan Francisco, California, United States
Posted October 4, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Kikoff is a financial technology company founded in 2019 with a mission to simplify credit building for individuals. The company offers a range of services including its proprietary Credit Account, Rent & Bill Reporting, and an AI-powered Debt Negotiation tool. Kikoff's team of data scientists, engineers, and financial experts leverages artificial intelligence to create accessible and efficient solutions for consumers seeking to improve their credit scores and achieve financial wellness. With over 2 million customers and unicorn status, Kikoff is committed to empowering people to build the life they deserve.
Job Description
Kikoff is seeking a Platform Engineer to build the foundation for their fintech engineering organization, focusing on internal products and automating infrastructure. This role is not a 'keep the lights on' function, but rather a build-out of internal tools and workflows to improve security, compliance, and developer experience. The engineer will collaborate with product teams and contribute to improving platform as a product.
Requirements
- 5+ years infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering experience
- Production AWS (EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM) experience
- Infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi or Terraform) experience
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) experience
- Containerization (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes) experience
- Monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch) experience
- Strong coding skills in Ruby, Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar
Benefits
- US salary range
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
