Kikoff: The Fintech Powering Financial Security at Scale
Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.
We're scaling fast. Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.
Why Kikoff:
This is a consumer fintech startup, and you will be working with serial entrepreneurs who have built strong consumer brands and innovative products. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships. Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact.
You'll be one of our first platform engineers building the foundation for our fintech engineering organization as we scale from startup to enterprise-grade operations.
This is not a "keep the lights on" operations role. You'll build internal products - self-service tools and automated workflows that make secure, compliant infrastructure invisible to product teams. Your customers are engineers; your metrics are their velocity and our security posture.
In This Role, You Will
Build & Automate
Design self-service infrastructure using AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM) and Pulumi/TypeScript
Create automation that eliminates manual work
Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments
Enable & Scale
Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
Build documentation and runbooks that empower teams to self-serve
Work with product teams to understand friction points
Improve & Secure
Balance fintech compliance requirements with developer experience
Participate in incident response and postmortems
Optimize system performance, scalability, and cost
Implement security controls that satisfy regulatory requirements
Collaborate
Treat platform as product: gather feedback, measure adoption, drive improvements
Partner with engineers and stakeholders to set technical strategy
Explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical audiences
Qualifications
5+ years infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering
Production AWS (EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM)
Infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi or Terraform- we use Pulumi/TypeScript)
CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
Containers (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes)
Monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, or similar)
Strong coding skills in Ruby, Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar
Track record building platforms that teams actually adopted
Bonus points for:
Fintech or regulated industry experience (SOC 2, PCI-DSS)
Security automation or compliance tooling
0→1 infrastructure building experience
Data and ML infrastructure or MLOps background
Specialization Areas
During interviews, we'll discuss your focus area. All roles are 70% specialty, 30% general platform work.
Security & Compliance: Secure architectures, IAM systems, security automation, SOC 2/PCI-DSS frameworks, audit preparation
Site Reliability: Observability platforms, intelligent alerting, SLOs/error budgets, disaster recovery, performance optimization
Developer Experience: Self-service provisioning, CI/CD optimization, internal platforms, reusable infrastructure patterns
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Kikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
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Kikoff San Francisco, California, USA Office
We’re headquartered in the Financial District of San Francisco where public transit is just a short walk away at Embarcadero Station.
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