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.

We are hiring a Distinguished Engineer passionate about marrying data with emerging technologies. You’ll have the opportunity to be at the forefront of building a modern enterprise data platform 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. 

As a Distinguished Engineer, you will establish yourself as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor for data technologies and platforms. You will lead the architecture and development of highly scalable data platforms with thousands of daily users. You will also manage key stakeholder and partner relationships, leveraging expertise to influence technical decisions.

 

Required Qualifications: 

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science,  or related field. Master’s Degree preferred.
  • At least 10 years experience in software engineering.
  • At least 7 years of experience designing and building highly scalable data platforms and solutions.
  • At Least 7 years of experience with Databricks (administration and platform engineering)
  • At Least 10 years of cloud platform experience - AWS preferred
  • At Least 7 years of experience working with Big Data, Enterprise Data
  • Knowledge and experience in modern data platform strategies (Data Mesh, Data Fabric.)
  • Expert knowledge and experience in distributed data/computing tools such as EMR, Kafka, Spark.
  • Experience with metadata management solutions.
  • Experience with implementing and managing data access controls.
  • DevOps experience using AWS, Python, Terraform, Jenkins,  GitHub and Artifactory

 

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!

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