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# Senior Backend Engineer at Kikoff

Compensation

$244,000 – $292,000/yr

**Location**
: San Francisco, California

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Jul 8, 2026

## Description

Kikoff is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for its Grant Core team to build and scale critical financial infrastructure powering underwriting decisions, payment processing, collections, and data pipelines. The role focuses on distributed backend services, multi-rail payment systems (ACH, RTP, card networks), background processing, system architecture, and collaboration with product and data science teams in a fast-growing fintech environment.

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