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Kunai builds full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. Together, we are changing the world’s relationship with financial services. At Kunai, we help our clients modernize, capitalize on emerging trends, and evolve their business for the coming decades by remaining tech-agnostic and human-centered.
Job Title: Senior Java Software Engineer – Financial Services
Location: NYC, New York (Onsite)
About the Role:
We’re seeking a highly skilled Senior Java Software Engineer to join our dynamic team working on complex financial service systems that serve millions of customers worldwide. You will play a critical role across enterprise architecture, risk technology, and investment banking (IB)-facing applications. This role demands strong expertise in core Java technologies, scalable distributed systems, and modern cloud platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable financial applications using Core Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
- Build and integrate RESTful APIs and microservices within distributed systems architecture.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams practicing Agile methodologies to deliver high-quality software continuously using CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools.
- Implement messaging solutions using Kafka or other enterprise messaging frameworks to handle real-time data streams.
- Optimize application performance, ensure system scalability and high availability in a demanding production environment.
- Drive best practices around automated testing (TDD/BDD), including JUnit and Cucumber test frameworks.
- Contribute to architectural decisions focusing on robustness and risk mitigation in enterprise financial systems.
- Leverage cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP) to deploy and manage resilient cloud-native applications.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Strong expertise in Core Java (Java 8+) with solid understanding of JVM internals.
- Extensive experience with Spring Boot, Hibernate ORM.
- Proven background designing and developing REST APIs and microservices architectures.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar event streaming platforms.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including deployment and monitoring.
- Adept in Agile software delivery and CI/CD automation.
- Strong knowledge of TDD/BDD with JUnit and Cucumber frameworks.
- Experience with performance tuning and ensuring high availability in large scale systems.
- Background in financial services technology, risk systems, or investment banking applications is highly advantageous.
- Full-working proficiency in English (written and verbal)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-native architectures.
Our success over the past 20 years is rooted in our exceptional team, which thrives in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.
We are proud to offer our employees a range of benefits, including competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and flexible work arrangements, all designed to help them thrive. As we continue to expand, we remain committed to cultivating an environment where people feel valued, have a voice, and are given the tools to grow—both personally and professionally—while pushing the boundaries of innovation in the fintech industry.
Minimum Degree Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree, in lieu of a degree, demonstrating in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college is required
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Kunai builds full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. Together, we are changing the world’s relationship with financial services. At Kunai, we help our clients modernize, capitalize on emerging trends, and evolve their business for the coming decades by remaining tech-agnostic and human-centered.
We are leveraging cutting-edge technology to deliver superior data-driven solutions. We value innovation, collaboration, and excellence, and we are seeking a skilled Data Engineer to join our dynamic team to optimize and innovate our data infrastructure within the Snowflake ecosystem.
Position Summary:
As a Data Engineer, you will design, implement, and manage scalable, high-performance data solutions tailored to the needs of the financial services environment. You will be instrumental in migrating traditional relational data domains to a modern cloud data platform using Snowflake, ensuring data integrity, optimizing workflows, and integrating data governance and science tools. Your expertise will enable us to maintain a robust, cost-effective, and secure data environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and manage scalable data storage and processing solutions within the Snowflake environment optimized for financial data workloads.
- Lead the migration of existing data domains and flows from relational data stores to Snowflake, ensuring seamless transitions with minimal disruption.
- Identify, analyze, and optimize new and existing data workflows to improve performance and reliability.
- Implement and enforce data integrity best practices to ensure accuracy, consistency, and security of data assets.
- Collaborate with data governance and data science teams to integrate relevant tools and frameworks within the Snowflake ecosystem following organizational standards.
- Support development and maintenance of data models and ETL/ELT processes to guarantee high-quality data ingestion into the cloud data store.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to design and implement effective data workflows, transformations, and pipelines aligned with business goals.
- Assist in the ongoing maintenance and optimization of Snowflake environments focusing on performance tuning and cost reduction strategies.
- Contribute to the development of proof of concepts, detailed documentation, and best practice guides governing data management and Snowflake usage.
- Participate actively in code reviews, providing constructive feedback aimed at improving code quality and team collaboration.
- Design and develop data ingestion pipelines using Talend or Informatica, applying industry best practices for security and efficiency.
- Develop and maintain efficient SQL queries and Python scripts to analyze large datasets and automate end-to-end data workflows on scheduled intervals.
- Design and implement data distribution layers leveraging Snowflake REST APIs to support various downstream applications and analytics platforms.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Proven experience (3+ years preferred) as a Data Engineer or similar role in Financial Services or a similarly regulated, data-intensive industry.
- Strong expertise with Snowflake architecture, features, and best practices in cloud data warehousing and processing.
- Hands-on experience migrating data workflows from traditional relational databases to Snowflake or other cloud-native platforms.
- Proficiency in building and optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines using tools such as Talend and/or Informatica.
- Solid SQL and Python programming skills for data ingestion, transformation, and automation workflows.
- Familiarity with data governance principles and integration of governance/data science tools within data ecosystems.
- Experience designing REST API integrations, specifically Snowflake REST API, to enable data distribution layers.
- Knowledge of data modeling, relational and dimensional data design concepts, and data warehousing methodologies.
- Ability to work onsite in Manhattan, NY, and collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional team environment.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to document processes and best practices clearly.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with PowerBI or similar data analytics platforms
- Experience with financial datasets, compliance standards, and security protocols.
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and orchestration tools for data pipelines.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms beyond Snowflake, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Our success over the past 20 years is rooted in our exceptional team, which thrives in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.
We are proud to offer our employees a range of benefits, including competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and flexible work arrangements, all designed to help them thrive. As we continue to expand, we remain committed to cultivating an environment where people feel valued, have a voice, and are given the tools to grow—both personally and professionally—while pushing the boundaries of innovation in the fintech industry.
Minimum Degree Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree, in lieu of a degree, demonstrating in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college is required
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Senior Software Engineer - Python
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Kunai builds full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. Together, we are changing the world’s relationship with financial services. At Kunai, we help our clients modernize, capitalize on emerging trends, and evolve their business for the coming decades by remaining tech-agnostic and human-centered.
Location: NYC, New York - Onsite Work Required
We are looking for a Python/Data Software Engineer with a focus on building and maintaining complex data pipelines and tooling within our global financial services environment. This role primarily supports data engineering, reconciliation processes, and enterprise productivity tooling on platforms serving millions of customers worldwide.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain, and optimize ETL pipelines primarily using Python and Informatica.
- Design and implement data workflows on Snowflake or comparable cloud data platforms.
- Build reliable data reconciliation tools and enterprise automation scripts to support business-critical operations.
- Write efficient, maintainable, and well-tested Python code following object-oriented principles.
- Develop and optimize complex SQL queries for data extraction, manipulation, and analysis.
- Automate the management of data workflows using scripting languages such as Shell, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver scalable solutions that improve data integrity and operational efficiency.
- Contribute to best practices around code quality, testing, and deployment.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Strong proficiency in Object-Oriented Python development.
- Experience designing and executing ETL processes, preferably with Informatica.
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery.
- Solid SQL skills for complex query writing and performance optimization.
- Proficiency in scripting languages like Shell, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Understanding of data modeling, data pipeline optimization, and distributed data processing concepts.
- Familiarity with software development best practices, source control, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience working in Agile environments.
- Full working proficiency with English (Written and Verbal)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Prior experience in financial services, especially with data reconciliation or risk-related data workflows
Our success over the past 20 years is rooted in our exceptional team, which thrives in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.
We are proud to offer our employees a range of benefits, including competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and flexible work arrangements, all designed to help them thrive. As we continue to expand, we remain committed to cultivating an environment where people feel valued, have a voice, and are given the tools to grow—both personally and professionally—while pushing the boundaries of innovation in the fintech industry.
Minimum Degree Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree, in lieu of a degree, demonstrating in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college is required
Ready to apply?
Apply to Kunai