Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Platform, Consumer Apps - Klover

About Attain Attain is a finance AI copilot designed to empower homebuyers as they navigate the complexities of home financing and get mortgage-ready. In today’s world, achieving homeownership has never been more difficult—it’s one of the biggest challenges facing society. More than ever, buying a home requires careful preparation, expert guidance, and solid support. Attain securely connects to users’ financial information—including income, credit, debt, and assets—along with other relevant data sources, to deliver personalized, transparent advice on credit optimization, savings plans, down payment assistance, debt reduction, mortgage options, budgeting, taxes, and more. Additionally, Attain enables homebuyers to collaborate effortlessly with their real estate agent, mortgage broker, or lender directly in the app.

Attain

AI coach helping first-time homebuyers optimize their finances for a mortgage.

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attain.app

2-10 employees

Financial Services

Montreal

2022

Privately Held

445 LinkedIn followers

• Chicago, IL: 4 days in-office; 1 day remote
• You’ll be a great fit for the role if
• You are excited to build and scale backend systems that support financial products and real-time payments
• You thrive in environments where data integrity, security, and performance are critical
• You are excited to build microservices using Rust and Go
• You have a willingness to learn and teach in a collaborative environment
• You’re eager to leverage and develop using AI tools
• You’ve been complimented on how well you participate in an open feedback environment
• Build and evolve microservices that handle high-volume financial and transactional data
• Design and implement APIs that securely connect to third-party payment processors, banks, and fintech partners
• Write thoughtful & quality code that is readable, testable, and easily maintainable
• Develop data-driven services that power account management, transaction history, and financial insights
• Strive for excellent development practices and careful code architecture that is built around rapid releases
• Work cross-functionally with backend, mobile, and product teams to consistently release high-quality, customer-focused financial features
• Adhere to, and improve upon, our agile process through requirement documents, sprint retrospectives, and other regular cadence meetings

Preferred

• 5+ years of experience building backend services in production environments
• Experience in the financial technology, payments, or banking systems industry
• Familiarity with compliance, security, and data privacy standards (e.g., SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR)
• Experience designing transactional and event-driven systems for payments, reconciliation systems, or ledger-like applications
• Familiarity with microservice or Service-oriented Architecture
• Experience using gRPC, protobuf, or GraphQL
• Expert knowledge of SQL and experience designing data models for financial data integrity
• Experience with message queues or event streams (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• We’re excited to hear from you.
• At Attain, we are passionate about finding people to continuously help us grow our organization. We encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t match every detail of the job description. If we don’t see something that immediately fits, we will keep your resume on file for future opportunities.