Kikoff

Senior Software Engineer - Product Platform

Kikoff · San Francisco

Posted about 3 months ago

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This role has been open
81 days
Kikoff's roles stay open a median of 69 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
9% of Kikoff's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Kikoff
high
37 stale, 0 reposted of 54 open
Hiring momentum
73 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-24

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About this role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Product Platform team at Kikoff, you will be responsible for building and evolving the foundational systems that support all products. This includes owning critical platform services such as identity and KYC infrastructure, ensuring they are scalable and reliable. Your work will enable product teams to operate more efficiently and enhance customer service.

Our read on this posting2.0out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • 5+ years of experience building and scaling production systems
  • Comfortable leveraging AI tools to work smarter and ship better products faster without sacrificing quality
  • A builder’s mindset — thrives in ambiguity, takes initiative, and enjoys owning systems end-to-end
  • Ability to communicate technical complexity clearly and appropriately depending on the audience
  • Experience building platform services or shared infrastructure used by multiple teams
  • Excellent debugging instincts and the ability to piece together how unusual data states occurred

Nice to have

  • Experience with Ruby on Rails
  • Knowledge of identity verification and KYC processes

What you get

  • Base Range $244,000 — $292,000 USD

Worth weighing

  • No specific mention of remote work options or flexibility
  • The role involves working in a fast-paced startup environment which may come with ambiguity
  • The company encourages applicants who may not meet every qualification, indicating a focus on potential over a strict checklist

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Listed by Kikoff on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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