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Kikoff: The Fintech Powering Financial Security at Scale
Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.
We're scaling fast. Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.
Why Kikoff:
This is a consumer fintech startup, and you will be working with serial entrepreneurs who have built strong consumer brands and innovative products. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships. Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact.
We’re looking for a Senior Mobile Engineer to help shape the future of Kikoff’s main credit building app. This product is central to our mission of helping millions of Americans build stronger credit.
This role has three main areas of focus:
- Grow the app. Improve the journey from download to active, paying member, including the app store, onboarding, identity verification, and the first credit action.
- Own payments and monetization. Build subscription, payment, and billing experiences that are fast, reliable, and easy to trust.
- Improve the mobile platform. Evolve the architecture, tooling, and release process for a Flutter app used by millions, helping a growing team ship faster without sacrificing quality.
You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, growth marketers, data scientists, and engineers. Success is not just about shipping features. It is about improving acquisition, retention, and revenue in measurable ways.
What You’ll Be DoingGrowth and acquisition
- Own and optimize the mobile funnel from store → signup → onboarding/IDV → first credit action; run experiments and measure outcomes.
- Build acquisition plumbing: deep links, attribution, push/in-app messaging, and analytics instrumentation.
Payments and monetization
- Own subscription + billing UX (plans, upgrades, payment methods, autopay, history).
- Build resilient payment flows (Stripe/Tabapay): retries, declines, recovery, and edge-case handling with fintech-grade security.
Mobile platform
- Evolve Flutter architecture, modularity, and performance/observability for multi-team scale.
- Improve CI/CD, releases, codegen, testing, and the design system/component library to speed experimentation.
- At least 5 years of mobile development experience, with a record of building and scaling production apps on iOS or Android.
- Growth impact: You have owned onboarding, activation, or monetization funnels for a consumer app and can point to metrics you improved.
- Mobile architecture: You understand state management, patterns such as MVVM, MVI, and Clean Architecture, and the realities of maintaining a large codebase.
- Production ownership: You have shipped consumer apps at scale, handled crashes and edge cases, and supported features across many releases.
- Platform expertise: You have a solid foundation in iOS with Swift, UIKit, or SwiftUI, or Android with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
- Data fluency: You are comfortable with analytics tools, funnel analysis, and experiment results, and you use evidence to make decisions.
- Testing mindset: Unit, integration, and UI tests are a normal part of how you build.
- API integration: You have experience with REST APIs, asynchronous operations, error states, and reliable network layers.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Kikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
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Skills Required
- At least 5 years of mobile development experience
- Experience building and scaling production apps on iOS or Android
- Experience owning onboarding, activation, or monetization funnels for a consumer app
- Ability to demonstrate measurable growth impact and improved metrics
- Knowledge of mobile architecture, state management, MVVM, MVI, and Clean Architecture
- Experience shipping consumer apps at scale and supporting features across multiple releases
- iOS expertise with Swift, UIKit, or SwiftUI, or Android expertise with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
- Comfort with analytics tools, funnel analysis, and experiment results
- Experience with unit, integration, and UI testing
- Experience integrating REST APIs, asynchronous operations, error states, and reliable network layers
Kikoff Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kikoff and has not been reviewed or approved by Kikoff.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is presented as comprehensive, with medical, dental, and vision included and the full premium cost covered for employees in recent postings. Employer materials and listings consistently cite health insurance as a core benefit.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described as 20 days of accrued PTO plus company‑paid holidays. This provides a clear baseline of paid leave beyond standard holidays.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Everyday perks include commuter benefits, catered office meals, and a fitness benefit policy. These additions contribute to daily convenience and lifestyle support.
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What We Do
Kikoff is a personal finance platform that offers the simplest credit-building solution out there: $0 fees, 0% interest, and no credit pull. Your credit score is the foundation of your financial health – yet most people don’t have the credit score they deserve. That’s why Kikoff built the most accessible and affordable credit-building solution – it’s also the fastest growing and the top-rated credit building mobile app. Kikoff works whether you’re new to credit or looking for an extra boost. Building credit is just the start; Kikoff is building a personal finance platform designed to help consumers achieve financial wellness. Driven by the co-founders’ and team’s personal experiences, Kikoff’s mission is to provide refreshingly fair, effective, and simple pathways to meet your financial goals. Kikoff is a Series B company and has raised over $42 million in total funding. Investors include Portage Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, GGV, Coatue, Core Innovation Capital, and basketball star Stephen Curry. Kikoff was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Why Work With Us
We are building an organization that maximizes growth and learning; we are invested in helping you grow and achieve what you want in your career. Our principles include a bias towards action, work in public, first principles thinking, intellectual honesty and extreme ownership.
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