Senior Product Engineer
Join an early-stage startup. Accelerate economic opportunity.
Join us as a Product Engineer to build and scale products that directly impact millions of underserved Americans. This role is for you if you want broad ownership and care deeply about what gets built, not just how it's built. You'll be expected to aggressively leverage AI-assisted development tools to dramatically accelerate your output and maximize impact, all while maintaining strong code quality.
About us
Kovo is expanding access to financial tools for people historically excluded from the traditional credit system. We believe everyone deserves the opportunity for economic independence, and we’re building products that help people establish financial identity and unlock opportunity.
Over the past three years, Kovo has grown revenue 20x while maintaining exceptional capital efficiency. We rank above the 99th percentile in revenue-per-employee benchmarks, reflecting the leverage of a small, high-performing team.
The team combines the ambition of a venture-scale company with the discipline of a profitable business. We reached positive free cash flow early in our lifecycle, allowing us to grow with less dilution and focus on building for the long term.
Kovo is backed by Inspired Capital and Homebrew, along with founders and leaders from Plaid, Column, Ramp, Affirm, Cash App, NerdWallet, Alloy, MoonPay, Uber, Etsy, LendingClub, and more. We’re looking for exceptional people to help us scale the company another 20x and beyond.
Why you might be excited about us
Direct impact on millions of people’s ability to access credit
High ownership with minimal bureaucracy
Speed, learning, and impact are core values
Why you might not be excited about us
Roles and priorities evolve quickly
Some systems and processes are still being built
The pace of execution and career growth is intense (not optimized for work-life balance)
About the role
Engineering at Kovo is evolving quickly. You will own problems end-to-end, deliver a lot of high-quality code, dig into data, make product decisions, and iterate quickly in production.
Our core stack is Node (TypeScript) on AWS and React (NextJS) on Vercel.
What you’ll do
Own product areas end-to-end, shaping both the problems we tackle and how we solve them
Often start from a blank slate, and iterate based on data
Make pragmatic, data-driven tradeoffs between speed, quality, user experience, and scalability
Develop and communicate product opinions backed by evidence
Help establish patterns and norms for product-oriented engineering
About you
Product-oriented mindset
Intrinsically curious about users, data, the business, and better ways of working
Motivated by ownership and accountability for outcomes
Care more about shipping high-quality features than writing code
Can reason about user needs using data, business context, and direct customer input
Thrive in ambiguity and are comfortable defining success as you go
Comfortable working across backend and frontend boundaries
Focused on shipping high-quality code fast - however it gets done
Comfortable in a high-intensity role and seeking an ambitious workload.
Strong sense of ownership and willingness to deliver on tight deadlines. This takes many of our engineers more than 50 hours a week.
Believe software engineering is evolving from writing code to orchestrating AI agents and are excited by this because it force-multiplies your output and impact
Embrace AI generation of code and workflow improvements while maintaining high quality
Hate AI slop and care about code quality
Relevant experience
5+ years or equivalent depth of experience of professional software engineering experience
Experience with most of the following in production: NodeJS, AWS, React
Bonus: Worked with TypeScript in production