Senior Backend Engineer, Platform, Consumer Apps - Klover at Attain
Chicago, IL
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Jul 14, 2026
Chicago, IL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend engineering role focused on building and maintaining microservices for a fintech platform that handles high-volume financial transactions and real-time payments. Day-to-day work involves designing APIs that connect to banks and payment processors, developing data-driven services for account management and transaction history, and writing production-grade code in Rust and Go. Best suited to engineers with a background in financial or payments systems and an interest in event-driven, microservice architectures.
Senior level · 5+ years · Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 330 people in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 240–420
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $137,335 (middle half $106,829–$171,337).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (4)
All qualifications — including Rust, Go, SQL, microservices, gRPC/protobuf/GraphQL, Kafka/RabbitMQ, and cloud experience — are listed under a 'Preferred Qualifications' heading. Rust and Go are marked required here because they are also called out with firm language in the 'You'll be a great fit' framing ('You are excited to build microservices using Rust and Go'), which functions as a hard gate on those two languages specifically. All other skills remain preferred per the section heading.
The role is hybrid (4 days in-office in Chicago, 1 day remote), so it is not fully remote.
No compensation range is disclosed in the posting.
The title is not given in the posting; the role is inferred as a backend software engineer from the full job description context.
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