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# Technical Program Manager at Kunai

- **Company:** Kunai
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kunai/jobs/5197129007

## Job description

Kunai builds full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. Together, we are changing the world’s relationship with financial services. At Kunai, we help our clients modernize, capitalize on emerging trends, and evolve their business for the coming decades by remaining tech-agnostic and human-centered.

As part of your first client engagement, you will help drive the retirement, remediation, and migration of legacy applications across a large payments platform program, working closely with engineering teams to define scope and sequence the work.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Manage a portfolio of legacy application retirement and migration projects across a payments platform program
- Partner with engineering and architecture teams to define disposition paths for legacy systems: retire, remediate, or migrate to new infrastructure
- Bring a software engineering lens to technical scoping, sequencing, and tradeoff discussions with engineering leads
- Build and maintain project plans, timelines, and dependency maps across multiple concurrent workstreams and products
- Identify risks and blockers early, and drive them to resolution with the right technical and business stakeholders
- Track progress against milestones and report status clearly to program leadership and client stakeholders
- Coordinate across engineering, infrastructure, security, and compliance teams to keep migrations on track
- Facilitate program-level ceremonies (planning, status reviews, retros) to keep teams aligned
- Maintain clear documentation of application disposition decisions and migration progress
- Flag scope or timeline changes early and help the team adjust plans accordingly

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 7+ years experience as a Technical Program Manager running programs involving application engineering, modernization, migration, or retirement, ideally leading multiple products or a portfolio in large organizations
- Software engineering background and/or enough technical depth to scope and sequence work directly with engineering teams
- Exposure to product management, with an understanding of how technical roadmaps connect to product priorities
- Experience in banking, payments, credit, debit, settlements, or another regulated financial services environment
- Familiarity with cloud migration concepts and target infrastructure (AWS or similar)
- Working knowledge of Agile delivery practices and tools like JIRA and Confluence
- Experience managing risk, dependencies, and stakeholder communication across multiple workstreams
- A clear communicator who can translate technical detail for both engineers and business stakeholders
- Organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable keeping several moving parts on track at once

Our success over the past 20 years is rooted in our exceptional team, which thrives in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.

We are proud to offer our employees a range of benefits, including competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and flexible work arrangements, all designed to help them thrive. As we continue to expand, we remain committed to cultivating an environment where people feel valued, have a voice, and are given the tools to grow—both personally and professionally—while pushing the boundaries of innovation in the fintech industry.

Minimum Degree Required:

- Bachelor’s Degree, in lieu of a degree, demonstrating in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college is required

## About Kunai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kunai is a digital product development consultancy specializing in AI, cloud engineering, data engineering, and product development for the world's leading financial institutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Acquired by PwC in August 2025)
- **Headquarters**: San Ramon, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Sandeep Sood

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Financial Services Technology (Fintech), IT Consulting, Digital Transformation
- Target customers: B2B — specifically large banks, credit and payment networks, financial infrastructure providers, and other financial institutions
- Mission or purpose statement: "Building the future of finance" by accelerating innovation for the world's leading financial institutions.

## Products & Services
- **Product Development**: Full-stack software engineering to turn new ideas into market-ready financial products, from concept to code.
- **AI & Automation**: Optimizing workflows, improving speed, cutting costs, and enhancing customer experiences through AI-driven solutions.
- **Cloud Engineering**: Migrating and scaling cloud services with a team of experienced cloud-native builders.
- **Data Engineering**: Structuring data for success, creating AI-ready data for decisions, predictive analytics, and personalized financials.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by PwC in a deal whose financial terms were not disclosed)
- **Key Metric**: Acquired by PwC in August 2025; 25 employees as of the acquisition announcement
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: PwC (acquirer); clients include the world's largest banks and leading payment networks
- **Growth Signals**: The acquisition by PwC positions Kunai to scale its offerings with access to PwC’s extensive resources and global network. PwC stated the acquisition accelerates its strategy to lead in tech-enabled transformation within the Financial Services sector.

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep domain expertise in financial services, with a team that hails from the biggest names in banking, fintech, and financial services.
- A "tech-agnostic" approach that allows them to choose the best technology for each client's specific problem.
- A rapid-prototyping model that helps clients (especially CFOs) see early evidence of ROI before committing full budgets to large-scale transformations.
- A culture of "sweating the decimals" — recognizing that there is no 80/20 rule in banking and striving for precision in every task.

## Strategic Focus
- Post-acquisition, Kunai is focused on accelerating innovation and amplifying its impact for clients by leveraging PwC’s global network and resources.
- The company aims to challenge outdated RFP processes in financial services, helping firms execute digital transformation faster with smaller, more agile teams.
- Kunai emphasizes building and hosting platforms, then transitioning them back to clients so they can take control long-term.
- AI is treated as a standard part of the engineering process, not a standalone product, and is incorporated holistically into each project.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "fanatical about fintech," with a focus on solving hard problems, client obsession, and precision. Values include "Get Fanatical," "Be the Reason Why," "Hard Problems Are the Reward," "Sweat the Decimals," "Stamp Your Passport" (global flexibility), and "Take Care of Yourself."
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Remote-first company, with employees across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.
- **Notable Perks**: Strong emphasis on healthy, balanced lifestyles and personal/professional growth. The company states its mission is "to become the best place to work in the tech industry because that's what the best talent deserves."
- **Engineering Culture**: The team is made up of mid- to senior-level engineers who are described as "evangelists for software best practices." The company is human-centered and tech-agnostic, encouraging engineers to think outside the box and solve problems that haven't been solved yet.

## Sources
1. [kunaico.com](https://kunaico.com/)
2. [kunaico.com/careers](https://www.kunaico.com/careers/)
3. [Greenhouse Jobs Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kunai)
4. [PwC Press Release](https://www.pwc.com/us/en/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/kunai.html)
5. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/kunai)
6. [CFO Dive Article](https://www.cfodive.com/news/pwc-kunai-acquisition-bank-cfos/725634/) (Referenced via CB Insights)

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