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How KakaoBank hires

Truth index
B 81/100
Median time to fill
28 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
75%
Reposted roles
0%

KakaoBank scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 75% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 28 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

KakaoBank is a Seongnam internet only bank that launched in 2017 and signed up millions of customers within weeks. It offers deposits, loans and card products entirely through a mobile application with no branches, and is known for playful product design. The company is one of the most valuable listed banks in Korea by market capitalisation relative to assets.

News

News The Korea Times 2 months ago
KakaoBank's labor union reaffirms 5-day strike next week
The labor union of internet-only KakaoBank on Wednesday urged management to sweeten its wage deal as its members are set to launch a five-day strik...
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News The Asia Business Daily 2 months ago
KakaoBank Union Announces Five-Day General Strike for Next Week
The labor union at KakaoBank has announced a full-scale strike scheduled for the entire next week, stating that management has failed to present accep
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News The Asia Business Daily 2 months ago
"Sticking to Every Aspect of Daily Life"… Launch of 'Kakaobank Chakbut Shinhan Card'
On August 21, Shinhan Card announced the launch of the "Kakaobank Chakbut Shinhan Card" in collaboration with Kakaobank, featuring a range of lifestyl
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News CHOSUNBIZ 1 year ago
KakaoBank sees rise in empty-collateral loans after boosting mid-to-low credit lending
KakaoBank sees rise in empty-collateral loans after boosting mid-to-low credit lending KakaoBanks increase in mid-to-low credit lending drives a jump
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News CHOSUNBIZ 1 year ago
KakaoBank reappoints Yun Ho-young as CEO for fifth term amidst financial innovations
KakaoBank reappoints Yun Ho-young as CEO for fifth term amidst financial innovations Yun Ho-young 54, Chief Executive Officer of KakaoBank, has succe
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News The Korea Times 1 year ago
KakaoBank achieves record-high earnings in 2024, driven by growth of non-interest income
KakaoBank recorded an operating profit of 606.9 billion won ($418 million) and a net income of 440.1 billion won last year, driven by growth in non...
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News Euromoney 4 years ago
KakaoBank turns to platform growth
South Korea's KakaoBank is unusual among Asian pure-play digital banks, in that it is not only growing fast but is also profitable. Having harvested the low-hanging fruit of wallet balances, it is now building higher-fee products. And last year's listing
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News The Korea Herald 5 years ago
KakaoBank's success threatens traditional banks: Moody's
KakaoBank's rapid growth underscores the threat Big Tech poses to incumbent banks in Korea, Moody's Investors Service on Monday said. The
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at KakaoBank over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
52
Postings analysed
23
Stack modernity
85/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL43%
Python26%
Java17%
Kotlin13%
Frameworks & libraries
Spring Boot9%
CUDA4%
Flink4%
SGLang4%
Databases
Redis4%
Cloud & platforms
Figma17%
Kubernetes17%
AWS9%
Amazon EKS9%
AI & ML
LLM13%
Claude9%
AWQ4%
GPTQ4%
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Full KakaoBank tech stack 52 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$19k
Typical range
$18k – $20k
Open positions
2
2 Jobs
Intern 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 2 $19k $18k – $20k
Highest paying role 마케팅 업무 지원 어시스턴트 (체험형 인턴) $20k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
75/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
17
6 opened / 21 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
24 days
faster than 47% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Operations
30%
Product
20%
Early Careers
13% ▲
Design
10% ▲
AI/ML
7% ▼
Backend
7% ▼
Actively hiring for Early Careers (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Triton Inference Server to stack Oct 2026
Added Synthetic Data to stack Oct 2026
Added RAG to stack Oct 2026
Added GPTQ to stack Oct 2026
Added Docker to stack Oct 2026
Added AWQ to stack Oct 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Oct 2026
Added Google Docs to stack Oct 2026
Added Linux to stack Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Seongnam
Seongnam South Korea
HQ
17 open roles 30 posted in 90 days 29% engineering $19k Avg Salary
hires for Operations, AI/ML, Product
카카오뱅크 판교오피스 (경기도 성남시 분당구 분당내곡로 131)
seen since Dec 2025 job postings

Jobs

In office • Seongnam
Python
vLLM
Triton Inference Server
AI Agents
NLP
AWQ
GPTQ
LLM
RAG
Synthetic Data
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
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≈ $67k – $186k per year (Estimated) • In office • Seongnam
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≈ $51k – $138k per year (Estimated) • In office • 3+ years exp • Seongnam
Python
SQL
AI Agents
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Apply
In office • Seongnam
Java
SQL
Spring Boot
Apply
In office • Seongnam
Python
Java
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
AWS
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
Linux
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$18k per year • In office • Seongnam
Adobe Photoshop
Figma
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≈ $59k – $158k per year (Estimated) • In office • 3+ years exp • Seongnam
Python
Java
Kotlin
SQL
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Spark
Flink
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Apply
In office • 2+ years exp • Seongnam
vLLM
CUDA Toolkit
NLP
SGLang
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
TGI
LLM
Mixture of Experts
CUDA
Triton
Speculative Decoding
DevOps
Kubernetes
Apply