Senior Backend Engineer, Expansion

Taptap Send; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to enhance their backend integration systems. This role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies such as Kotlin, PostgreSQL, and AWS, while contributing to a mission-driven team focused on reducing financial inequity. As part of a dynamic and fast-paced environment, you'll collaborate with various teams to build a secure and reliable platform for handling remittances. Your expertise will help shape the culture and processes of this innovative company, making a significant impact on the lives of many. Join a team that values impact, collaboration, and creativity.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in backend system development.
• Proficient in Kotlin or Java, PostgreSQL, and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Build unified interfaces for third-party payment integrations.
• Take ownership of backend system architecture and implementation.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

PostgreSQL

AWS

API Integration

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Our Mission
Reduce inequity by helping immigrants move money home, and become the leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets.

The Team

• Founded by Harvard grads / 3rd-time founders --- also founded Segovia (successful exit) and GiveDirectly (>300M revenue, fastest-growing NGO).
• Top performers from top and varied organizations (e.g., Bain, Bolt, Google, McKinsey, SafeBoda, Uber, Zipline) --- we like moving fast, and we hire people that do as well.
• Driven by mission, guided by values (see below) - in deed, not just word.
• Team as global as the mission, >30 languages from 25 countries (i.e., if you're interested in learning to make Chicken Moambe, we're the place).

About Us
Taptap Send is backed by top VCs (Spark, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital, etc.), rapidly growing and a great place for those looking for both impact and a fast-paced tech startup environment. Launched in 2019, Taptap is tapping into a transformative shift in global finance: from banks to phones. Taptap Send allows immigrants to send money home instantly and with no fee*, saving money in the process. Our mission is to reduce inequity by helping immigrants move money home, and become the leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets. And that's just the beginning...

Our Investors

• Spark Capital
• Canaan
• Reid Hoffman
• Breyer Capital (Jim Breyer)
• Unbound (Shravin Mittal)
• Wamda (Fadi Ghandour)
• Firstminute Capital
• Slow Ventures (Sam Lessin)
• Helios Partners (Souleymane Ba)
• Crossbeam Ventures (Ali Hamed)
• Nikesh Arora
• Samih Toukan

The Role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing engineering team and build out our backend third party integration systems as we scale. You will work closely with Product, Operations, Customer Support, Growth and other functions to design and build out a reliable, performant, and secure platform for handling remittances across countries. As an early member of the team, we hope you will also have a lot of impact on our team culture, processes and norms.

Taptap Send is a cross-platform mobile app developed with React Native and TypeScript, which talks to a backend service written in Kotlin and backed by a PostgreSQL database, all of which runs on AWS and is managed via Terraform and Ansible. This is a backend-focused role, but you will have plenty of opportunities to work across the stack to bring Taptap Send's industry-leading product to new countries.

Your Responsibilities:

• Build out unified interface encapsulating dozens of third party payment integrations.
• Work on one of the pillar revenue centers of the organization.
• Take ownership of backend system architecture and implementation.
• Build performant and resilient data flows; keeping security in mind during every step.
• Work closely with product team to regularly ship working features.
• Work in an iterative fashion.
• Evaluate and deliver timeline estimates.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional experience building backend systems.
• Proficiency with Kotlin or Java / JVM.
• Proficiency with PostgreSQL.
• Experience with AWS: S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda, etc.
• Experience implementing and managing elaborate integrations with third-party APIs.
• Experience working on systems that have real-world performance and reliability constraints.
• Experience developing software in a collaborative, multi-functional, and fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and ability to manage conflicting priorities, setting expectations with stakeholders and be a driving force.

Ideally:

• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code technologies, like Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with SRE or similar infrastructure work.
• Experience with Data Engineering concepts and workflows.
• High personal code/development standards (code review, unit testing, documentation, etc.).

Taptap Values

• Impact first
• Team next
• Accept reality
• Propose solutions
• Win with grit
• Be proactively candid, with yourself and others
• Love the particular
• Own it
• Create positive energy
• Maybe, even have fun

Taptap Send is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. We strongly encourage applications who are members of underrepresented communities to apply. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know.