Senior Engineer, Finance Engineering

Flourish Ventures; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive and diverse workforce

Flexibility in recruitment process

Job summary

Taptap Send is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join its engineering team in Greater London. You will develop and iterate on features for internal tooling, working closely with various departments to enhance internal user experiences.

Your role encompasses ownership of development processes, coding across the stack primarily in Python, and mentoring team members. Candidates should have 5+ years of experience in Python or Kotlin, along with expertise in AWS.

Join a collaborative and inclusive environment committed to personal and professional development.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building API applications using Python or Kotlin.
• Experience in AWS cloud services like ECS, Lambda, RDS.
• Proven track record of taking user-facing features from conception to launch.
• Experience in collaborative and fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of development of internal tool solutions.
• Build experiences across the stack using Python and occasionally Kotlin.
• Write well-tested, high-quality code.
• Mentor and advise team members.

Skills

API applications using Python

AWS services (ECS, Lambda, RDS, etc.)

Communication skills

Mentoring others

Event driven system experience

Tools

PostgreSQL

Terraform

React Native

Python

Kotlin

Job description

Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team to define, build and iterate on features for our internal tooling. You will work closely with Developers, Product, Operations, Customer Support, Growth and other functions to design and build a reliable, intuitive, and simple experience for our internal users in finance, treasury, and operations. As an early member of the team, 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. Our internal tools leverage these technologies in addition to Web React and Python.

We’re an encouraging environment that values both teamwork and autonomy, and have many exciting upcoming challenges, including scaling up to handle increased volume and complexity, improving UI and UX to drive growth and retention, building internal tools, developing new small business solutions, and much more!

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of development of internal tool solutions
• Build experiences across the stack using primarily Python, and on occasion Kotlin
• Write well‑tested, high quality code, with an eye towards generics and re‑use
• Work closely with design and product teams to regularly ship working features
• Participate in release planning and deployment of released build
• Mentor and advise team members
• Evaluate and deliver timeline estimates for projects

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience building API applications using Python or Kotlin ideally.
• Experience working in AWS cloud, and leveraging services like ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EventBridge.
• Experience owning user‑facing features end‑to‑end, from conception to launch.
• Experience developing software in a collaborative, multi‑functional, and fast‑paced environment.
• Experience working on systems that have real‑world performance and reliability constraints.
• Strong communication and ability to manage conflicting priorities, setting expectations with stakeholders and be a driving force.

Ideally

• Experience developing event driven system.
• Experience CI, CD processes and tools.
• High personal code/development standards (code review, unit testing, documentation, etc.)
• Desire to contribute to frontend development.

Taptap Send is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, experience and business need. 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. Any information you provide in this respect will only be used to accommodate your requirements.

Note: we recognize imposter syndrome is real - any candidate that does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.