Staff Engineer, Accounts

Location

New York

Full time

Engineering

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

The Team
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Founded by Harvard grads / 3rd-time founders --- also founded Segovia (successful exit) and Give Directly (>300M revenue, fastest-growing NGO).
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Top performers from top and varied organizations (e.g., Bain, Bolt, Google, McKinsey, Safe Boda, Uber, Zipline) --- we like moving fast, and we hire people that do as well.
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Driven by mission, guided by values (see below) – in deed, not just word.
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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. Read more about the journey in Reid Hoffman’s words or Tech Crunch article
Launched in 2019, Taptap is tapping into a transformative shift in global finance: from banks to phones. While this has affected wealthier countries as well, it has been nothing short of a revolution for the emerging markets where the overwhelming majority of population had been unable to access digital finance previously. Taptap Send allows immigrants to send money home instantly and with no fee*, saving money in the process.

With a formal market size of >700B alone, we’ve got a lot more saving to do for our users. 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...

* We charge fees for transfers on fixed exchange rate corridors (e.g., XOF, XAF).

Our Investors
Spark Capital, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital (Jim Breyer), Unbound (Shravin Mittal), Wamda (Fadi Ghandour), First minute Capital, Slow Ventures (Sam Lessin), Helios Partners (Souleymane Ba), Crossbeam Ventures (Ali Hamed), Nikesh Arora, Samih Toukan, and many other context-specific angels

We are looking for a Tech Lead to join our growing engineering team and guide the evolution of our backend systems as we scale. For us, this isn’t just about technical performance, but also supporting the internal human processes that will always power much of our product. 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 leader 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 Type Script, which talks to a backend service written in Kotlin and backed by a Postgre

SQL 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 on all parts of our tech stack.

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, helping our analysts derive business and product insights to drive growth and retention, building internal tools for our customer support and acquisition efforts, and much more!

Your Responsibilities:

• 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

• Mentor and advise team members

• Evaluate and deliver timeline estimates

• Write tests as you code

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional experience architecting backend systems

• 2+ years leading technical projects and/or technical teams

• Proficiency with Kotlin

• Proficiency with PostgreSQL

• Proficiency 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…