Senior Engineer, Platform
About Us
We’re building the world’s leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets - empowering families, fueling local economies, and changing how millions access financial services.
Since our launch in 2019, we have transformed how money moves across borders with our operations spanning 6 out of 7 continents and covering both the busiest and most underserved (remittance) corridors. We tapped into a massive shift - from banks to phones - bringing digital finance to places where traditional systems never reached. The next stage of growth will fuel a network of services and products especially designed to make money more accessible to diaspora communities including local cards, and additional savings and payments features.
We’re growing fast, backed by world-class investors, and scaling a product that blends real world impact with cutting edge fintech innovation.
Here’s a little more:
Founded by Harvard grads and 3-time founders who previously built Segovia (acquired) and GiveDirectly (>$300M revenue, fastest-growing NGO in the world)
Backed by top investors including Spark Capital, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital, Unbound, Wamda, and more
Built by global top performers from Bain, Google, McKinsey, Uber, Checkout, Bolt, and beyond - we move fast, stay humble, and care deeply about our mission
Truly global team - 250+ people, 50+ nationalities, 50+ languages
Guided by our values - ownership, impact, humility, and heart - in deed, not just word
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Engineer, Platform/SRE to join our growing engineering team. As an early member of the team, you will also have a lot of impact on our team culture, processes and norms. We’re an encouraging environment that values both teamwork and autonomy. We have many exciting upcoming challenges in supporting an exponentially scaling platform with new product launches, and much more!
Responsibilities
Primary engineer driving best practices and improved adoption of observability tools, especially Datadog
Optimize Taptap’s deployment methodologies using Github Actions and AWS ECS
Drive maturation of Taptap Send service management through adoption of SRE best Practices
Contribute to Taptap Send infrastructure as code projects, especially in Terraform
Work with other engineering teams to assure optimal operation of Taptap Send’s systems including responding to large-scale incidents
Requirements
Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, Cloudformation and Ansible
Familiarity with industry leading CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, BitBucket Pipelines, CircleCI, BuildKite, etc.
Experience with hands-on software engineering as part of a larger team or project (open-source experience acceptable)
Experience scripting in Python
Hands-on experience with Docker and container schedulers including AWS ECS & EKS, Kubernetes, Mesos/Marathon, etc.
Hands-on cloud experience, especially in AWS. AWS certification preferred.
Degree in Computer Science, IT, or similar field; a Master’s is a plus or seven years' equivalent experience
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. 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 us 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.