Senior Engineer, Internal Tools

Location

London

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

• Founded by Harvard grads / 3rd‑time founders --- also founded Segovia (successful exit) and Give Directly (>300M revenue, fastest‑growing NGO).
• 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.
• 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. Read more about the journey in Reid Hoffmann’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 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 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. 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!

• 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

• 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, Dynamo
  
  DB, SQS, SNS, Event Bridge.
• 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…