Senior Engineer, Finance Engineering in London

Location: London

Employment Type: Full time

Department: 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. Top performers from varied organizations (e.g., Bain, Bolt, Google, McKinsey, SafeBoda, Uber, Zipline). Driven by mission, guided by values. Team as global as the mission, >30 languages from 25 countries.

About Us: Taptap Send is backed by top VCs, 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 Investors: Spark Capital, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital, and many other context‑specific angels.

The 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.

Your 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 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.