10 months ago
USA (city not specified)Senior
Base Salary
$175k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for financial transactions.
- Own full feature delivery across core systems including payments and rewards.
- Contribute to system architecture and technical design as the platform evolves.
- Collaborate with frontend and mobile engineers for end-to-end feature development.
- Improve reliability and performance of backend systems through testing and monitoring.
- Participate in sprint planning and production support for critical services.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with a backend focus.
- Production experience building backend systems in Python, ideally using Django.
- Experience designing APIs and services using PostgreSQL and AWS.
- Working knowledge of frontend technologies like TypeScript and React.
- Comfort in distributed systems and high-availability production environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Paid travel for onsite interviews in major cities.
- Opportunity to work in a scaling startup with exponential growth.
- Chance to influence technical and strategic direction in a high-caliber team.
Tech Stack
Categories
About Taekus
Taekus builds premium rewards payment products—travel rewards credit cards, debit cards, and related banking services—for affluent customers. It operates a rewards-focused banking ecosystem and partners across travel and financial services. The company is privately held, headquartered in San Francisco, and reports roughly $70M in annual revenue with more than $3B in yearly transaction volume, indicating a profitable, scaled operation.