Senior Platform Engineer

Job description

Taekus is a profitable fintech and travel startup building a next-generation premium banking and rewards ecosystem for affluent customers. With $120M+ in annual revenue and $4B+ in annual transaction volume, we're entering a new stage of growth focused on scaling our core banking systems, rewards infrastructure, and partner integrations. We're seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own the infrastructure, reliability, and security that everything we build runs on. This is a high-autonomy role for an engineer ready to define a function from the ground up—setting technical direction, taking work from concept through production, and growing into broader technical leadership as we scale. Join us as we tackle a $3.2T opportunity to redefine the super-premium financial services and rewards market—driving innovation beyond what's existed since the inception of rewards credit cards **Interview Process** Candidates must be able to travel to San Francisco, New York, Chicago, or Austin for an onsite interview. All required travel will be paid for by Taekus. **Your Responsibilities** - Own and unify the platform and infrastructure that powers our core products and services, driving toward infrastructure-as-code over time. - Treat our engineers as your customers—build the tooling, paved roads, and self-service workflows that let them ship quickly and safely. - Own CI/CD and release automation, keeping the path to production fast, reliable, and observable. - Own feature-flag, configuration, and secrets infrastructure, along with the reliability of our background-job, caching, and queue systems (Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ). - Improve observability and operational health across services through structured logging, error monitoring, and APM, and share in the on-call rotation for platform and infrastructure services. - Own the platform's security guardrails—secrets management, IAM and access control, PCI/PII data handling, and vulnerability management. - Own and automate compliance and audit readiness (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, partner security reviews), coordinating external auditors and making the process repeatable. **What We're Looking For** - 6+ years of professional engineering experience, with a strong platform, infrastructure, or backend focus. - Deep, hands-on AWS experience (EKS/Kubernetes, EC2, Lambda, RDS) in high-availability production environments. - Strong CI/CD and release-engineering background, with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes, and a track record of building tooling that improves developer experience (Terraform a plus). - Comfort working in a Python/Django codebase (Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL), able to read and contribute to platform code. - Experience with modern observability and monitoring tooling across logging, error tracking, and APM. - A security-minded engineer, ideally with hands-on PCI-DSS or SOC 2 experience. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. **You’d Love This Job If** - You want to establish and own a platform from the ground up. - You'd rather automate security and compliance than grind through them by hand. - You enjoy contributing across the code base where needed. - You want to be in a scaling startup that is experiencing exponential growth. - You're excited by building foundational work and enjoy making an impact. - Traveling is in your DNA and you get to apply your passion into your work. - You thrive in growing high-caliber teams and want to influence both technical and strategic direction. **About Taekus** Taekus is a 6-year-old luxury financial services company that offers travel rewards credit cards, debit cards, and other banking services for the affluent market. We currently process $4B+ annually in transactions and operate as a highly profitable company. With a lean team of 25 employees, we’re undergoing tremendous growth as we redefine the premium banking and rewards experience. **What We Offer** - Competitive salary and stock option plan - Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance - 401(k) plan with 5% company match - Flexible vacation policy - Fully remote work environment