We’re looking for a scrappy backend engineer based in London to join our fintech startup at the ground floor. This role is a good fit for those who are excited about independence, impact, and contributing to the battle against scams and financial crime. If this sounds like a match for you, read on to learn more ⬇️
We’re on a mission to rid the world of scams. Last year, consumers reported over 200k scams in the UK alone, and it’s likely that many more went unreported. At TunicPay, we’re rearchitecting payments infrastructure to bring that number to 0 by giving unprecedented insight into and control of each transaction. Our core infrastructure is building Recipient Intelligence, and eventually the governance for real-time payments.
We are a super early fintech startup — to give you a sense of just how early, we closed our seed round last November 💡, and our team is <10 people today (depending on your start date!)🧤. There’s a ton of exciting challenges we need to tackle, from integrating diverse data about participants in the payments network, to developing the next generation of security & privacy-protecting protocols, to crafting delightful experiences that drive conversion through our consumer-facing touchpoints. And as if that’s not hard enough, we are working with some of our customers’ most sensitive data and need to deliver 24/7/365 uptime. Our goals are almost ludicrously ambitious, but scams have to be solved, and we think we’re the team to do it 🦸♀️.
We believe in strong in-person collaboration so are requiring 3+ days a week jamming together in our London office (Covent Garden for now).
Nicky (co-founder) previously co-founded Nova Credit, helping immigrants access credit. We’ve served millions of immigrants, raised over $130M (GC, Index, KPCB), built a team of 100+ people across three continents. Before that it was Stanford MBA, Bain, international development, and Cambridge. 🇬🇷-🇬🇧 married to🇰🇷-🇺🇲, parent, intermittent reader/runner, smack talker.
Nico (co-founder) spent the last 4 years as CEO of Casai, LatAm’s largest short-term rental operator with almost 2k apartments in 🇲🇽 and 🇧🇷 and hosted >100k guests. Previously met Nicky as Nova Credit’s first biz hire right after the seed round. Started career @ BCG after studying at Yale 🐶 & Oxford. Born in 🇵🇭 & grew up in Memphis, TN, the birthplace of rock & roll 🎸.
Cyrus (engineering lead) has experience across a wide range of industries and has built large-scale systems in a variety of sensitive contexts from banking 🏦 to defence 🛡️. Has been working with Nicky and Nico since late last year. Ex-Palantir and Morgan Stanley, before that Imperial College. Statistically most likely to be found walking my dog 🐕 and would often rather be climbing rocks 🧗♂️.
And here is a lil video about us as humans (feel free to watch @2x 🙈) 👇. A small caveat that this was recorded a while back so our team is bigger (and our plants are happier!):
Here are some thoughts on who would be successful in the role. We know we won’t be able to assess these from your CV, but our interview process will be designed around them: