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title: 'Senior Platform Engineer at Taekus'
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# Senior Platform Engineer at Taekus

- **Company:** Taekus
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $175k–$230k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/taekus/f8bf7189-6e1e-4f2c-83b8-6739e6eddb49

## Job description

Taekus is a profitable fintech and travel startup building a next-generation premium banking and rewards ecosystem for affluent customers. With $70M in annual revenue and $3B+ 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 $3B+ annually in transactions and operate as a highly profitable company. With a lean team of under 20 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

## About Taekus

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Taekus is a fintech company building a premium travel credit card that optimizes reward points for airline tickets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; $6.43M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (CEO: Austen Mance)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Services, Fintech, Payments
- **Target customers**: B2C – individual travelers seeking premium credit card rewards and better financial services
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Premium rewards payments products for those who want better financial services.” [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taekus)

## Products & Services
- **[Taekus Credit Card]**: A premium credit card designed for travelers, offering rewards and benefits with an emphasis on optimizing reward points for airline tickets. The product is a financial services offering (credit card) rather than a software platform. [taekus.com](https://taekus.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $6.43M (Seed round completed August 2022) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/taekus)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Soma Capital, Adapt Ventures [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/taekus)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 18 employees (+44.4% year-over-year) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taekus)
  - Claimed profitability “4 months after launch” (as of Feb 2022) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taekus)
  - Active hiring across engineering, compliance, underwriting, and operations [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taekus)
  - Monthly website visits: ~90,901 (traffic growth +141% month-over-month) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taekus)

## Competitive Advantages
- Focus on premium travel rewards with a specific optimization for airline tickets, differentiating from general cash-back or points cards.
- Early profitability claim suggests strong unit economics and product-market fit.
- Backed by reputable early-stage investors (Soma Capital, Adapt Ventures).

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the team across engineering, product, and operations to expand the credit card offering and customer base.
- Building a “traveler’s dream credit card” with a seamless rewards experience.
- Maintaining profitability while growing headcount and market presence.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, fast-growing fintech startup (20 total employees) with a focus on engineering and product excellence. Team alumni include engineers from Square, Cash App, DoorDash, and Box. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taekus)
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Some roles are listed as remote, while the San Francisco HQ has an on-site workspace. The company appears to support flexible work arrangements. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/taekus)
- **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but the company emphasizes building premium financial products and has a strong technical stack (Django, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Figma, etc.) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taekus)
- **Engineering Culture**: Technical team makes up ~35% of headcount; senior and head-level roles are common. The stack is modern and focused on fintech reliability.

## Sources
1. [taekus.com](https://taekus.com/)
2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/taekus](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/taekus)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/taekus)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/taekus)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taekus)

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