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title: 'Software Engineer,  Flights and Loyalty at Taekus'
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# Software Engineer,  Flights and Loyalty at Taekus

- **Company:** Taekus
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/taekus/fb2e022e-c2e6-447b-9517-6d569473c8fa

## Job description

Taekus is a fintech and travel startup building a next generation premium financial services brand. As a profitable fintech with a $70M revenue/yr and new carrier partnerships, we’re entering a new stage of growth—significant expansion of our loyalty engine. We’re seeking a flights focused full-stack or backend engineer to help scale our flight routing & booking engine. This includes working with airline loyalty programs to build our partnerships out for flight search and booking. You will be joining our resident flights expert in shaping the Flights & Loyalty team. Help us tackle this $3.2T opportunity to innovate in the true super-premium market 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

- Driving Core Feature Delivery: Taking ownership of major feature releases across the entire flight booking funnel, from flight search to booking creation and post-booking fulfillment.
- Building logic for award ticket inventory pricing & point transferring to our partners.
- Integrating with external airlines and GDS partners and navigating their complex communication protocols and data schemas.

## What You Bring to the Table

- 6+ years of engineering experience, most recently writing production-grade Python
- Experience with GDS systems, such as Amadeus or Sabre
- Technical experience in: Python / Django, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, AWS.
- You’re into credit card points/travel hacking and book yourself many flights with points — and you can play all those pesky airline rewards search engines like an instrument.
- You’ve considered building your own flight inventory scrapers, have multiple credit cards, and have history with FlyerTalk

You'd Love This Job If

- 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 offering premium checking, credit, and debit accounts—paired with an exclusive travel rewards ecosystem. We serve an affluent, global customer base that expects excellence in both experience and execution. With $3B+ in annual transaction volume and strong profitability, we’re redefining what it means to bank beautifully.

## 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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