About the role
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 & Security 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. 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. Set technical direction for platform and security, driving toward infrastructure-as-code over time.
