A money app for the majority. Tala bridges digital and cash ecosystems to help customers seamlessly manage their financial lives, all in one app. Backed by GV and IVP.
About the role
Tala is seeking a driven engineer to join our growing Product Development team. The ideal candidate is adept at problem-solving and debugging, and is committed to continuously improving existing systems and processes. You will work closely with fellow Tala engineers to build and extend Tala's backend architecture to support new country launches, new features, and a fast growing user base. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Language: Fluency in English, including clear written communication, which is how most work happens across time zones
- Backend engineering: Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating applications in Java, Kotlin, and/or Scala, including a web framework such as Spring
- Track record: Has led and delivered multiple domain-significant projects, each validated in production over a meaningful period, including large scale consumer applications on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure) using microservices architecture
- Technical expertise: Subject-matter expert in their own domain and conversant in adjacent ones. Maintains a working mental model of the wider company architecture and where the seams are. Assesses code and design quality beyond their own area
- Solution building and system design: Designs services and their dependencies with security, maintainability, operability, and scale accounted for. Authors design documents (EDDs) and defend them in review. Designs for failure cases, not just the happy path
- API design: Expert knowledge of REST API design and development for mobile and web use
More about this role
Tala is the AI-native credit infrastructure that connects global capital to the global majority. We combine proprietary risk intelligence with an expanding network of capital and distribution partners to power credit access at scale. To date, Tala has distributed more than $9 billion in capital to more than 14 million customers across Africa, Latin America, and Asia, building the definitive contextual dataset on thin-file borrowers in emerging markets. Tala is now converting that foundation into shared infrastructure that partners, capital providers, and ecosystems can build on.
The company has been named to the Fortune Impact 20 list, CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies twice, CNBC Disruptor 50 for five years, and Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for ten years running.
Tala is seeking a driven engineer to join our growing Product Development team. The ideal candidate is adept at problem-solving and debugging, and is committed to continuously improving existing systems and processes. You will work closely with fellow Tala engineers to build and extend Tala's backend architecture to support new country launches, new features, and a fast growing user base.
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