Software Engineer, Tunic Pay
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3+ days a week in office (Covent Garden)
Infrastructure to fight financial crime
Open for applications
Infrastructure to fight financial crime
1-20 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Covent Garden)
1-20 employees
Company mission
To build the future of safe payments.
Role
Who you are
- A scrappy, experienced software engineer excited about independence, impact, and the opportunity to battle scams and financial crime. Some hard and soft skills that will help you succeed at this role:
- Languages: Modern backend languages such as Java / Scala / Go / Python / Rust
- Architecture: Solid understanding of how to architect and maintain fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Data: Track record working in sensitive data contexts and good understanding of data governance practices and privacy concerns
- Scrappiness: You can autonomously drive value without the comforts of existing infrastructure, developer tooling, and so on
- Abstraction: You enjoy getting stuck into high level architectural design discussions as much as low-level implementation and debugging
- Breadth: You are unafraid of jumping into new terrain; you have a propensity for picking up new tools and technologies or perhaps some experience in an adjacent role like data engineering or infrastructure
Desirable
- Infrastructure: You’ve worked with cloud technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform), and providers (e.g. AWS, GCP) in the past
- Years of experience: 5 or more. We’re looking for professionals who can structure their own work, and can both think strategically and get their hands dirty. But we’re not overly strict on this one
- Industry: We’re building on top of technical payments infrastructure so prior experience in fintech or banking is a plus, but experience building large-scale systems in any sensitive data context will get you off on the right foot
What the job involves
- Experienced and scrappy second engineer at seed-stage startup
- Build robust, well-tested, performant backend services that integrate with our customers’ systems to drive down scams
- Design intuitive APIs for seamless integration and scalability
- Understand and drive adherence to best practices for security and data management
- Contribute to crucial early technical decision-making: architecture, technical standards, tools, etc
- Dive into any and all parts of the stack alongside the backend as needed, e.g. infrastructure, data, front-end
- Participate in effective code reviews (on both sides of the table!)
- Stay up-to-date with industry best practices & technology, including finding ways to be efficient with genAI tooling
Application process
- 1. Send us your profile (<2 minutes)
- 2. Engineering lead meet-and-greet (45 mins): Introductory call with our engineering lead, Cyrus — get to know each other a little and do some open-ended problem-solving together
- 3. "On-site" (3 hours, can be done remotely!): Deep dive interviews with Cyrus focusing on algorithms, systems design and architecture (we’ll share some materials ahead-of-time to help you prepare). And then some time with the co-founders to better understand the team and the business — this is as much for you as it is for us!
- 4. References and offer: Ideally over dinner!
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Scams are a major problem in the UK, with residents losing huge amounts of money to fraudsters every year. Tunic wants to help combat this problem, by rearchitecting payments infrastructure so that both financial institutes and consumers have control over every transaction.
This is an admittedly ambitious undertaking, but one that represents a vast opportunity given the right approach. Since emerging from stealth, Tunic has been actively developing its platform to combat Authorized Push Payment (APP) fraud. It collaborates with major UK banks and fintechs to offer Payment Intelligence solutions that provide typology-specific data fields and adaptive insights throughout the payment journey.
The company seems to be off to a great start. In February 2025, it was selected to participate in NatWest's inaugural Fintech Growth Programmes. This move shows the company is being recognised for its potential to enhance customer safety in the digital age, and it's engaging in live pilots with leading tier 1 banks, again indicating the growing interest from its customer base.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company values
- Yes, and: This business needs creativity – we value well-channelled positivity (and the discomfort of ideation!) above intellectual scepticism
- Change, and speed, is the only constant: We prize flexibility and velocity. We don’t overpromise on a single strategy or career path. Nor do we value effort (sorry!). Instead, we are focused on outcomes + efficiency
- Straight-shooters: We tell it like it is. To our customers, our investors, ourselves. There is no room for ethical shortcuts, and we’re taking the decades-long vie
- Pranksters, not fraudsters: We’re serious about our work, but not about ourselves. We delight in bringing a little troll spirit
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Nicky Goulimis
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founded Nova Credit, helping immigrants access credit, and they continue to serve as a Board Director. Ex-Bain, Stanford, Cambridge.
Nico Barawid
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founded and was CEO at Casai, LatAm’s largest short-term rental operator, backed by a16z. Was Head of International Business at Nova Credit. Ex-BCG, Oxford, Yale.
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