DevOps Engineer

About TazaPay

TazaPay is a trade management platform for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to conduct cross-border commerce safely. 

It will bring together the best technologies and financial services that are only available to large companies today and make them accessible to SMBs. 

We are trying to  address the unmet needs of millions of exporters and importers who do not have access to the essential tools for doing cross-border trade such as trade protections via escrow, currency hedging, and finance 

Lack of trust is one of the biggest inhibitors for B2B cross-border business. Buyers and sellers tend to work only with known and trusted parties thereby limiting their business opportunities. Our platform will enable access to various services for doing cross-border trade safely - such as counterparty risk assessment, trade assurance, and trade protections via escrow 

Our goal is to enhance trust in the trade process so that SMBs feel confident about doing more business with overseas counterparties

Our platform is cloud-based and easy to use. Our mobile and web apps simplify and digitalize every step of the process. Using our cloud-based platform, the SMBs can do more business with trusted parties in a trusted and convenient manner

As a DevOps Engineer, 

• Work closely with the product development team to improve the performance and reliability of new development

• Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools to orchestrate solutions

• Define, build, and keep true CI/CD culture, tooling, and process

• Develop and architect tools for more productive development and also to improve product availability, scalability, and performance

• Automate the installation and upkeep of build and deploy tools and dependencies

• Define processes, techniques, architectures, and practices to ensure the monitoring, reliability, and performance of products and services

• Design and implement innovations that improve software engineering velocity, infrastructure resiliency, security, and data availability

• Solve live performance and stability issues and prevent their recurrence

• Evaluate new application packages and tools and perform research on best practices

• Provide recommendations for the solutions

• A degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or similar experience.
• Curiosity about how things work.
• A passion for learning and developing new skills.
• Obsession with automating everything and a passion for elegance and simplicity.
• Comfortable with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment.
• Comfortable with collaboration, open communication, and crossing functional borders.
• Ability to jump into situations with few guardrails and improve them.
• Ability and desire to fix things when they break.
• Extensive experience with AWS services.
• Familiarity with at least one programming language, such as Python, Go, or shell scripting.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, etc.
• Infrastructure automation with infrastructure as code tools - CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability stacks like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience with container infrastructures like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with RDBMS/NoSQL administration and management, such as Postgres and MongoDB.
• Experience with microservice architecture.
• Experience with configuration management.
• Excellent understanding of operating system concepts, especially Linux OS.

• Experience working for a start-up is preferred
• Familiarity with AWS data engineering - DMS, Glue, Athena, Redshift, Quicksight
• History of effectively working with and growing geo-distributed partner teams
• AWS Cloud Certifications.
• Basic knowledge of security - OWASP, static code analysis
• Fintech experience (good to have) , security standards and compliance - PCI-DSS, SOC2

Why Join Us

TazaPay is founded by 3 seasoned professionals with extensive experience in payments, e-commerce, technology, cross-border trade, and high-growth technology businesses. The company has just completed the seed round from reputed institutional investors and is now looking to build the team and the product.

This is an amazing opportunity to join a fantastic crew before the rocket ship's launch. It will be a story you will carry with you through your life and have the unique experience of building something ground up and have the satisfaction of seeing your product being used and paid for by thousands of customers.

We believe the world will look very different after this pandemic, as it did after the second world war and the financial crisis of 2008. We foresee a gigantic acceleration toward digitalization. Especially in the B2B space which has lagged behind B2C peers. But the pandemic will change that equation.

We are conscious of the challenges. But the most iconic companies are often founded in times of such upheavals. But we believe our odds are better because of the opportunity to configure ourselves at a very young stage for the new world without the pressure to defend existing revenue streams, head headcount, or pivoting the business model. We are better prepared to seize the opportunities this new world throws at us.