Analytics Engineer, Fraud

Our Mission
Reduce inequity by helping immigrants move money home, and become the leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets.

The Team
-> Founded by Harvard grads / 3rd-time founders --- also founded Segovia (successful exit) and GiveDirectly (>300M revenue, fastest-growing NGO).
-> Top performers from top and varied organizations (e.g., Bain, Bolt, Google, McKinsey, SafeBoda, Uber, Zipline) --- we like moving fast, and we hire people that do as well.
-> Driven by mission, guided by values (see below) – in deed, not just word.
-> Team as global as the mission, >30 languages from 25 countries (i.e., if you’re interested in learning to make Chicken Moambe, we’re the place).

About Us
Taptap Send is backed by top VCs (Spark, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital, etc.), rapidly growing and a great place for those looking for both impact and a fast-paced tech startup environment.  Read more about the journey in Reid Hoffman’s words or TechCrunch article

Launched in 2019, Taptap is tapping into a transformative shift in global finance: from banks to phones. While this has affected wealthier countries as well, it has been nothing short of a revolution for the emerging markets where the overwhelming majority of population had been unable to access digital finance previously.  Taptap Send allows immigrants to send money home instantly and with no fee*, saving money in the process. With a formal market size of >700B alone, we’ve got a lot more saving to do for our users. Our mission is to reduce inequity by helping immigrants move money home, and become the leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets. And that’s just the beginning...

*We charge fees for transfers on fixed exchange rate corridors (e.g., XOF, XAF).

Our Investors
Spark Capital, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital (Jim Breyer), Unbound (Shravin Mittal), Wamda (Fadi Ghandour), Firstminute Capital, Slow Ventures (Sam Lessin), Helios Partners (Souleymane Ba), Crossbeam Ventures (Ali Hamed), Nikesh Arora, Samih Toukan, and many other context-specific angels

The Role

We are looking for an insightful, proactive Analytics Engineer to help us in our next phase of growth. If you’re excited about building scalable analytics systems in dbt, generating business-critical insights, pursuing complex problems and influencing our strategy as we scale, then this is the role for you!

No challenge is too small -- or too large! You’ll start off focused on the Fraud domain, reporting to our Analytics Lead, and with significant exposure to our Head of Fraud and teams across the company, including Product, Operations and Data Engineering.

Location: London or New York.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a fraud analytics framework that monitors, triages, and alerts on suspicious activity

• Build scalable dbt models that support ever-evolving fraud challenges

• Deliver a real-time internal fraud risk model, which covers weighted signals and outputs a risk score/band

• Lead the redesign of dashboards to deliver actionable insights for fraud prevention and product development

• Act as the Fraud Data subject-matter expert, proactively investigating and resolving such issues across the business

• Contribute to our cross-functional analytics community – e.g. by peer reviewing code or sharing knowledge at our weekly meetups, or by solving business problems from beyond the Fraud

You have

• 5+ years working in an analytical role at a financial institution or tech startup

• Strong SQL skills, and able to handle large, complex data structures from multiple sources

• Experience scaling performant and reliable analytics systems – strong preference for dbt experience; proficiency with Python or R a plus

• Can build business intelligence dashboards with tools such as Looker or Mode

• Able to work at pace with stakeholders

• Combines an eye for detail, with a pragmatic attitude to getting things done, and a ‘no task too small’ mentality

• The ability to work independently and balance priorities

• The right to work in either London or New York

Taptap Values 

Impact first

Team next

Accept reality

Propose solutions

Win with grit

Be proactively candid, with yourself and others

Love the particular

Own it

Create positive energy

Maybe, even have fun

Taptap Send is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, experience and business need. We strongly encourage applications who are members of underrepresented communities to apply.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. Any information you provide us in this respect will only be used to accommodate your requirements.

Note: we recognize imposter syndrome is real - any candidate that does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.