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Teak

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2016

☁️ SaaS

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

SaaS • Fintech • B2B

Teak is a B2B company offering embeddable SaaS products—Smart Refunds and Friendly Insurance—that help experience and booking platforms convert refunds into revenue, manage claims and payouts, and transfer refund risk to insurance partners. Teak provides a lightweight API with enterprise-grade security and compliance (PCI, SOC 2), U. S. and Canadian licensing, customer support for refunds and payouts, and data-driven optimization to increase ancillary revenue and reduce chargebacks.

📋 Description

• Contribute to the design of scalable, resilient backend systems and microservices. • Evaluate architectural trade-offs, help define service boundaries, and bring strong architectural instincts that elevate team discussions and code reviews. • Build and operate cloud-native systems on AWS. Work across services like ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, Lambda, and CloudWatch to build reliable, scalable, and observable infrastructure. • Apply performance expertise across the stack — from database query plans and indexing strategies to caching layers and async processing pipelines. • Design and develop APIs, microservices, and backend services that power applications used by millions of users, processing hundreds of millions of events each day. • Devise new approaches to solve problems, refactor, and optimize services to continuously improve the Teak platform. • Participate in code reviews with a focus on architectural principles and performance best practices, and write comprehensive automated tests to ensure system reliability. • Document architectural decisions, system design, and performance findings to support team knowledge sharing and long-term maintainability. • Take part in sprint planning, estimation, retrospectives, and daily standups as part of our Agile workflow. • Participate in on-call rotation and troubleshoot production issues as they arise, applying systematic root-cause analysis. • Leverage AI coding tools, agentic workflows, and MCP servers to accelerate development, improve code quality, and explore automation opportunities across the stack.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent practical experience. • 5+ years of professional Python development experience. • 3+ years building production applications with Django or similar CMS frameworks. • Demonstrated experience contributing to the design and architecture of high-volume, distributed backend systems. • Hands-on experience building and operating production systems on AWS (ECS, RDS, SQS, CloudWatch, or similar services). • Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, including query optimization, indexing strategies, and performance tuning at scale. • Hands-on experience with caching strategies (Redis, Memcached) and asynchronous task processing. • Track record of diagnosing and resolving complex performance bottlenecks in production environments. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain architectural decisions and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully Remote Working Environment • Competitive Salary and Equity Opportunities • Unlimited Paid Time-off • Two paid week-long office closures per year: Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day, and the Week of Fourth of July • Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits • Annual Bonus Program • 401k Matching • $100/month for Event Ticket Purchase • Twice annual company retreats in fantastic locations such as San Diego, Napa, Denver, Phoenix and Seattle