Data at Tuza

Who we are

Thanks for investing the time to consider joining Tuza.

‍When joining a company at the early stages of it's growth story there's often more than first meets the eye. This is our opportunity to help you to understand why your next role should be with us.

At Tuza, we've raised $7m from leading investors (Northzone, Connect Ventures) to build the exchange for payments.

Our pricing and onboarding technology enables the world's largest banks to generate real-time rates for payments by pricing risk instantly, whilst helping thousands of small businesses find the best rates on the market.

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Tuza today...

• Comparison Engine as our Wedge Product
  
  Our initial go-to-market product is a comparison engine, which helps small businesses find the best rates for card processing. This has enabled us to obsessively iterate and build a product loved by our small business customers.
  
  
• The Distribution Rail for Acquirers
  
  You may not know this, but we’re replacing legacy payment field sales with intelligent, digital acquisition channels powered by our intelligent pricing and onboarding technology. It converts better, costs less, prices more fairly, and delivers a better user experience to small businesses.

Tuza tomorrow...

• The User Experience Layer for Business Finance
  
  Tuza will be the central interface through which small businesses discover, onboard, and manage financial services, starting with payments, expanding into the whole business finance stack.
  
  
• A Unified Data Infrastructure
  
  We will build an open-standard data platform to access Tuza’s knowledge graph, combining behavioural data with live transaction data to tell the most accurate story of a business’s life cycle.
  

• The App Store Moment for Business Finance
  
  Tuza will become the platform on top of which financial service providers will build and launch novel products. We will become to default go-to-market due to our cross-market data layer.

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Our team

Our data team are tasked with designing, building and owning our data stack. They're also be responsible for applying their expertise in quantitative analysis to understand how our users behave. Their insights feed into data products as well as into our wider product strategy.

They do things like:

• Play with transaction data to recognise tendency, temporal or spatial patterns. 
• Build risk insights by combining onboarding data with in-life behaviour to detect anomalies and automate interventions.
• Design dynamic pricing models that personalise payment pricing based on business usage, risk, and segment.
• Launch product recommendation logic that serves merchants contextual bundles at the right moment in their lifecycle.
• Benchmark provider performance to show which of our partners are outperforming across time to board, churn, and margin.
• Create intelligent and personalised user experiences based on customer context to increase business-product fit and reduce time to conversion.

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The tech

Our data stack is up to you, you'll be responsible for building the right architecture for our stage and maturing it as we grow (as long as it sits on top of  AWS).

Our platform stack includes React, TypeScript, GraphQL, REST, Express, Relay, Prisma, Redis, Postgres, AWS, Styled Components and Storybook.

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You're a great fit if...

• You have a solid knowledge of data science.
• You work end-to-end - you can design, engineer and maintain our data stack.
• You’ve had exposure to a previous high-performance environment - this may be another startup backed by tier 1 investors, but it could just as easily be a competitive hobby.
• You know what good engineering practices look like - we need you to work with our engineering team to integrate your insights into our products.
• You find the extensive breadth and ambiguous nature of this role inspiring.

You're a bad fit if...

• You lack genuine interest in data - we want you to be obsessed.
• You’re unopinionated on what you work on - we want you to care.
• You’re not interested in the commercial context or wider business strategy.
  
  

Our ways of working

At Tuza, we've founded our working principles with influences from BaseCamp’s product development framework, Shape Up, Matt Lerner's Growth Levers and How to Find Them and Melissa Perri's Escaping The Build Trap.

The crux is that we like to focus on the ‘why’. Why are we building this product, or feature, and what outcome are we hoping for? We value focusing on our customers, output over input, and experiment more than we optimise.

We outline how we work in more detail here. This isn't static: we're constantly aiming to improve based on team feedback.

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What's in it for you

• A competitive salary with generous equity.
• A hybrid working approach. We're based out of our Shoreditch office, with Monday and Thursday as core collaboration days. The remaining days are focus days - based wherever you work best.
• Flexible working hours. Most people arrive between 8 and 10, and leave between 6 and 7.
• Unlimited holiday with a minimum of 24 days.
• Macbook Pro, monitor, mouse and keyboard.
• £350 a year towards taking a break.
• £350 a year towards learning, development or a hobby.
• Team offsites around the world (2024 took us to Morocco and Istanbul).
• Smart and kind teammates - leave your ego at the door.
• The occasional soundbath...

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Our application process

Our aim is to get candidates through the application process from start to finish within 2-weeks of applying, in order to strike the balance of being respectful towards your time, whilst helping us maintain our high expectations.

‍Apply

We love meeting people who care about what they build and why they're building it. Applying takes a few minutes. You know what to do.

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