Summary
Jonathan Tan is an engineering manager with 10 years of product-focused, full-stack experience building high-performance APIs and services for fast-growing startups. He has progressed from first backend hire to technical lead and now leads engineering at Tilt (formerly Empower), where he’s been instrumental in transforming a budgeting app into a challenger bank and modernizing its stack (.NET Core), CI/CD, and cloud operations. He combines hands-on backend architecture (Go, Rails, .NET) with operational ownership—managing Azure deployments, migration projects, and integrations that improve unit economics and reliability. Comfortable shipping under tight timelines, Jonathan also brings cross-functional experience in frontend performance work, developer productivity improvements, and customer-facing engineering from roles at UpGuard and earlier startups. His background includes an exchange at Stanford and national service leadership in Singapore, underscoring a disciplined, systems-minded approach to building scalable financial products.
10 years of coding experience