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$130,000.00 / yr - $180,000.00 / yr
Senior Software (Backend) Engineer – Fintech Infrastructure & Payments
📍 Remote – Based in LATAM / EST / Europe 💼 Full-Time | 💵 Competitive Salary + Equity Options | 🧠 5+ Years Experience | 🧮 Transaction Systems & API Design
Role Overview
A fast-growing cross-border payments platform is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build the core systems powering global financial transactions. You’ll work with Node.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL to deliver scalable APIs that handle high-volume, high-integrity operations. This is a hands-on role for engineers who thrive in product-driven environments and want to shape infrastructure that moves money across continents.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and operate backend services using Node.js / TypeScript and PostgreSQL
- Design APIs for financial transactions with idempotency, reliability, and developer-friendly integration
- Architect solutions for payments, ledgering, and reconciliation
- Lead feature delivery from design to deployment
- Collaborate with product, design, and infrastructure teams to align technical decisions with business goals
- Review code, mentor peers, and raise the engineering bar
- Investigate and resolve production issues with a focus on root cause prevention
How You’ll Work
Treat APIs and services as products—balancing robustness with developer experiencePrioritize simplicity, clarity, and scalability in architectureKeep security and compliance central to all decisionsDocument designs, runbooks, and decision records for knowledge sharingEngage openly in design reviews, code reviews, and incident postmortemsTech Stack
Node.js / TypeScriptNestJS or similar backend frameworksPostgreSQL + caching / queueingREST APIsGitLab (CI / CD)Docker, Kubernetes, AWSMonitoring tools (e.g., Datadog)Ideal Candidate
5+ years of backend engineering experienceStrong expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, and relational databasesProven experience building APIs for financial or transactional systemsUnderstanding of payments, fintech, or transaction-heavy domainsFamiliarity with distributed systems concepts (idempotency, concurrency, data integrity)Excellent communicator and cross-functional collaboratorBonus Skills
Blockchain development (smart contracts, wallets, tokenization)Infrastructure knowledge : Kubernetes, AWS, TerraformExperience with event-driven architectures and real-time systemsCompensation & Benefits
Competitive salaryEquity / options packageHealth stipendOffice stipend
Laptop providedUnlimited leave policyInterview Process
Hiring manager interviewTake-home technical testTechnical interviewSkills : payments,fintech,postgresql,typescript,backend development,apis,node.js,software engineering
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