Lead Backend Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Mexico.

📋 Description

• Expand our Core Services Ecosystem: You will contribute to the design and construction of the backend systems that our Customers and internal teams utilize daily.

• Address Challenges: Your primary duty as an Engineer is to solve problems. You have various tools at your disposal, including Development, communication, and new processes.

• Technical Responsibilities: Write (or learn to write) sustainable, testable, high-quality, and high-performance code, and be open to mentorship in mastering these skills.

• Collaboration: Take initiative, ask questions, and engage in discussions regarding testing and code quality.

• Embrace DevOps Practices: Enhance our processes, feedback mechanisms, systems, culture, and workflows.

• Promote a Culture of Monitoring and Observability: Be willing to learn how to utilize operational data to assist your team in improving the stability and performance of our systems.

• Continuous Learning and Growth: Be receptive to learning how to enhance your skills, embrace feedback, and aid others in developing their own talents.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience: A minimum of 4 years in developing integration software systems.

• Team and Project Experience: Proven experience working on teams and projects that have engaged with E-commerce APIs and distributed systems.

• Code Quality: You produce code that is easily readable, testable, and maintainable.

• Familiarity with Technology Stack: Experience with some or all of our technology stack, including Backend (Java) with some Python and Go, AWS tools (ECS, Lambdas), CI/CD (Pulumi, Jenkins), and Observability (DataDog).

• Documentation Skills: Good practices in technical documentation and knowledge sharing.

• Process Understanding: Familiarity with the principle of people over process (Agile) while recognizing that effective processes lead to improved outcomes (DevOps).

• Workflow Hygiene: Awareness of the significance of well-defined user stories/tasks and estimation.

• Ambiguity Management: Ability to navigate the uncertainty of a rapidly growing company by adapting to shifting priorities and seeking assistance when guidance is scarce and information is incomplete.

• Strong Communication Skills: Value the importance of sharing and collaborating with peers, both verbally and in writing (in Spanish, with the capability to communicate with vendors or teammates in English as necessary).

• Team Collaboration: You thrive in team projects involving multiple stakeholders and contributors, and are comfortable participating in technical projects for your team.

• Growth Mindset: You are eager for mentorship to help you reach your full potential.

• Fintech Experience: Prior experience in Fintechs with Backend/API teams.

• Backend Patterns: Comfortable discussing and working with common backend patterns.

• Familiarity with DevOps: Knowledge of the State of DevOps.

• Incident Response: Experience with or knowledge of On-call and Incident Response processes.

• Value Delivery: You prefer regular, incremental delivery of value over striving for perfection.

• Feedback and Improvement: You appreciate small units of work, PR comments, and constructive feedback.

• System Efficiency: You are enthusiastic about ensuring that all our systems—software and human—operate smoothly.

• Commitment to Learning: You aim for continuous learning and improvement for yourself and your team.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Flexible work arrangements.