Staff Software Engineer - Payments

The Staff Engineer is responsible for leading our technical foundation, initially collaborating with the Money - Payments teams to drive innovation, with the opportunity to work with other teams as well, taking on a mentoring role, designing scalable systems, and influencing cross-functional initiatives, in a hands-on position where they will make key technical decisions and build critical services.

Responsibilities

• Solve Critical Problems: Identify, prioritize, and solve technical challenges impacting growth.
• Lead and Collaborate: Architect new solutions, Implement newer patterns/framework that other candidates can use and implement, Identify potential systemwide solutions, guide teams, ensuring solutions meet business goals and technical standards.
• Mentor & Develop: Foster a culture of learning, guiding junior engineers.
• Innovate & Improve: Drive continuous improvement in our platform and processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience as Software Engineer, in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong expertise in backend development with proficiency in Python; as well both relational and NoSQL databases.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, system design principles.
• A can-do attitude and creative, flexible problem solving abilities, and the ability to think critically in ambiguous situations.
• Being a team player, that includes review, pair programming, collaboration in one task, mentoring or being mentored.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Desirable experience with mobile technologies or mobile payment systems with the fraud and identity aspects of fintech, as well in building and maintaining large-scale systems used by millions of users.

Benefits

• 100% Company-funded Health and dental and vision discount plan for employees and immediate family members.
• Life insurance.
• Phone finance, Headphone, home office equipment and wellness perks.
• 30 days of Christmas bonus
• 20 days paid Vacation
• 50% Vacation premium
• 13% Saving funds
• $2,000 MXN monthly grocery coupons
• $2,000 USD annual Co-working Travel perk
• $2,000 USD annual Professional Development perk
• Catered lunches