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Staff Backend Engineer | JVM
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About this role
Role overview
Set backend technical direction as a staff-level individual contributor, influencing architecture and engineering practices across multiple teams. The role focuses on reliable, secure, and scalable financial product services, including credit, payments, onboarding, repayments, and marketplace flows, while helping teams deliver measurable business improvements.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product, Risk, and Growth to improve high-volume flows, reducing delays, failed transactions, and manual work. - Own platform health across reliability, scale, performance, security, operating cost, and ease of operation. - Develop shared service foundations, libraries, messaging conventions, and delivery practices with platform specialists and product squads. - Establish service-level objectives and error budgets, lead root-cause analysis for major incidents, and drive lasting fixes. - Make security and quality expectations part of delivery pipelines, including access controls, data protection, scanning, and key-flow tests. - Write and guide adoption of technical proposals covering service boundaries, data ownership, events, consistency, idempotency, testing, and security; mentor senior engineers and support engineering standards.
Requirements
- Experience owning high-volume payment, credit decisioning, ledger, or onboarding systems in financial services or a marketplace. - Understanding of regulated financial systems, including idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, compliance, and trust. - A track record of mentoring engineers and shaping hiring, review practices, or engineering communities.
Nice to have
Knowledge of backend integrations such as API gateways, GraphQL or BFF layers, payment processors, credit bureaus, and end-to-end authentication flows is an advantage.
Benefits and work setup
The description cites salary, equity, and additional benefits without specifying amounts or terms. It also emphasizes opportunities to influence company technology and direction and to work on financial services intended to broaden access in Colombia.