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Senior Backend Engineer / Lead — Fintech Platform & Financial Core
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About this role
Role overview
Lead backend work on a fintech platform’s financial core, shaping the foundations used by the rest of the product. The scope includes ledgering, safeguarding customer funds, routing payments across settlement rails, and embedding compliance checks into transaction flows. The role reports to the CTO.
Responsibilities
- Design and build a double-entry ledger and the underlying financial data model. - Develop the platform’s approach to safeguarding customer funds. - Build routing logic that selects how payments settle across different rails. - Implement compliance rules that operate within payment flows. - Help establish backend architecture using domain-driven design.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience relevant to financial systems. - Ability to design dependable data models for core platform functionality. - Experience or readiness to work with TypeScript, NestJS, and PostgreSQL. - Familiarity with domain-driven design. - Engineers with Java, Go, or Python fintech experience are also encouraged to apply.
Benefits and work setup
- Full-time, remote role; Spain or Latin America is preferred. - Compensation is competitive for the hire’s location, with early equity.