Senior Backend Engineer (Banking Core)

About Baubap

We are a fast-growing, Mexican fintech startup with the mission to become the bridge to people’s financial freedom through technology.

We are providing microloans to people in financial need through a fast and efficient process, always treating them with the respect and dignity they deserve.

Our long-term vision is be the most inclusive digital bank in LATAM with more than 2.5 million clients.

*We require that the candidate is fluent in Spanish and currently resides in the LATAM region, as it's important be willing to work under the Mexican Central Time Zone.

 About you

🚀 As a Backend Engineer focused on core systems, your primary goal is to ensure optimal performance, stability and reliability within our products backend. Your role significantly contributes to streamlining operations and product development. Collaborate seamlessly with a passionate team dedicated to problem-solving and continuous improvement. Aligned with our product goals, your pivotal role directly impacts the reliability, security, and scalability of our system. Spearhead crucial projects aimed at optimizing functionality, playing a key role in achieving our OKRs. These initiatives aim to enhance user experiences and streamline processes through effective communication experiments and swift updates.

As Backend Engineer, these are the challenges that you will help us for solving

• Collaborate to designing and implementing backend system architecture, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and efficiency.
• Enhance backend performance through code and architecture optimizations.
• Integrating different systems and services, including third-party products and microservices
• Creating and maintaining robust and efficient APIs for server-client and event-driven communication
• Implementing security practices to protect against vulnerabilities and cyber attacks
• Diagnose and solve complex problems at fast growing and scaled volume of transactions in the product’s backend.

 Day to day

• Work closely with the frontend team, product managers, and designers to define feature specifications and build the next generation of our products.
• Participate in all phases of the development cycle – concept, design, development, testing, and release.
• Optimize products for maximum speed, scalability, and reliability.
• Ensure all systems are designed and coded for security, privacy, and adherence to SOLID principles.
• Proactively identify and resolve software inefficiencies and potential issues.
• Contribute to the entire software development lifecycle, including design, development, documentation, testing, and operations.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the rest of the product team.
• Regularly review and refine our backend engineering practices, ensuring high-quality software construction in accordance with SOLID principles.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend development.
• Deep understanding and practical experience in applying SOLID principles.
• Strong experience with data storage technologies such as MySQL and caching databases.
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Strong understanding of API design and RESTful principles, event-driven communications and micro-services architectures
• Excellent understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
• Strong problem-solving abilities and excellent communication skills.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, Unit testing, Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD) practices.
• Great communication skills, and ability to explain how software is working to a non-technical audience.

🚀 Nice to have

• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.
• Experience in a high-growth fintech environment or startup.
• Experience with referral programs.
• Experience in leading technical projects or teams.
• Experience with performance tuning and system load testing.
• Proficiency in using PHP and Python for backend development.
• Experience in creating containers and managing micro-services.
• Knowledge in Web Scraping Techniques.
• Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) practices

What is our way of working?

• We aim to be as product centric as possible, which means we always prioritise:
• Listening to our customers (whether internal or external), mainly qualitatively and secondary quantitatively
• Focusing on real problems our clients face
• Strong focus on customer experience
• Assuring that every product adds value to both, our business and our customers
• Falling in love with the problem instead of the solution
• Quick validation and learning
• Strong collaboration within your team and other teams
• Small, progressive, incremental delivery, innovation comes from iterations not from scratch.