Senior BackEnd Engineer - Paga y Gana
Baubap, Mexico
Job Description
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 to become the largest inclusion bank in LATAM by 2030.
About your role
As a Senior Backend Engineer where you'll play a pivotal role in driving value creation and contributing significantly to our innovative "Paga y Gana" Product. This program lets users use rewards from the "Invita y Gana" referral program for mobile top-ups. Soon, it'll also cover paying for utilities like water, electricity, and gas. You'll collaborate closely with a team of passionate individuals who thrive on problem-solving.
Your contributions will directly impact the reliability, security, and scalability of our product, ensuring its seamless performance. You'll have the opportunity to spearhead projects that directly shape the success of our business and enhance the experience of our valued customers.
Outcomes
- 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 systems and microservices
- Creating and maintaining robust and efficient APIs for server-client communication
- Implementing security measures to protect against vulnerabilities and cyber attacks
- Diagnose and solve complex problems in the backend
- Guiding and mentoring less experienced developers, contributing to the team's growth
Responsibilities
- 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 applications 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 junior engineers.
- Regularly review and refine our backend engineering practices, ensuring high-quality software construction in accordance with SOLID principles.
Requirements
- 7+ 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.
- 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.
Desirable Skills
- Experience in implementing security and data protection measures.
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.
- Experience in a high-growth tech environment or startup.
- 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 working with Docker for creating containers and managing microservices.
- Strong familiarity with Linux environment, and experience in Linux server management and scripting.
Your skills
- Clear and transparent communication.You are able to able to express your thoughts clearly, concisely and to the point. You can openly discuss any blockers you have, and constructively point out areas for improvement.
- Relentlessly resourceful at execution and problem solving.You make things happen, no matter what. You are disciplined, organized and systematically follow through on your work. Instead of getting stuck thinking "well, this doesn't work", you look for creative / innovative / outside-of-the-box solutions to fix the issue and move on.
- Sense of urgency.You operate with a constant sense of urgen