Backend Engineer Senior - Acquisition
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 is to become the largest inclusion bank in LATAM by 2030.
About your role
As a Senior Backend Engineer, your primary objective extends beyond optimizing the performance and reliability of our Acquisition platform. In this pivotal role, you'll play a crucial part in both enhancing existing functionalities and developing innovative new features aimed at improving client acquisition. Collaborate seamlessly with a passionate team dedicated to problem-solving, fostering continuous learning, and delivering outstanding solutions.
Aligned with the Acquisition Team's mission of maximizing customer acquisition, your role directly influences the reliability, security, and scalability of our platform. Take the lead in spearheading projects crucial to shaping our business success. These initiatives facilitate enhanced customer experiences across diverse funnel touchpoints through communication experiments and rapid updates.
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
What You Bring to the Team
- 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
- Product mindset. You are able to identify valuable insights from the customer interactions your team is having and transform them into actionable, product-driven solutions.
- Highly empathetic. You care deeply about the users and strive for providing them the best, memorable and humane experience possible.
- High standards. You expect your personal performance and your team’s performance to be nothing short