Sr. Backend Engineer (Remote)
Baubap, Mexico

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.

About your role

Deliver world-class functionalities to all of our users through developing business-aligned software (dashboards, web apps and api) to improve our customers and employees experience.

Objectives

• Develop robust and high scalable software

Day to Day

• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team and under pressure.
• Verifiable experience with productive applications.
• Analyze, create and optimize MySQL queries.
• Consume and develop REST services.
• Use git and git-flow version control.
• Experience with JIRA and Scrum methodology
• Critical thinking and high analytical skills

Requirements

What You Bring to the Team

• 7+ years developing back-end PHP applications.
• Good understanding of software algorithms, tools, and frameworks.
• Self-starter, and intellectual curiosity.
• Great communication skills, ability to explain how software is working to a non-technical audience.

Required Skills

• PHP
• MySQL
• Linux
• Ubuntu
• Amazon Web Services
• Apache
• Nginx
• Bash

Desirable Skills

• Python
• Docker

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 of excellent.
• Leadership skills. You can easily identify areas for improvement in the people you are guiding, can direct them on the right path to improve their skills and build highly performing teams.
• Ownership. You are able to work without constant direction. You are the 'owner' of our own work and have the autonomy and freedom to execute it.
• Proactivity. You act without being told what to do and bring new ideas to the team. You thrive working working in a lean and agile environment with hands on approach.
• Curiosity and creativity. You’re innovative, extremely creative and constantly looking for ways to tweak and optimise the way we do things.
• Communication. You are an excellent communicator and engage with other team members to share ideas and discuss topics. You are able to give constructive feedback and lead productive discussions.

Benefits

• Being part of a multinational, highly driven team of professionals,
• Flexible and remote working environment,
• High level of ownership and independence
• 20 vacations days / year + bonus
• 1 month Christmas bonus
• Health amp; Life insurance
• Vales de despensa $2700 mxn / month
• Coworking contribution
• Home office set-up budget
• Unlimited budget for Kindle books
• Competitive salar

Job Rewards and Benefits