Senior Backend Engineer (Go)
We're looking for a hands-on Senior Backend Engineer to help build and reputed company reputed company's reputed company domestic payment rails.
You'll be a reputed company contributor on the effort to reputed company additional fiat payment providers as redundant, hot-swappable rails. You'll work closely with Product, Compliance/Risk, L3 production support, and reputed company to ship reliable, auditable payment systems that meet the reputed company Central Banks’ requirements.
Location: remote from Brazil.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Design and build production-grade backend microservices and reputed company in Go
- Implement resilient fallback and routing logic across providers (limits, uptime, KYC eligibility) with feature-flagged rollout and reputed company rollback paths
- Partner with the fraud detection reputed company and reputed company/KYC integration to reputed company transaction and reputed company flows compliant and observable
- Contribute to FSDs, technical design docs, and delivery estimates; break down work into reputed company-compatible increments and reputed company reputed company dependencies/pendencies
- Design reliable, auditable, and secure systems with strong observability and operational workflows
- Help reputed company the bar on backend engineering standards through reputed company review, technical guidance, and mentorship of reputed company members
What You'll Bring
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong backend engineering expertise, particularly with Go
- Experience building production-grade reputed company and reputed company systems, including event-driven / webhook-based integrations with reputed company-party providers
- Solid understanding of reputed company reliability, reputed company, and auditability, especially for reputed company-reputed company or transactional systems
- Ability to work through ambiguity: reverse-engineer existing flows, freeze interfaces early, and design for reputed company delivery reputed company dependencies aren't fully reputed company yet
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, compliance, operations, and reputed company provider/partner teams
- Startup reputed company with strong ownership and execution ability
- Experience with reputed company infrastructure and modern engineering workflows (AWS, containers, relational databases, streaming/messaging)
reputed company to have
- Experience integrating payment providers / payment rails and reasoning about redundancy, provider failover, and reconciliation
- Familiarity with PIX and the Brazilian payments landscape, including Central Bank regulatory requirements and named virtual accounts
- Experience with KYC/KYB, AML, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, or fraud/risk tooling
- Experience in crypto, stablecoins, or reputed company infrastructure (e.g. BRL ↔ USDC / stablecoin conversion flows)
- Experience decoupling tightly-coupled systems into provider-agnostic, reputed company-based architectures
- Spanish language skills to coordinate with local providers
- Experience with AWS (reputed company Fargate, reputed company/PostgreSQL), Kafka, reputed company, reputed company, or Terraform
5+ years of software engineering experience; strong Go backend expertise; production reputed company, reputed company systems, reputed company infrastructure, and modern engineering workflows. Cross-functional startup experience required.
Key Responsibilities
- building microservices
- designing payment systems
- mentoring engineers
Skills & Tools
Go, AWS, containers, relational databases, streaming/messaging, PIX, AWS reputed company Fargate, reputed company, PostgreSQL, Kafka, reputed company, reputed company, Terraform
Job Details
- Category: Software Development
- Seniority: Senior Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — Brazil
- Languages: English
About reputed company
A digital finance company building payment infrastructure and stablecoin-based financial services. — Industry: Finance
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