About this role
Job title: Senior Software Engineer (LatAm Only)
About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer (IC3) to design highly scalable APIs, services, and systems across R2; own product and solution architecture; promote a culture of learning; and help teammates grow into excellent engineers. This is a LatAm-focused, remote contractor role embedded in a fast-growing fintech.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across R2
- Own the product and solution architecture
- Ensure best practices and uptime
- Contribute to company-wide standards and reliability
- Ensure delivery of mission-critical systems with tight deadlines
- Increase the quality of the delivered code, towards a zero-bug policy
- Research and invest in new tooling to improve services
- Think about security throughout everything you do
- Promote a culture that fosters learning, growth, risk-taking, and accountability
- Work with other teams to figure out how to build tools to make them more productive
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of engineering experience building API-driven services, with an appetite to code on a daily basis
- Experience with distributed architecture patterns, in particular microservices
- Experience programming in either Go, Python, Java, or Rust
- Experience in designing and implementing robust data models for production using relational databases (PostgreSQL, etc.) and/or NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc)
- Experience in containers (Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes)
- Experience in CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab CI, Spinnaker, Jenkins, GoCD, Concourse, etc.)
- Experience designing and implementing Event-Driven architectures
- Working experience with gRPC, Service Meshes (Istio, Linkerd, etc), API Gateways
- Familiar with UI technologies such as React, GraphQL, Server-side rendering, etc.
- Experience building integrations with 3rd-party APIs/services is a big plus
Compensation & Benefits
- The chance to join a high-impact, mission-driven fintech with regional scale
- Cross-functional collaboration with exceptional teams across Latin America
- Equipment provided by R2
- Training budget for professional development
- Career growth within R2