At Aplazo, our mission is to empower financial access, opportunity and freedom, by connecting people and businesses in Latin America, through fair, simple, and transparent financial solutions, and we are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer - RAC (Risk and Credit) to help us get there.

Key responsibilities

• Scale our RAC Ecosystem: You will help architect and build the backend systems that our Merchants (Customers) and internal teams (Fraud) interact with every day. As we grow, these systems will need to be stable, fast, and scalable. You will need to set objectives and be accountable for completing them.
• Solve Problems: This is first and foremost your responsibility as an Engineer. You have many tools at your disposal (Development, communication, new process). Figure out what needs to be done to solve RAC problems, verify, and execute.
• Technical work: Write (and/or learn) plenty of sustainable, testable, high-quality, high-performance code (and be willing to be mentored on how to do the same).
• Team work: Be proactive, ask, and participate in discussions on topics such as testing, and code quality. Don’t be afraid to approach others with technical questions/problems.
• Practice the ways of Devops - Improving our processes, feedback, systems, culture, and workflows in order to empower autonomous technical teams to deliver the greatest value is essential to our mission.
• Foster a culture of observability and monitoring: Be open to learning how to use operational data to help your team improve the stability and performance of our systems. Help to foster a culture of measuring, validating, and acting upon data.
• Learn and Evolve: Be open to learning how to scale yourself, taking feedback, and also help others to scale their own talents.

Requirements

Must have

• Years of experience: 4+ years in developing integration software systems.
• Technical skills:
  • Experience working on teams and projects that have delta with CRM
  • You write code that’s easily readable, testable, and maintainable
  • You have worked with some/all of our technology stack: Backend (Java) (w/ some Python and Go mixed in AWS tools (ECS, Lambdas), Ci/CD(Pulumi, Jenkins), Observability (DataDog)
  • Good habits with technical documentation and knowledge sharing
• Soft skills:
  • You have heard of people over process (Agile), but understand that good process leads to better work (Devops). You understand that workflow hygiene (well defined user-stories/tasks and estimation) is important.
  • You are good at managing the ambiguity of a rapidly-growing company: adjusting to changing priorities, and asking for help when guidance is limited and information is incomplete.
  • Excellent communication skills: Understand the importance of sharing and collaborating with peers both verbally and in writing (in Spanish, with ability to also communicate with vendors or teammates in English as necessary)
  • You work well on team projects with multiple stakeholders, contributors, and are comfortable contributing to technical projects for your team.
  • You have a growth mindset and seek mentorship to be your best self.