Portugal onlyOur client is the fastest-growing earned wage access (EWA) fintech in the U.S., serving 3.5 million employees and backed by top investors like QED and Prosus. They’ve raised nearly $400M in funding—including the largest Series A in fintech history—and just closed a successful Series B to fuel their next stage of hypergrowth.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer for the EMEA team. This position is fully remote within Europe. The Backend Software Engineer will be responsible for managing various areas of a world-class backend platform, including API integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners. The ideal candidate is excited to tackle tough technical challenges and looking for opportunities to contribute to their strategic thinking.
Key Responsibilities:
- Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions, recommend alternative approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious targets
- Design and implement reliable systems and applications in the context of a fully distributed micro-services architecture
- Build and maintain integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners
- Design and implement highly available RESTful APIs supporting user-facing web and mobile applications
- Focus on creating reusable code and libraries that can be shared across teams, fostering collaboration and ensuring scalability for future projects.
- Enforce observability best practices, leveraging tools like logging, metrics and alerting systems
- Create and maintain detailed technical documentation for all solutions, including architecture designs, APIs, workflows, and system configurations.
- Continuously monitor systems and applications for opportunities to maximize performance and scalability
- Effective cross-team communication and collaboration to align priorities, clarify requirements, identify dependencies, and ensure seamless coordination throughout the software development lifecycle.
Required Qualifications:
- Fluent English, including strong verbal and written skills.
- 5+ years of Software Development experience
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
- Proficient knowledge of back-end programming languages such as Go / Golang, Java, Python and C++
- Strong expertise in designing and developing RESTful APIs
- Experience with both SQL and NoSQL database technologies and strong understanding of database concepts and internals, including data model design and optimization principles
- Experience at building reliable and scalable user-facing applications
- Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable distributed systems and microservices architectures, with a strong ability to meet performance and scalability requirements
- Excellent collaboration skills, with the capacity to work effectively with cross-functional teams, present ideas, and communicate technical concepts clearly
- Keep up to date with technologies - AWS/Azure/GCP, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS among others
- Strong ability to take ownership of projects, driving initiatives from concept to completion with minimal supervision, while proactively identifying challenges and solutions.
- Experience working with agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, to deliver high-quality results in iterative cycles
- Proficiency in message queuing systems such as Kafka(preferred)/RabbitMQ/Flink.
- Effective release management experience for ensuring zero downtime and experience with CI/CD frameworks such as Gitlab CI and Github actions.
United States
DE and PT only