3 months ago
Bogotá, Colombia or Mexico City, MexicoSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable applications using Django and Vue.js.
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs, microservices, and integrations with internal and external systems.
- Design, optimize, and maintain PostgreSQL databases for performance, scalability, and data integrity.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering teams to deliver software solutions.
- Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, testing, and Agile ceremonies.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code and improve engineering practices.
- Mentor other engineers and support knowledge sharing across the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 7 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer.
- Strong proficiency in software engineering principles, design patterns, and modern development practices.
- Strong experience developing backend applications with Python, scalable services, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Experience with relational databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar SQL databases, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning.
- Experience developing frontend applications with Vue.js and modern JavaScript.
- Experience designing and implementing microservices and service-oriented architectures.
- Experience integrating internal and third-party APIs.
- Proficiency with Git for version control.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with automated testing, test-driven development, code reviews, software documentation, and reviewing other engineers’ work.
- Experience in payments, FinTech, or other high-volume transactional environments is highly desirable.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
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About PayJoy
PayJoy builds smartphone-enabled secured credit for underserved consumers in emerging markets, offering point-of-sale smartphone financing and card/credit products, and licensing its device-locking and machine-learning underwriting technology to retailers and financial partners. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held Public Benefit Corporation operates across multiple countries. Customers use the phone itself as collateral, enabling access to formal credit and structured repayment over time.