Senior Backend Engineer - Fincore

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be at the core of shaping and scaling the platform that powers our microloan product and its ecosystem. Beyond just coding, you’ll play a key role in driving technical evolution and championing our engineering culture, making a real impact in how we build and grow as a team.

The expected outcomes:

• Collaborate with the backend and product teams to design and implement the platform architecture that supports our products, focusing on scalability, maintainability, and efficiency.
• Improve backend performance through code optimization and architectural enhancements.
• Integrate external financial and compliance systems and services, including third-party products, across a variety of API implementations and service architectures.
• Develop and maintain reliable and efficient APIs for server-client, server-server, and event-based communication.
• Implement best security practices to protect against vulnerabilities and cybersecurity threats.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues related to high-volume transactions in the backend of the product.

The day to day tasks:

• Collaborate in the design and implementation of scalable, maintainable, and efficient backend system architectures, promoting the adoption of microservices.
• Develop and maintain robust and efficient APIs for client-server, server-server, and event-driven communication, ensuring performance under high transaction volumes.
• Optimize backend components to guarantee optimal performance, scalability, and reliability, regularly performing performance tuning and bug fixes.
• Implement best security practices to protect against vulnerabilities and cybersecurity threats.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to improve the codebase.
• Ensure smooth communication and data exchange between different components, facilitating their consumption for various technical and organizational objectives.

Why You should apply:

• You have FinTech or financial industry experience.
• You have 5+ years of experience in backend development with languages such as Python and PHP.
• You have 5+ years of backend development in a high-growth product, scaling systems and solving tough tech challenges.
• You have hands-on experience designing and building microservices architectures, RESTful APIs, and event-driven services.
• You are passionate about clean code—you follow industry best practices to write maintainable, efficient, and scalable solutions.
• You have strong documentation skills—you can create and maintain clear technical docs for system architecture, design, and processes.
• You have a testing mindset—you write and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure service reliability.
• You are a data-driven engineer—you have experience designing and managing scalable data models in relational databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL, ensuring data integrity and accuracy.

 What we can offer:

• Being part of a multinational, highly driven team of professionals.
• Flexible and remote working environment.
• High level of ownership and independence.
• Unlimited vacation days 
• 1 month equivalent of base pay as a Christmas bonus
• Parental leave
• Competitive salary