17h ago

Principal Backend Engineer

Colombia

$210k-$290k / yearest.

full-timelead Remote

🛠 Tech Stack

+6

💼 About This Role

You'll design and build the backend systems that power Jeeves's financial platform, working across payments, cards, spend management, and compliance infrastructure. Your core impact will be scaling reliable services that serve businesses across 20+ countries. You'll also integrate AI-powered features into production backend systems using LLMs.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Design and build scalable backend services for financial transactions
  • Develop and maintain RESTful and GraphQL APIs
  • Integrate LLM API calls into backend product features
  • Participate in on-call rotation and incident response

📋 Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience
  • Proficiency in Go, Python, or Node.js/TypeScript
  • Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization

✨ Nice to Have

  • Experience in fintech, financial services, or regulated industry
  • Prior experience at a startup or high-growth scale-up
  • Fluency in both Spanish and Portuguese

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Call· 30 min
  2. 2Technical Screen· 60 min
  3. 3On-site Interviews· 4 hours

🚩 Heads Up

  • Role title 'Principal' requires lead experience but requirements state 5+ years which may be mid-level
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