Job Description We are the FIS Embedded Finance team, and our mission is to enable developers across all verticals to imagine, create and monetize financial products to profoundly transform the way the entire financial industry consumes services. Today, it's difficult for many businesses to build the financial products they imagine. Whether that's launching a new credit or debit card, a savings account, a lending business, or anything else — there are barriers in the way, that require excessive time and effort. We make it trivially easy for businesses to compliantly offer financial products and innovate on their key differentiators rather than spend all their time building and maintaining financial infrastructure. We are looking for Backend Software Engineers to help us build a brand-new financial technology platform for the future. We look for people who operate like owners, love to learn, have grit, and operate with integrity and empathy. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out — and set you apart. We welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions. **NOTE: This position is based in the greater Seattle/Bellevue, WA area. We plan to bring the team together regularly for design, ideation, and connection-building. GENERAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES Deliver high quality code following the best practices of coding standards, efficiency, readability, maintainability, reliability, well tested. Partner closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to fully understand the feature and product vision and provide engineering feedback. Design elegant API interfaces and domain models to provide consistency across multiple downstream vendor integrations. Build secure, robust, scalable, and performant systems for processing transactions and managing customer data. Set and maintain high standards of technical excellence across the team. Achieve operational excellence by participating in the team on-call rotation and owning production issues from root cause analysis to resolution. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize projects and communicate changes to broader audiences. Estimate project timelines, ensuring that projects you own stay on track and escalating as needed. Mentor junior engineers and help hire new talent to build a stronger team.   QUALIFICATIONS 10+ years of relevant technical experience in software development roles. Bachelor’s degree in computer science or directly related field. Experience leading projects from architectural design to production while setting and maintaining high standards of technical excellence across your team. Strong communication and collaboration skills and a history of working effectively with your team and cross-functional stakeholders. Experience or interest in building FinTech, payment, or banking systems.   PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Experience working with service mesh architectures on major Cloud providers like AWS/Azure/GCP. Experience designing and implementing APIs for third-party developers. Experience integrating third-party vendor solutions into backend systems. Experience with Python (Flask & Django) and Kubernetes. Experience with financial standards like ISO 8583/20022 and ACH/NACHA. What we offer you: At FIS, we hire the best. In return, you receive exceptional benefits, including: Opportunities to innovate in FinTech Tools for personal and professional growth Inclusive and diverse work environment Resources to invest in your community Competitive salary and benefits #Platforms FIS is committed to providing its employees with an exciting career opportunity and competitive compensation. The pay range for this full-time position is $136,190.00 - $228,790.00 and reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for this position based on the posted role, level, and location. Within the range, actual individual starting pay is determined additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Any changes in work location will also impact actual individual starting pay. Please consult with your recruiter about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Privacy Statement FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice. EEOC Statement FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Sourcing Model Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company. #pridepass \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, Recruiter, Finance, Cloud, API, Executive, Junior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $102,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nUS WA SEA Virtual

\nAbout Baubap\nWe are a fast-growing, Mexican fintech startup with the mission to become the bridge to people’s financial freedom through technology.\nWe are providing microloans to people in financial need through a fast and efficient process, always treating them with the respect and dignity they deserve.\nOur long-term vision is be the most inclusive digital bank in LATAM with more than 2.5 million clients.\n\n\n*We require that the candidate is fluent in Spanish and currently resides in the LATAM region, as it's important be willing to work under the Mexican Central Time Zone.\n\n About you\n\n🚀 \n\nAre you ready to shape the future of personal micro loans? As a Backend Engineer focused on Financial Core Systems, you'll be at the heart of ensuring our backend's performance, stability, and reliability. Your work will directly streamline our operations and accelerate product development.\n\nYou’ll collaborate with a dynamic and passionate team dedicated to problem-solving and continuous improvement. Your contributions will be instrumental in achieving our product goals, to ensure our customers experience the best feeling by using our products.\n\nYou’ll take charge of important projects focused on improving functionality, helping us achieve our key objectives and results (OKRs). Your work will enhance user experiences and streamline processes through clear communication and quick updates. Join us and make a real impact in the micro-loan industry!\n\n\nAs Backend Engineer, these are the challenges that you will help us for solving\n\n\n* Work with the team to design and implement backend system architecture, focusing on scalability, maintainability, and efficiency.\n\n* Improve backend performance through code optimization and architectural enhancements.\n\n* Integrate external Financial and Compliance systems and services, including third-party products in a variety of APIs implementations.\n\n* Develop and maintain reliable and efficient APIs for server-to-client, server-to-server and event-driven communication.\n\n* Implement security best practices to protect against vulnerabilities and cyber threats.\n\n* Diagnose and resolve complex issues related to high-volume transactions in the product's backend.\n\n\n\n\n Day to day\n\n\n* Collaborate to design and implement scalable, maintainable, and efficient backend system architectures using micro-services.\n\n* Develop and maintain robust and efficient APIs for server-to-client, server-to-server and event-driven communication, ensuring performance under high traffic.\n\n* Optimize backend components to ensure optimal performance, scalability, and reliability. Conduct regular performance tuning and bug fixing.\n\n* Implement security best practices to protect against vulnerabilities and cyber threats.\n\n* Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain high code quality.\n\n* Ensure seamless communication and data exchange between different components.\n\n* Participate in regular team meetings, brainstorming sessions, and collaborative planning.\n\n* Stay updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, to continuously improve development processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance productivity and product quality.\n\n\n\n\nRequirements \n\n\n* 5+ years of experience in backend development in a fast growing product.\n\n* Hands-on experience designing and building micro services architectures.\n\n* Proven ability to develop and maintain RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.\n\n* Demonstrated skills in optimizing system performance, scalability, and reliability.\n\n* Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.\n\n* Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code, following industry standards and best practices.\n\n* Experience with monitoring, maintaining, and supporting backend systems in a production environment.\n\n* Ability to create and maintain detailed technical documentation for system architecture, design, and processes.\n\n* Experience with writing and maintaining unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure system reliability.\n\n* Experience with designing and maintaining scalable data models in relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL which the capability to ensure data integrity and precision.\n\n*  \n\n\n\n\n🚀 Nice to have\n\n\n* Experience with tech leading small groups of at most 6 people, giving them technical direction and support.\n\n* Expertise in putting together well designed solutions to support constant-growing financial platforms by implementing cutting-edge technology and patterns.\n\n* In-depth knowledge and experience working in the fintech industry.\n\n* Familiarity with STP (Sistema de Transferencias y Pagos) and its operations.\n\n* Understanding and experience with SPEI (Sistema de Pagos Electrónicos Interbancarios) and its implementation.\n\n* Expertise in disbursement processes, payment gateways, and financial transaction handling.\n\n* Knowledge of various financial products, particularly personal micro loans and their lifecycle.\n\n* Understanding of regulatory compliance requirements in the Mexican fintech sector.\n\n* Knowledge of risk assessment and management in financial services.\n\n* Experience applying machine learning techniques to financial data for fraud detection, credit scoring, etc.\n\n* Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes for managing containerized applications.\n\n* Skills in data analysis and using tools like SQL, Python (Pandas), or R to extract insights from financial data.\n\n*  \n\n\n\n\nWhat is our way of working?\n\n\n* We aim to be as product centric as possible, which means we always prioritise:\n\n* Listening to our customers (whether internal or external), mainly qualitatively and secondary quantitatively\n\n* Focusing on real problems our clients face\n\n* Strong focus on customer experience\n\n* Assuring that every product adds value to both, our business and our customers\n\n* Falling in love with the problem instead of the solution\n\n* Quick validation and learning\n\n* Strong collaboration within your team and other teams\n\n* Small, progressive, incremental delivery, innovation comes from iterations not from scratch.\n\n\n\n\n\n What we offer\n\n\n\n* Being part of a multinational, highly driven team of professionals\n\n* Flexible and remote working environment\n\n* High level of ownership and independence\n\n* 20 vacation days / year + 75% holiday bonus\n\n* 1 month (proportional) of Christmas bonus\n\n* Vales de despensa of 3,257 MXN / month\n\n* Health & Life insurance\n\n* Home office set-up budget\n\n* Unlimited budget for Kindle books\n\n* 2 psychological sessions/month with Terapify\n\n* Baubap Free Loan\n\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, GraphQL, Python, Docker, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $80,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nMexico City, Mexico City, Mexico