\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

\nWho are we?\n\nSmarkets is a betting exchange for sports and political trading that has handled over £29 billion in volume since 2010. Our company mission is to fix the betting industry with the best products and best prices. We are upending the sports betting industry by growing a transparent platform that offers the best value for bettors, with the fairest odds, best technology and a superior customer experience.\n\nSmarkets is a Series B tech company that brings a professional, product-led approach to our mission. We embrace collaboration, trust, innovation and scientific rigour, while we celebrate ambitious goals and passionate energy. Our culture rewards people on merit and excellence and we strive to provide a working environment where recognition, challenges, support, collaboration, interesting benefits and shared meals provided by our chefs mix together to let you unlock your potential, grow with us and become your best self.\n\nJoin our team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our betting trading technology landscape.\n\nRole expectations and responsibilities\n\nJoin us at the forefront of engineering innovation as a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Maestro! As a key collaborator, you’ll delve deep into cloud-based architecture, wielding your expertise to strike the perfect balance between visionary design and real-world practicality.\n\nYour playground? An environment where autonomy reigns supreme, ownership is the norm, and innovation pulses through every line of code. Here, you’ll champion engineering best practices, carving out standards that push boundaries while keeping a keen eye on costs and business objectives.\n\nYour canvas? A landscape brimming with cutting-edge tech—microservices, Kubernetes, and beyond. Your mission? To explore and champion the next big thing that will keep our company’s tech prowess unparalleled.\n\nYour toolkit? It’s diverse and robust, from Linux wizardry to terraforming mastery, Python and Bash scripting finesse to the orchestration of high-scale Kubernetes-based microservices on AWS cloud. Your expertise in networking configurations and security measures will fortify our infrastructure, ensuring not just efficiency but ironclad protection.\n\nBut it doesn’t stop there. Your leadership shines through in navigating audits and compliance checks, guaranteeing that our technology adheres to the highest industry standards.\n\nAnd if you’re brimming with experience in managing Developer and SRE tooling platforms like GitLab, Jenkins, Grafana, and more, or have wielded the powers of PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka data stores in commercial settings, we’re eager to have you on board!\n\nIn a vibrant startup setting where everyone lives and breathes technology, where camaraderie fuels our close-knit teams, and where engineering uniqueness is a way of life—this is where you’ll thrive. Come shape the future of tech with us!\n\nRole Requirements:\n\n\n* You have to be based in Europe (EU)\n\n* You are a key player with in-depth knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure architecture patterns.\n\n* You are proficient at balancing between idealistic design and short-term pragmatic goals.\n\n* You actively help defining and reinforcing the standard for engineering best practices.\n\n* You explore and promote the next big technologies that will keep the company’s edge.\n\n* You have a solid knowledge of cloud-based application and microservices architecture patterns.\n\n* Strong Linux system administration skills.\n\n* Strong IAC and terraform knowledge and awareness of best practices.\n\n* You are proficient in Python and Bash scripting.\n\n* You are an expert at configuring and managing networking components, including VPN setups, to establish secure and efficient communication within and beyond the infrastructure.\n\n* You have extensive experience managing high-scale Kubernetes-based microservices infrastructure on AWS cloud.\n\n* You have experience leading and navigating technology infrastructure audits, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.\n\n* You have 6+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering.\n\n* You have extensive experience managing self-hosted developer and SRE tooling platforms such as GitLab, Jenkins, Grafana, Kibana, Sentry, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Prometheus.\n\n* You have commercial work experience using PostgreSQL database, Redis and S3 data stores.\n\n\n\n\nBenefits and Values\n\nWe offer a competitive salary package and benefits, along with a dynamic and collaborative work environment. Our values are at the heart of everything that we do which include; push to win, make others better, give a shit, be a pro and bring the energy. \n\nWe believe these are the fundamentals to ensure we are delivering what’s expected of us in the best way possible for ourselves and for those around us. Your work with us will make an impact and your voice will be heard. We are a diverse team with a strong work ethic and plenty of hunger to win. We have designed our benefits offering around Health, Wealth, Lifestyle and Development. These include:\n\n\n* Stock options which vests over 4 years\n\n* Pension scheme - An impressive pension scheme via Aviva. We will match 6% if you choose the same\n\n* Health insurance\n\n* Fresh fruit and snacks provided in the office everyday! (tea, coffee, soft drinks also included)\n\n* We’re a member of a cycle to work scheme\n\n* We want to continue to invest in all our employees and do so by providing a £1000 yearly education budget that can be used on courses, conferences, books or training\n\n* 25 days paid holiday + bank holidays to enjoy - you have the choice to carry over 5 days to the next year!\n\n* Flexible working - we want to provide a hybrid model approach to working and provide you with 2 days a week working from home.\n\n* 20 days a year of globally working - we provide the ability to work from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days a year.\n\n* We will provide you lunch everyday in the office - you don’t need to worry about feeding your belly as we have it sorted with top quality food served by our in-house Chef Alex!\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, Redis, Python, Education, Cloud, Senior, Engineer and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/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\nLondon, England, United Kingdom