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Principal Backend Engineer

1 month, 2 weeks ago
Mexico
Full-time
Senior
Backend Engineer
Software Development
AWS Azure CI/CD Docker GCP Go GraphQL gRPC Kafka Kubernetes Microservices MongoDB Node.js PostgreSQL Python RabbitMQ Redis REST API TypeScript
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Jeeves

Jeeves

Jeeves is a global financial infrastructure company that offers open business accounts, corporate cards, cross-border payments, and expense management through a borderless platform. With operations in 25+ countries, Jeeves simplifies and centralizes fi...

Diversified Financial Services
251-1K
$368M raised
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Description

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services that process financial transactions for customers across 20+ countries.
  • Write clean, testable, production-quality code in Go, Python, or Node.js/TypeScript and participate in design and code reviews.
  • Build and consume RESTful and GraphQL APIs and design inter-service communication with gRPC, message queues, and event-driven architectures.
  • Design and optimize PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis schemas for correctness, performance, and scale.
  • Own backend features end-to-end from scoping and technical design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
  • Implement security best practices, including authentication, authorization, input validation, and data protection.
  • Integrate LLM APIs into backend services for product features such as spend categorization, document parsing, and natural language workflows.
  • Build safe pipelines for AI-generated outputs, including validation, fallback handling, and graceful degradation when AI services fail.
  • Instrument services with logging, tracing, and metrics, and contribute to incident response and post-incident reviews.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, compliance, and data teams across regions and time zones, including through documentation and async reviews.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience building and operating production systems.
  • Fluent in English for daily written and spoken collaboration with global teams.
  • Fluent in Spanish or Portuguese for collaboration with LATAM teammates, customers, and operational partners.
  • Strong proficiency in at least one backend language: Go, Python, or Node.js/TypeScript.
  • Experience designing and building RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven backend systems.
  • Solid understanding of relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, plus Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience integrating third-party APIs reliably in production, including error handling, retry logic, and observability.
  • Comfort working on globally distributed teams across multiple time zones and regions.
  • Comfort using AI tools in daily engineering work, including LLM API integrations and AI coding assistants.
  • Experience in fintech, financial services, payments, or another regulated industry is a strong plus.
  • Experience with multi-currency systems or cross-border payment processing is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar message queue systems is preferred.
  • Prior startup or high-growth scale-up experience is preferred.
  • Global work experience across multiple countries and regulatory environments is a plus.

Benefits

  • Full-time remote position.
  • Opportunity to work on a globally distributed product serving businesses across 20+ countries.
  • Work on a high-growth company backed by top investors and recognized by major industry awards.
  • The role includes participation in AI-related feature development and use of modern AI coding tools.

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