Serie B Fintech Company Lead Engineering

This is a BNPL platform that pursues a mission to give Venezuelans back the opportunity to access credit.

Since our launch in 2022 weve been dedicated to promoting financial inclusion. Today we have more than 9 million active users both consumers and merchants and weve become a trusted brand in Venezuela winning hearts and minds.

As a Engineering Lead you will play a pivotal role in shaping the backend architecture and ensuring the success of our technical initiatives. You will be responsible for guiding your squad on architectural decisions establishing best practices and ensuring the team executes with technical excellence. Your leadership will be critical in driving innovation performance and reliability for our backend services.

• Act as the Engineering lead within a squad guiding the team on architectural decisions best practices and technical execution

• Collaborate closely with frontend technical leads ensuring smooth integration between backend and frontend services

• Lead the technical strategy for backend development ensuring scalability reliability and performance

• Own the architecture and design of backend services establishing best practices and guiding the team on complex technical decisions

• Develop and maintain robust high-performance backend services using and NestJS (Express)

• Drive technical innovation by researching and implementing new technologies tools and methodologies to enhance development processes

• Ensure system reliability and performance through well-structured testing monitoring and logging strategies

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product frontend and DevOps teams to align technical solutions with business goals

• Mentor and coach backend developers fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning

• Establish and enforce coding standards and best practices for backend development

• Oversee deployments and production operations ensuring high availability and fast issue resolution

• Participate in hiring processes helping to attract and assess top engineering talent

• 5 years of experience in backend development with at least 2 years in a leadership or technical lead role

• Strong expertise in and NestJS (Express) for building scalable backend applications

• Deep understanding of RESTful API design security and performance optimization

• Advanced knowledge of relational databases preferably PostgreSQL including database modeling performance tuning and query optimization

• Experience implementing unit integration and end-to-end testing frameworks

• Expertise in architectural patterns such as microservices event-driven architectures and distributed systems

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines cloud platforms (preferably GCP) and infrastructure-as-code (IaC)

• Strong leadership skills with a proven ability to mentor and develop engineering teams

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams and squads

• Problem-solving mindset analytical thinking and ability to navigate complex technical challenges

• Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment with autonomy and ownership

• Spanish and English proficiency

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes)

• Familiarity with messaging and event-driven architectures (RabbitMQ Kafka PubSub)

• Exposure to serverless computing and cloud-native development patterns

• Silver screening Interview

• Silver Technical Interview (System Design Interview)

• Client Screening Interview

• Client Technical interview

• Client Behavioral Interview

Required Experience:

Senior IC