Principal Backend Engineer
JeevesCorporate Cards company
ArgentinaSenior
CRV
Y Combinator
Andreessen Horowitz
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Design and build backend systems for Jeeves's financial platform.
- •Jeeves is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our LATAM engineering team.
- •You will design and build the backend systems that power Jeeves's financial platform.
- •Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable backend services that process financial transactions and serve Jeeves customers across 20+ countries.
- •Write clean, testable, production-quality code in Go, Python, or Node.js/TypeScript; participate actively in design and code reviews.
- •Build and consume RESTful and GraphQL APIs; design inter-service communication using gRPC, message queues, and event-driven architectures.
- •Implement security best practices: authentication, authorization, input validation, and data protection across distributed services.
- •Integrate LLM API calls (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic) into backend services as product features ensuring those integrations are reliable, observable, and cost-efficient.
- •Requirements 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- •Fluent in English and Spanish or Portuguese.
- •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 (PostgreSQL preferred): schema design, query optimization, and data modeling.
- •Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
Required skills
GoPythonNode.jsGraphQLgRPCPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDOpenAPIAnthropic APIOpenAI API
Nice-to-have skills
RabbitMQ
Domain expertise
fintech
Tech stack
GoPythonNode.jsTypeScriptGraphQLgRPCPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDOpenAPIAnthropic APIOpenAI APIJiraConfluencePostmanSlackAsanaLinearExcelPowerPoint