Backend Staff Engineer

🕒 February 11

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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DEUNA

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51 - 200 employees

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 $30M Series A on 2022-07

Fintech • SaaS • eCommerce

DEUNA is a company that provides a unified payments platform designed to simplify global payments and boost next-generation commerce. It offers a single integration to manage hundreds of payment solutions, facilitating geographical expansion and enhancing transaction efficiency. DEUNA's platform provides features like no-code payment orchestration, centralized payment reconciliation, and advanced insights for strategic decision-making. The company focuses on delivering seamless checkout experiences, improving transaction approval rates, and increasing online sales for its clients.

📋 Description

• Design and evolve scalable, secure, and resilient backend systems. • Architect high-availability APIs and distributed services. • Define best practices for reliability, observability, and performance. • Write high-quality, production-grade backend code. • Lead refactoring efforts and performance improvements. • Identify system bottlenecks and implement scalable solutions. • Design data models, caching strategies, and asynchronous workflows. • Provide technical direction across teams. • Lead complex design discussions and evaluate trade-offs. • Improve backend development standards and documentation practices. • Design systems capable of handling high-traffic and transaction-heavy workloads. • Define strategies for load balancing, scaling, monitoring, and failure handling. • Improve system instrumentation and observability.

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience as a Senior Backend Engineer, Principal Engineer, or Staff Engineer. • Strong backend expertise in: Golang and/or Python • Deep experience with: • Distributed systems • API design (REST/GraphQL) • Event-driven architectures • Strong knowledge of: • Data structures and algorithms • System design and performance optimization • Design patterns • Experience with AWS and cloud-native infrastructure. • Strong knowledge of relational and non-relational databases. • Experience with caching (e.g., Redis) and messaging systems. • Strong understanding of security best practices. • Excellent communication skills. Native or fluent English. Spanish is a plus. • Nice to Have • - Experience in payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure. • - Experience designing transaction processing systems. • - Familiarity with fraud prevention, payment orchestration, or financial compliance systems.

🏖️ Benefits

• Vacations and additional PTO 🏝️ • Remote work from anywhere 💻 • Economic support for health insurance, internet and cell phone line📱🌐 • We all own DEUNA, we offer stock options 💸 • Learning and development platform 📚 • Multidisciplinary, diverse and dynamic team 🧡 • Growth and career path 🚀