Senior Backend Engineer at Papaya

About the Role: 

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Papaya, you will be an important part of building a new product line. These products will service some of the largest financial institutions in America, and you will work closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and business stakeholders to produce high quality, scalable, and testable backend code.

Flexibility, communication, and a willingness to learn are of the highest importance. Papaya believes that diversity helps build an inclusive culture where all team members can grow, contribute, and feel valued. If you agree, we’d love to hear from you!

Remote engineers within Latin America are welcome to apply. Depending on your skill and experience, you can expect to make somewhere between $6,000 and $7,500 USD per month upon joining the company.

What you will do: 

• Find creative solutions to technical problems
• Write well designed, testable and reliable backend code
• Contribute to code reviews and technical architecture discussions and documentation
• Collaborate with product and other stakeholders
• Build and maintain APIs that integrate with large financial institutions
• Work primarily with NestJS, Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Docker

What you can bring: 

• 8+ years of proven Node and/or Java  experience
• Flexibility; you can seamlessly switch gears between cranking out prototypes and carefully architecting systems for correctness, reliability and security
• Curiosity; ask questions so we can all come up with optimal solutions
• Experience with scalable service architecture and design
• Have knowledge of REST, GraphQL, Spring, Gradle/Maven
• Some proficiency in SQL (PostGres) and NoSQL (MongoDB)
• Experience with Git for version control
• DevOps or App Security experience a plus
• Have impeccable verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences