Senior Software Engineer (Ecuador)

🚀 Join Paystone and Craft the Future of Customer-Driven Growth! 🚀

At Paystone, we're not just building products; we're shaping the future of growth for small businesses. Our innovative solutions empower business owners with both hands-off and hands-on tools, ensuring every customer interaction is a step towards success. Rooted in our core Values of thinking people first, solving impactful problems, and building a better future, we're on a mission to revolutionize the way businesses thrive.

Your Role: Senior Software Engineer

Are you passionate about making a real difference? Do you thrive in environments where innovation and mentorship go hand in hand? Paystone is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a flair for technical leadership and a heart for nurturing talent. In this role, you'll not only drive the adoption of cutting-edge tools and practices but also serve as a beacon of inspiration for our engineering culture. You'll architect and build highly available, scalable, mission-critical backend services to drive the future of payments.

Why join us?

Paystone is growing and evolving on a weekly and monthly basis. We’re getting hyper-focused on filling a market gap with our product, which is also growing. We’re a group of really passionate people who really like to push the status quo and do what’s right.

Your Focus:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using TypeScript, with a strong emphasis on GraphQL.
• Build scalable and efficient APIs, ensuring seamless data flow between front-end and back-end systems.
• Develop cloud-native microservices that leverage GCP services such as Cloud Spanner, Datastore, and Pub/Sub.
• Architect and optimize backend systems for scalability, performance, and reliability in high-traffic environments.
• Manage and automate cloud infrastructure with Terraform, ensuring efficient deployments and resource management.
• Maintain high code quality through testing, code reviews, and adherence to best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve backend issues, ensuring system stability and scalability.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, helping evolve our technology stack and backend systems.
• Prepare system documentation, test plans and deployment plans, where/when applicable.
• Involved in project requirements-gathering and creating specifications.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of experience in backend development, with significant expertise in TypeScript.
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), especially Cloud Spanner, Datastore, and Pub/Sub.
• Proven ability to build and optimize APIs in large-scale, production environments.
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture, GraphQL, RESTful API design, and distributed systems.
• Proficiency in using Testing Frameworks such as Jest, Cypress and Artillery for different levels of testing.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex backend issues.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in agile development environments.