Design and maintain highly available backend APIs, services, and data systems; deliver customer-focused features, shape technical roadmaps, and uphold engineering standards across teams.
Senior Backend Engineer
📜 Description
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services that process financial transactions.
- Develop APIs and event-driven services, and optimize relational and non-relational databases.
- Own backend features from technical design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
- Integrate LLM-powered features and safely handle AI outputs, fallbacks, and service failures.
- Improve service observability, CI/CD, testing, and deployment practices; participate in on-call and incident reviews.
- Collaborate across engineering, product, compliance, and data teams in a distributed environment.
🛠️ Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- Fluent in English — professional fluency required for daily work with global teams in written and spoken contexts.
- Fluent in Spanish or Portuguese — required for collaboration with LATAM teammates, customers, and operational partners.
- 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.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate third-party APIs reliably in production — including error handling, retry logic, and observability.
- Experience working on globally distributed teams across time zones and regions.
- Comfortable using AI tools as part of everyday engineering work — integrating LLM API outputs into backend services and using AI coding assistants fluently.
Full job description
Jeeves is the stablecoin-native banking platform for global enterprises. Thousands of companies across 35 countries run their corporate cards, payments, treasury and spend on one platform, with more than $5B in annualized volume, payouts to 190 countries, and one of the fastest-growing stablecoin payment networks in the world. BMW, H&M, Lululemon, Burger King, Kavak and XP are among them, and more than 80% of customers use multiple Jeeves products.
We chose hard problems on purpose.
We hire for one thing: relentlessness. A strong motor that keeps going when the problem has no playbook. You'll know in your first week if Jeeves is right for you. For the right people, it's the steepest learning curve of your career.
Jeeves has raised more than $400 million in equity funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, CRV, Coinbase Ventures, GIC, AllianceBernstein, CoinFund and others.
If you want to rebuild how money moves across borders, come build it with us.
What You'll Do:
Requirements:
Minimum Requirements
5+ years of professional backend engineering experience building and operating production systems.
Fluent in English — professional fluency required for daily work with global teams in written and spoken contexts.
Fluent in Spanish or Portuguese — required for collaboration with LATAM teammates, customers, and operational partners.
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.
Demonstrated ability to integrate third-party APIs reliably in production — including error handling, retry logic, and observability.
Experience working on globally distributed teams across time zones and regions.
Comfortable using AI tools as part of everyday engineering work — integrating LLM API outputs into backend services and using AI coding assistants fluently.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in fintech, financial services, payments, or a regulated industry — familiarity with ledger systems, payment rails, or financial compliance (KYC/AML, PCI-DSS) is a strong plus.
Prior experience at a startup or high-growth scale-up, comfortable building in ambiguity without heavy process support.
Experience with multi-currency systems or cross-border payment processing.
Familiarity with message queue systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and event-driven architecture.
Global work experience — prior roles at companies operating across multiple countries and regulatory environments.
Fluency in both Spanish and Portuguese is a meaningful additional asset.
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