CONTRACTOR - Senior Back-end Developer (Scala) - Colombia

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Hiring Remotely in Colombia
Remote
Senior level
Fintech • Legal Tech • Payments • Sales • Software
AffiniPay is a leading fintech company in professional services payments and project management software.
The Role
The Senior Back End Developer will lead the evolution of a payment processing platform, creating and implementing new features, overseeing product releases, and improving application usability. Responsibilities include architecting and maintaining applications, providing access to partners via APIs, debugging, monitoring systems, and mentoring team members.
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Your Role:
We are looking for a Senior Back End Engineer to lead the evolution of our payment processing platform, a leader in securely processing large-scale transactions nationwide. You will drive the creation and implementation of new features, oversee the release of our next-generation product, and enhance usability for our diverse client base. As part of our team, you will architect and maintain both internal and customer-facing applications, ensuring they meet our high standards for quality, global payment integration, scalability, security, and seamless partner ecosystem expansion. Join us in revolutionizing payment technologies and addressing the industry's most complex challenges.
Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide secure and highly available access to partners and merchants to interact with our API platform
  • Learn and develop expertise in Scala functional programming and related frameworks
  • Create and drive the technical design of backend capabilities
  • Support software deployments, including debugging, troubleshooting, and coordination with DevOps and QA Engineers
  • Investigate, resolve, and document root cause for technical issues in production
  • Develop and monitor software system validation procedures and automated tests
  • Research and propose new technologies, industry trends, and best practices to propel our team and product forward
  • Work in a close-knit team environment to achieve engineering goals and make a difference
  • Mentor and proactively lead in areas of expertise within team and engineering organization


What We're Looking For:

  • Experience with Scala developing professional backend software. Other JVM or functional language experience may substitute.
  • Experience designing, implementing, monitoring, and debugging large-scale solutions in cloud-based environments such as AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, etc.
  • Knowledgeable in event sourcing systems utilizing streams and events. Practical experience with ApacheKafka is preferred while experience using AWS Kinesis, GCP Pub/Sub, AMQP, or other relevant systems is acceptable.
  • Knowledgeable in SQL and RDBMS environments. Practical experience with AWS RDS (MySQL or Postgres engines) is preferred while experience using other RDBMS is acceptable.
  • Knowledgeable in NoSQL datastores utilizing JSON data structures
  • Desire to contribute and participate in our culture of continuous improvement. The goals would include always improving our craft and always making our systems better.

Top Skills

Scala

What the Team is Saying

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The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
519 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Since 2005, AffiniPay has been transforming the lives of professionals everywhere. What started as a single payment product for trade organizations has transformed into four of the highest-rated financial tools serving more than eight professional services industries. And our progress shows no signs of stopping. The secret to our growth and success is our team. We support each and every team member by continuing to invest in their goals, our culture, and a diverse workplace. Because when you’re happy, focused, and fulfilled with your work — it feels like you’re doing what you’re meant to do.

Why Work With Us

We’ve assembled teams of highly collaborative problem solvers who are eager to create, collaborate and do whatever it takes to get the job done. We know that our people are our greatest asset and responsible for our ultimate success. As such, we invest in our team’s growth & development, recognize accomplishments and celebrate successes together.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
HQAustin, TX
Colombia
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