Senior Backend Engineer: Fintech Payments At Scale

Banchile Administradora General De Fondos Sa; Santiago; Presencial; CLP 42.000.000 - 70.000.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

Insight Global, partnering with a leading global fintech, seeks a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design and build scalable payments platform components. You will contribute across the full software lifecycle from architecture to deployment, delivering systems for payments, onboarding, settlement, and financial transactions.

The role requires collaboration with product, compliance, and operations, mentoring engineers, and driving modernization within a cloud-based, high-volume environment.

Qualificações

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Experience with C#/.NET or similar OOP language.
• Experience building production-scale backend systems.
• Payments/fintech or money movement experience.
• Microservices and event-driven design experience.
• Cloud experience with AWS preferred.
• Proficient with CI/CD and modern deployment practices.
• Strong collaboration with product/compliance/ops teams.
• Experience using AI development tools in daily workflow.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for payments and platform functionality.
• Enhance onboarding, payments, settlement, FX, and financial operations.
• Collaborate with product, compliance, and operations to deliver capabilities end-to-end.
• Develop integrations with external partners and third-party platforms.
• Drive reliability, monitoring, incident response, and production readiness.
• Participate in architecture discussions and design reviews.
• Provide mentorship to mid-level engineers.
• Lead modernization initiatives around cloud infrastructure and platform transformation.
• Leverage AI tools to improve development productivity and code quality.

Conhecimentos

Backend development

C#/.NET

Microservices

AWS

CI/CD

Mentoring

AI tooling

Communication

Distributed systems

Payments/fintech

Ferramentas

AWS SQS

AWS Lambda

AWS ECS

DynamoDB

S3

Descrição da vaga

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Insight Global is partnering with a leading global financial technology organization focused on cross-border payments and currency exchange solutions. Supporting both businesses and consumers, the company operates at significant scale while maintaining an agile engineering environment where innovation, ownership, and collaboration drive product development. This is an opportunity to help build and modernize critical financial systems that support customers across multiple international markets.

About the Role

Insight Global's client is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to play a key role in designing, building, and enhancing the next generation of its payments platform. This individual will contribute across the full software development lifecycle, from architecture and system design through production deployment and operational support. The role offers the opportunity to work closely with product, compliance, operations, and engineering leaders while developing highly scalable backend services that support payment processing, settlement, onboarding, and financial transactions. The ideal candidate is a technically strong engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, driving modernization efforts, mentoring others, and taking ownership of systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services supporting financial transactions and payment platform functionality.
• Build and enhance systems related to onboarding, payments, settlement, foreign exchange, and business-critical financial operations.
• Collaborate with product, compliance, and operational teams to deliver new capabilities from concept through deployment.
• Develop and maintain integrations with external partners and third-party platforms.
• Drive service reliability, monitoring, observability, incident response, and production readiness within assigned domains.
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical planning, and design reviews.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to mid-level engineers.
• Contribute to modernization initiatives involving cloud infrastructure, service-oriented architecture, and platform transformation efforts.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools throughout the software development lifecycle to improve productivity and code quality.

Skills and Requirements

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with C#/.NET or another OOP language (Java, Go, etc.) and willingness to work in a .NET environment.
• Experience building and supporting production-scale backend systems.
• Payments, fintech, FX, or money movement experience.
• Microservices, event-driven architecture, and system design experience.
• Cloud experience required; AWS preferred.
• Daily use of AI development tools such as Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar.
• Product-focused mindset with strong communication skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
• Experience with AWS services such as SQS, Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, and S3.
• Experience with distributed systems and high-volume transaction processing.
• Experience leading technical design discussions and mentoring engineers.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.