Senior Backend Engineer, Payments Platform on AWS

Stefanini Group; Santiago; On-site; CLP 118,343,000 - 177,515,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global's client is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and scale the payments platform across onboarding, settlement, FX, and transactions. You will own production-grade services from architecture through deployment, collaborate with product, compliance, and operations, and mentor mid-level engineers in a fast-paced fintech environment.

The role emphasizes cloud-native design, microservices, and event-driven architectures in AWS, with a focus on reliability,

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with C#/.NET or Java/Go in production.
• Experience building production-scale backend systems for fintech.
• Cloud experience with AWS.
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and modern deployment practices.
• Proficiency in collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for payments platform.
• Develop systems for onboarding, payments, settlement, FX, and financial ops.
• Collaborate with product, compliance, and operations teams to deliver capabilities.
• Develop integrations with external partners.
• Drive reliability, monitoring, incident response, and production readiness.
• Participate in architecture discussions and design reviews.
• Mentor mid-level engineers.
• Contribute to modernization around cloud infra and SOA.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and code quality.

Skills

Backend development

C#/.NET

Java

Go

Microservices

Event-driven

CI/CD

AI-assisted dev

Product mindset

Tools

AWS

SQS

Lambda

ECS

DynamoDB

S3

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Insight Global's client is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and scale the payments platform across onboarding, settlement, FX, and transactions. You will own production-grade services from architecture through deployment, collaborate with product, compliance, and operations, and mentor mid-level engineers in a fast-paced fintech environment.

The role emphasizes cloud-native design, microservices, and event-driven architectures in AWS, with a focus on reliability,