Senior Backend Engineer - Payments & Fraud Systems

Fraud Deflect; Colombia; Presencial; COP 120.000.000 - 180.000.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Fraud Deflect is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own major backend projects and build them with the engineering team. You’ll lead production-grade Python services, APIs, and data pipelines for payments and fraud workflows, while ensuring reliability and maintainability.

The role emphasizes pace, ownership, and collaboration, requiring 8+ years of experience and strong SQL skills. You’ll work closely with the team to plan releases and improve system reliability.

Formación

• Fluent English communication for technical discussions and updates.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backends in Python.
• Experience leading substantial projects with multiple engineers and ownership after launch.
• Strong SQL skills with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or ClickHouse.

Responsabilidades

• Own major backend projects from design through rollout and coordinate milestones.
• Build Python services, APIs, integrations, background workers, and data pipelines for payments, fraud alerts, disputes, and chargebacks.
• Plan releases to verify production changes, spot problems early, and rollback if needed.
• Design for safe retries, duplicates, and partial failures; diagnose with logs, payloads, and SQL.
• Pair with teammates on hard problems, review code, and write runbooks for operations.

Conocimientos

English fluency

Backend development

Leadership

SQL

Herramientas

Python

FastAPI

Flask

SQLAlchemy

Airflow

Descripción del empleo

Fraud Deflect is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own major backend projects and build them with the engineering team. You’ll lead production-grade Python services, APIs, and data pipelines for payments and fraud workflows, while ensuring reliability and maintainability.

The role emphasizes pace, ownership, and collaboration, requiring 8+ years of experience and strong SQL skills. You’ll work closely with the team to plan releases and improve system reliability.