Senior Payments Backend Engineer (Go/Node) | Hybrid + Flexible Hours

Instaleap; Bogotá; Hybrid; COP 120,000,000 - 180,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work

Flexible hours

Additional days off to vacations

Half day off on your birthday

Educational Budget

Health insurance

Job summary

Instaleap is seeking a Backend Engineer to build and evolve payment services end to end. You will use Go for new services and Node.js/TypeScript for maintaining existing systems, and design gateway integrations for core payment flows.

You will shape reliable transaction workflows, focus on observability, and drive deployment from discovery to production, collaborating with Product and other engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Backend engineer with production Go experience and API design focus.
• Experience evolving and maintaining backend systems in Node.js/TypeScript.
• Strong track record with relational data and transactional integrity.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve payment services end to end using Go for new services and Node.js/TypeScript for existing systems.
• Design and implement payment gateway integrations for authorization, capture, cancellation and refunds.
• Build reliable transaction workflows with retries, timeouts, and idempotency.

Skills

Go

Node.js

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

APIs design

Reliability engineering

AI-assisted development

Security in payments

Code reviews

Tools

AWS

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Instaleap is seeking a Backend Engineer to build and evolve payment services end to end. You will use Go for new services and Node.js/TypeScript for maintaining existing systems, and design gateway integrations for core payment flows.

You will shape reliable transaction workflows, focus on observability, and drive deployment from discovery to production, collaborating with Product and other engineering teams.