Senior Payments Backend Engineer (Go/Node/TS)

Instaleap; Bogotá; On-site; COP 150,000,000 - 260,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work option

Flexible hours

Additional vacation days

Half-day birthday

Educational budget

Health insurance

Job summary

Instaleap is hiring a backend-focused engineer in Bogotá to design, build, and evolve end-to-end payment services. You will implement gateways, ensure reliability, and lead scalable architecture while maintaining current customer operations.

You will work with Go for new services and Node.js/TypeScript with PostgreSQL for existing systems, while following best practices in testing, observability, and security. Hybrid work and growth opportunities are offered.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building production services with Go and APIs.
• Experience with Node.js, TypeScript and PostgreSQL in backend systems.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience with reliability engineering, testing, and observability.
• Experience with AWS and infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Technical leadership, mentoring, and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve payment services end to end, using Go for new services and Node.js/TypeScript/PostgreSQL to maintain existing systems.
• Design and implement payment gateway integrations for authorization, capture, cancellation and refunds.
• Build reliable transaction workflows with retries, timeouts, idempotency, concurrency, and partial failures.
• Drive technical solutions from discovery to production, translating business requirements into maintainable designs.
• Contribute to evolution of our payment platform, migrating from legacy systems to scalable modular architecture.
• Ensure production reliability and observability with monitoring, logs, tracing, automated testing, and incident analysis.
• Raise engineering standards through code reviews, architecture decisions, testing strategies, and development practices.
• Collaborate with Product and other engineering teams to clarify requirements and deliver aligned solutions.
• Share knowledge and provide technical leadership, mentoring teammates and facilitating discussions.
• Contribute to deployment and operations using AWS, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Go

Node.js

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Payment gateways

Distributed systems

Microservices

AWS

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Testing

Tools

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Instaleap is hiring a backend-focused engineer in Bogotá to design, build, and evolve end-to-end payment services. You will implement gateways, ensure reliability, and lead scalable architecture while maintaining current customer operations.

You will work with Go for new services and Node.js/TypeScript with PostgreSQL for existing systems, while following best practices in testing, observability, and security. Hybrid work and growth opportunities are offered.