Senior Software Engineer Full stack (LATAM)

Sezzle; Bogotá; A distancia; COP 183.360.000 - 366.719.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Flexible remote work

Descripción de la vacante

Sezzle is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) for LATAM. You will tackle backend and frontend challenges in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, focusing on scalable REST APIs and distributed architectures.

The role emphasizes mentorship, high-quality delivery, and cross-functional coordination with product and support teams. You will work with Golang, Typescript, and Python in a cloud-based stack (Kubernetes on AWS) with observability and CI/CD practices, helping Shaping the

Formación

• BS in Computer Science or similar degree.
• 10+ years of full-stack software engineering experience.
• Experience building REST APIs using Java or Python.
• Experience with distributed, cloud-based architecture and messaging systems (RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka).
• Experience with React frontend and Typescript.

Responsabilidades

• Design software applications and features in React.
• Develop and scale a distributed architecture, ensuring consistency while scaling.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to design market-winning products.
• Develop and collect metrics to drive continuous improvement of existing products.
• Deliver high quality features with tests and reporting standards.
• Lead small development teams to bring a project to market.
• Mentor other engineering teammates to elevate their knowledge.
• Develop and serve REST APIs and collaborate across backend and frontend.

Conocimientos

Golang

Typescript

Python

React

React Native

Git

Gitlab

CI/CD pipelines

Educación

BS in Computer Science

Herramientas

Kubernetes

AWS

Prometheus

NewRelic

Datadog

RabbitMQ

SQS

Kafka

ORM

Descripción del empleo

Senior Software Engineer Full stack (LATAM)

Latin America

The salary range for this role is $5,000 - $10,000 per month (Gross in USD)

About Sezzle:

With a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We’re not just transforming payments; we’re redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we’re building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you’re excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping!

Compensation:

For this senior development role, with 8+ years of experience, the compensation range is $5,000 - $10,000 USD per month. This range acknowledges the extensive expertise, leadership capabilities, and significant contributions expected at this level, offering a competitive salary to reflect the value of advanced skills and experience.

Interview Process

We believe transparency is important at Sezzle. Regularly providing feedback while setting expectations is part of our culture starting with the interview process. Advancement through each step is not guaranteed.

• Application submitted (you are here)
• Cognitive test (12 min)
• Coding assessment (~1.5 hours)
• Interview with recruiters (30 min)
• Interview with engineers (1 hour)
• Interview with engineering leadership (30-45 min)
• Offer!

About the Role:

We are seeking a talented and motivated Senior Software Engineer who is best in class with a high IQ plus a high EQ. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement.
As a Senior Software Engineer with Sezzle, you will work with a highly-motivated team to tackle interesting and challenging problems across multiple areas of the organization. Your experience and guidance will help other members of the team level-up their own skills as well.

In this backend focused role, you will work closely with stakeholders from Product, Support and the business. You’ll also partner with other engineering teams to provide high-quality, scalable, and innovative solutions to internal and customer problems. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include designing, developing, and delivering new features, as well as unblocking and mentoring your teammates.

This role has both an internal and external focus, your contributions will make a meaningful difference in the day-to-day lives of your peers at Sezzle, enhancing their ability to support our business and customers, and you will have opportunities to take any feedback and iterate.

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Design software applications and features in React
• Help build out a distributed architecture, creating solutions that work within it, maintaining consistency while scaling highly
• Coordinate with internal company stakeholders to design market winning products
• Develop and collect metrics to drive continuous improvement of existing products
• Deliver high quality features which can be tested and adheres to reporting standards
• As needed, lead small development teams to bring a project to market
• Mentor other engineering teammates to help elevate their experience and knowledge
• At least 10 years of full-stack software engineering experience
• Experience bringing new ideas and building consensus on the path forward
• Experience with building and serving REST APIs using Java Python or a similar language.
• Experience working in a distributed, cloud-based architecture, with either design patterns like transactional outboxes, or queuing tools like RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka
• BS in Computer Science or similar degree.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience with SQL based RDMS through an ORM tool
• Comfortable using observability platforms like Prometheus, or vendor solutions like NewRelic or Datadog to instrument your code for production monitoring and alerting.
• DevOps experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with containerized micro-service architecture deployed with Kubernetes on AWS
• Demonstrated history of delivering commercial APIs and web applications
• A clear record of getting products to market and prioritizing solutions and improvements based on stakeholder/customer feedback.

About You:

• You have relentlessly high standards - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You’re not bound by convention - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
• You need action - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
• You earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit - you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results - you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.
• Languages: Golang, Typescript, Python
• Frontend: Typescript - React and React Native
• Version Control: Git
• CI/CD: Gitlab
• Testing: Developer-driven, focus on automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Sezzle is focused on using open source, and we build what we can before buying!

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome?

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

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