Senior Software Engineer - Remote Payments & Microservices

Upwork; México; Remote; MXN 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Upwork is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join an agile team focused on building and supporting payment domain services. You will design, develop and implement scalable software capable of handling high transaction volumes.

The role involves collaborating with Product Owners, guiding technical design, and maintaining high quality through CI/CD and best practices across distributed systems and microservices.

Qualifications

• Must have strong communication and technical vocabulary.
• Must coach the team on software best practices (design, coding, troubleshooting, work breakdown, work estimation, refactor strategies, automated testing, etc.).
• Must have strong knowledge of system architecture, best practices and design patterns.
• Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation.
• Strong background with .NET Core, C#, Kubernetes / Docker.
• Knowledge and experience in Distributed systems, MicroServices, SOA and n-tier architectures.
• Strong knowledge of Relational and non-relational DBs.
• Knowledge of REST API, event-driven architecture applications, caching, scaling, security, etc.
• Strong knowledge of Managed Memory Architecture / Garbage Collector / Cache Management.
• DDD and event driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Work with an agile development team that designs, develops and maintains scalable services.
• Responsible for writing technical design specifications.
• Recommend and develop an architectural and detailed design that is used by other members of the development teams.
• Coach the team on software best practices (design, coding, troubleshooting, work breakdown, work estimation, refactor strategies, automated testing, etc.)
• Work closely with the other teams to optimize system architecture and project efficiency.
• Partner with our Product Owner to plan work and prioritization.
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
• Assist in the collection and documentation of user's requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.
• Collaborate and add value through participation in peer code reviews, providing comments and suggestions.
• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.
• Regular practice of CI/CD.
• Support, maintain and document software functionality.
• Research and evaluate a variety of software products; create PoCs as necessary to demonstrate new ideas and technologies.

Skills

Communication skills

Coaching

System architecture

C# / .NET

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Upwork is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join an agile team focused on building and supporting payment domain services. You will design, develop and implement scalable software capable of handling high transaction volumes.

The role involves collaborating with Product Owners, guiding technical design, and maintaining high quality through CI/CD and best practices across distributed systems and microservices.