Senior Backend Engineer — Platform (Remote)

Aplazo; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Aplazo is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer - Platform to scale our core services that empower thousands of merchants across Mexico and beyond. You will design and build robust backend systems, collaborate with product and data, and mentor teammates as part of a high-performing platform team.

You should bring 4+ years of experience developing integration software, strong API design skills, and a product-minded, collaborative mindset.

Qualifications

• Years of experience: 4+ years in developing integration software systems.
• Technical skills: as described in the role; focus on backend engineering and platform services.
• Soft skills: collaboration, communication, and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

• Scale our Core Services Ecosystem: architect and build backend systems used by customers and internal teams, ensuring stability, speed and scalability.
• Solve Problems: identify platform issues, plan, verify and execute effective solutions.
• Technical work: write sustainable, high-quality, high-performance code and be open to mentorship.
• Team work: be proactive, participate in testing discussions and code-quality conversations.
• Practice the ways of Devops: improve processes, systems, culture, and workflows for autonomous teams.
• Foster a culture of observability and monitoring: use operational data to improve stability and performance.
• Learn and Evolve: embrace scaling oneself and mentoring others.

Job description

Aplazo is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer - Platform to scale our core services that empower thousands of merchants across Mexico and beyond. You will design and build robust backend systems, collaborate with product and data, and mentor teammates as part of a high-performing platform team.

You should bring 4+ years of experience developing integration software, strong API design skills, and a product-minded, collaborative mindset.