Senior Backend Engineer | Remote | LATAM

Remote Talent LATAM; United States; Remote; USD 41,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full-Time Position

Salary: $4,000 USD

100% Remote work environment

Contract: Independent Contractor

Job summary

Higlobe is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own a critical Shopify-based backend ecosystem powering financial aid, campus card balances, and textbook rentals across 1,200 university bookstores. You will own the end-to-end charge flow, reconciliation triage, scheduled jobs, and Azure deployments, with a strong emphasis on production ownership and rigorous testing.

The role requires 5+ years in Shopify and PHP, 3+ years in Laravel, and deep experience with asynchronous systems, SQL Server, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Shopify and PHP experience, including at least 3 years of Laravel in production.
• Experience with asynchronous systems: idempotency, retries, dead letter queues, locks, and scheduled jobs.
• Strong SQL skills at the query-plan level, preferably with SQL Server.
• Solid cloud experience, ideally with Azure, including reading logs, running queries, monitoring metrics, and supporting deployments.
• Experience integrating with complex external systems and APIs, including SOAP, XML, SFTP.
• Strong judgment when working with financial transactions, including knowing when not to execute a transaction and using dry runs when appropriate.
• Strong testing practices and experience treating automated tests as part of the development process.
• Ability to take ownership of production systems and troubleshoot issues independently.

Responsibilities

• Own the charge pipeline end-to-end, including coverage, tax, shipping, refunds, multi-fulfillment, and mixed tender payments.
• Diagnose production orders across five services and identify the service responsible for each issue.
• Perform daily triage of reconciliation reports and route failures to the appropriate team.
• Own scheduled jobs, sweeps, and recovery commands that run unattended.
• Manage delivery end-to-end, including branching, PRs, QA promotion, GitHub Actions deployments to Azure, and QA steps.
• Create a regression test for every bug fix.

Skills

Shopify

PHP

Laravel

Asynchronous systems

SQL (SQL Server)

Azure

API integrations

Testing practices

Production ownership

Troubleshooting

Tools

GitHub Actions

Azure

SOAP/XML/SFTP

Job description

About the Client

Our client is a fast-growing full-service e-commerce agency focused on helping brands scale sustainably through strategy, technology, design, and performance marketing. With more than a decade of industry expertise, they partner with businesses to accelerate digital growth through data-driven decision-making and customized commerce solutions.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to take full ownership of a critical backend ecosystem powering financial aid, campus card balances, and textbook rentals across approximately 1,200 university bookstores on Shopify.

The platform handles thousands of orders and webhooks every day, with real money moving through the system. This role requires strong backend engineering skills, production ownership, and sound judgment when working with financial transactions and complex integrations.

What You’ll Own

• Own the charge pipeline end-to-end, including coverage, tax, shipping, refunds, multi-fulfillment, and mixed tender payments.
• Diagnose production orders across five services and identify the service responsible for each issue.
• Perform daily triage of reconciliation reports and route failures to the appropriate team.
• Own scheduled jobs, sweeps, and recovery commands that run unattended.
• Manage delivery end-to-end, including branching, PRs, QA promotion, GitHub Actions deployments to Azure, and QA steps.
• Create a regression test for every bug fix.

Requirements

Must-Have Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Shopify and PHP experience, including at least 3 years of Laravel in production.
• Strong experience with asynchronous systems, including idempotency, retries, dead letter queues, locks, and scheduled jobs.
• Strong SQL skills at the query-plan level, preferably with SQL Server.
• Solid cloud experience, ideally with Azure, including reading logs, running queries, monitoring metrics, and supporting deployments.
• Experience integrating with complex external systems and APIs, including technologies such as SOAP, XML, SFTP, or similar.
• Strong judgment when working with financial transactions, including knowing when not to execute a transaction and using dry runs when appropriate.
• Strong testing practices and experience treating automated tests as part of the development process.
• Ability to take ownership of production systems and troubleshoot issues independently.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Shopify Admin API, webhooks, metafields, gift cards, or checkout and POS extensions.
• TypeScript and Node.js, particularly Remix or NestJS.
• Prisma and BullMQ.
• Experience in fintech, billing, payments, or accounting reconciliation.
• Experience with Playwright or other end-to-end testing frameworks.
• Experience working with stateful, high-volume systems.

Benefits

Why Join Us?

• Full-Time Position: 8AM to 5:00PM EST M-F Business hours
• Salary: $4,000 USD
• 100% Remote work environment
• Contract: Independent Contractor

Resumes must be submitted in English.

Applications that do not meet these criteria will be automatically rejected.