Backend Software Engineer

Job description

A little bit about us:

We are Belvo, an open finance API platform with the bold vision of democratizing access to financial services in Latin America. We enable any financial innovator to access and interpret financial data, as well as initiate payments from their end-users accounts. We’re turning the messy complexities of the Latin American financial ecosystem into a modern set of tools to access and interpret data and move money in a seamless and secure way.

We’re a highly-technical, passionate, and driven team. We are more than 90 people and our team currently represents 20 nationalities. We have offices in São Paulo and Mexico City – while a large portion of us work remotely.

We are tackling a very stimulating problem: connecting fintech innovators with legacy financial infrastructure. We strive to go beyond the limits of what is possible today and to do so in an elegant and developer-first way.

Since starting our adventure in May 2019, we have raised $71m from the leading VC investors globally.

You can read more about our company here and about our team and culture here. Also, head to our blog for more news about what we’re building and how we work.

About the team:

• We work in cross-functional, autonomous teams. We follow continuous delivery best practices executed on top of a modern technology stack.

• Our products are built for developers, by developers. Technological excellence is at the heart of what we do.

• We are pragmatic and customer-focused. We strive to find the right set of trade-offs in order to validate our hypothesis as early as possible, iterating on our products based on customer feedback.

• We communicate transparently. We do weekly all-hands where we get together to discuss company performance and goals.

• While we are global and remote-friendly, we also operate from our vibrant offices in CDMX and Sao Paulo. To accommodate the various time zones in which we are based, we ensure we’re always synced up between 3 pm and 6 pm, CEST.

• Also, we are backed by some of the leading investors in Silicon Valley and Latin America, including Founders Fund, Kaszek Ventures, and YCombinator.

Your opportunity:

• The Open Finance Data Aggregation team is building services that allow the integration with financial institutions. We build services that retrieve end-users’ financial information through a set of public-facing standardized Open Finance APIs, normalizing them and making them available to customers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain connections to financial institutions to retrieve, process and store data

• Normalization of “standardized” data formats and sources into beautiful and homogeneous endpoints that can be accessed through our API

• Own the creation process of programmatic data retrieval tools, services, and workflows to improve data retrieval at scale

• Implement automated quality assurance and monitoring modules

• Interface with other institutions’ engineering teams either directly or through the Open Finance Service Desk to debug and fix potential problems

• Interface with our Customer Engineering team and also directly with our customers to support implementations, debug problems or offer insights on how to better consume our APIs.

This position may be for you if:

• 3+ years of experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs.

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

• 3+ years work experience programming in Python

• Experience dealing with large amounts of data in flight

• Experience with data retrieval and normalization at scale

• Experience in event based or queue based communication

• Willingness to solve challenging problems at scale

• Used to AI coding assistants and a keen eye on automating everything

• Used to cloud native platforms, more specifically AWS

• Datadog heavy user

• You are proficient in written and spoken English

Amazing if:

• Experience with OAuth, OpenID Connect, FAPI (Financial grade API)

• Experience on the Brazilian Open Finance Ecosystem

• Asynchronous programming experience with Python’s asyncio

• Relevant programming knowledge in other languages such as Javascript, Java, Ruby or Go

• Experience building large-scale SaaS platforms with a global reach

Our tech stack:

• We’re building our platform using modern technologies, putting the focus on reliability and long-term maintainability

• We primarily use Python on the backend. We use battle-tested technologies such as Django, and we are heavy users of Python’s asyncio for some parts of our stack

• We use Javascript, Vue.js and Sass on the frontend. We are developing and leveraging our own design system and component library

• We run our infrastructure on top of Amazon Web Services, leveraging managed services. We tend to favor the use of managed services wherever possible, in order to focus on our business problems

• We observe and monitor our services using Datadog

• We follow Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery best practices

Our process steps:

At Belvo every hire is so important to us, that we share the decision to hire as a team.

• People team chat

• Take-home challenge

• Challenge presentation

• Team fit chat

• Meet the founders

Our perks:

🚀 Stock options (we are all owners and this is very important to us)

📈 Annual company bonus linked to company performance

🔆 Flexible working hours

🔝 Remote friendly

🐶 Pet friendly

👩🏻‍⚕️ Health Insurance

🎊 Paid time off on your birthday

💻 Renew your laptop every 3 years

🙋 Training Budget

😎 Team building events

🙀 Bank holidays swap inside the same month

🔋 Fitness/ wellness stipends

🚀 Yearly offsite

🍒 Fresh fruit every week, all-you-can-drink tea and coffee

🏝 Extra days off when completing company anniversary