Mid Backend Software Engineer - Open Finance

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.ResponsibilitiesDevelop and maintain connections to financial institutions to retrieve, process and store dataNormalization of “standardized” data formats and sources into beautiful and homogeneous endpoints that can be accessed through our APIOwn the creation process of programmatic data retrieval tools, services, and workflows to improve data retrieval at scaleImplement automated quality assurance and monitoring modulesInterface with other institutions’ engineering teams either directly or through the Open Finance Service Desk to debug and fix potential problemsInterface 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 experience3+ years work experience programming in PythonExperience dealing with large amounts of data in flightExperience with data retrieval and normalization at scaleExperience in event based or queue based communicationWillingness to solve challenging problems at scaleUsed to AI coding assistants and a keen eye on automating everythingUsed to cloud native platforms, more specifically AWSDatadog heavy userYou are proficient in written and spoken EnglishAmazing if:Experience with OAuth, OpenID Connect, FAPI (Financial grade API)Experience on the Brazilian Open Finance EcosystemAsynchronous programming experience with Python’s asyncioRelevant programming knowledge in other languages such as Javascript, Java, Ruby or GoExperience building large-scale SaaS platforms with a global reachOur tech stack:We’re building our platform using modern technologies, putting the focus on reliability and long-term maintainabilityWe 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 stackWe use Javascript, Vue.js and Sass on the frontend. We are developing and leveraging our own design system and component libraryWe 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 problemsWe observe and monitor our services using DatadogWe follow Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery best practicesOur process steps:At Belvo every hire is so important to us, that we share the decision to hire as a team. People team chatTake-home challengeChallenge presentationTeam fit chatMeet the foundersOur 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 anniversaryOriginally posted on Himalayas

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