Backend Engineer
Takenos helps Latin American freelancers receive international payments by providing digital wallets for instant access to funds in cash or crypto.
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About Takenos
Takenos helps freelancers and cross-border workers in Latin America receive international payments from platforms like Upwork, YouTube, and Twitch by providing digital wallet services. With it, you can create foreign currency accounts, withdraw funds instantly in local currency, and use USDT for transactions. Takenos reduces intermediary fees and enables access to global financial systems for remote workers.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead the full development lifecycle for scalable Node.js applications, from ideation through production. You will build and maintain RESTful services, optimize SQL and NoSQL databases, contribute to monolithic and microservice architectures, implement tests, debug issues, improve performance, monitor systems, and collaborate with product stakeholders.
Requirements
- Have more than five years of experience with Node.js and related frameworks
- Ideally have experience with NestJS or tRPC
- Demonstrate execution focus creativity proactivity and strong ownership
- Have experience with AWS and container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
- Be able to design and optimize data schemas
- Understand testing and debugging methodologies
- Knowledge of fintech solution design and Domain-Driven Design is a plus
Responsibilities
- Lead the full development lifecycle from ideation through production
- Write clean and maintainable Node.js code using best practices
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and services
- Design and optimize SQL and NoSQL schemas and queries
- Contribute to monolithic and microservice architectures using clean hexagonal or layered approaches
- Implement unit tests and debug applications
- Improve and continuously monitor system performance
- Collaborate with product managers partners and other internal and external stakeholders
Benefits
- Stock options
