Senior Backend Engineer, Revenue Engine – Pricing
CookUnity
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Anywhere in Latin America
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About the role
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services for payment processing, pricing, refunds and promotions.
- Optimize payment success rates by improving retry mechanisms, fraud detection, and error handling
- Develop and implement features to support promotions, subscriptions, and order finalization workflows
- Work on multi-currency support and international payment processing
- Define and uphold engineering best practices in security, scalability, performance, and code quality
- Improve the maturity of our technical stack through engineering best practices and process automation
- Monitor and enhance system performance
- Participate in code reviews, mentorship, and technical decision-making
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including finance, legal, and security to ensure compliance and fraud prevention
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend development, with expertise in Kotlin, Java, and SQL databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL)
- Strong knowledge of payment processing systems and experience integrating with third-party payment providers like Stripe, PayPal
- Experience designing and building scalable cloud-based architectures and distributed systems
- Expertise in service-oriented architectures, API design, and microservices development
- Strong knowledge of database design, implementation, and query optimization
- Experience with system performance monitoring, logging, and observability
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code
- Advanced level of English with strong communication skills, both verbal and written
- Strong AI-first mindset with a track record of proactively identifying workflows or product areas that can be enhanced through AI-driven solutions.
Benefits
- 💸 Get paid in USD
- 🗺 Work remotely: design the life that you want
- ⛱ Enjoy 15 days of vacation each year from the start date
- 🎄 16 fully paid Argentinean holidays
- 🗓️ 5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical
- 🐣 Family leave of 12 weeks for primary caregiver and 6 weeks for secondary caregiver, fully paid
- 🕯 Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises
- 🧘🏽♀️ Customize the benefits that suit your needs! Access a range of perks tailored to you, including learning opportunities, wellness memberships, delivery apps, and more through our comprehensive benefit platform
- 🧑🏫 Personalized English coach
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Hard Skills & Tools
KotlinJavaSQLPostgreSQLMySQLpayment processing systemsAPI designmicroservices developmentdatabase designquery optimization
Soft Skills
communication skillsmentorshipcollaborationproblem-solvingdecision-making