Staff Software Engineer

PayJoy

full-time

Posted on: 10/21/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Mexico City • 🇲🇽 Mexico

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About the role

Solve Critical Problems: Identify, prioritize, and solve technical challenges impacting growth.
Lead and Collaborate: Architect new solutions, Implement newer patterns/framework that other candidates can use and implement, Identify potential systemwide solutions, guide teams, ensuring solutions meet business goals and technical standards.
Mentor & Develop: Foster a culture of learning, guiding junior engineers.
Innovate & Improve: Drive continuous improvement in our platform and processes.

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
12+ years of experience as Software Engineer, in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Strong expertise in backend development with proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, PHP, or similar; as well both relational and NoSQL databases.
Solid understanding of distributed systems, system design principles.
A can-do attitude and creative, flexible problem solving abilities, and the ability to think critically in ambiguous situations.
Being a team player, that includes review, pair programming, collaboration in one task, mentoring or being mentored.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Desirable experience with mobile technologies or mobile payment systems with the fraud and identity aspects of fintech, as well in building and maintaining large-scale systems used by millions of users.

Benefits

100% Company-funded Health and Life Insurance for employees and immediate family members
Indefinite-term contract
20 days of vacations
Phone finance, Headphone, home office equipment and fitness perks.
$2,000 USD annual Co-working Travel perk
$2,000 USD annual Professional Development perk

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