Own the stabilization, redesign, and future evolution of the payments and reconciliation domain
Redesign reconciliation workflows to support both real-time and end-of-day processing
Standardize payments, refunds, adjustments, partial payments, and every edge case known to man
Produce clean, auditable outputs that make schools and finance teams breathe easy
Lock down data consistency across processors, internal systems, and reporting
Ship with AI engineering: automated reconciliation agents, ML anomaly detection, predictive mismatch flags
Kill cross-country and cross-processor inconsistencies for good
Make transaction posting feel instant to parents and schools
Perfectly handle prepayments, partials, advances, adjustments, surcharges
Fix calculation bugs and sync errors in the billing engine
Nail tax correctness and electronic invoicing for Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador
Help ship the next-gen invoicing platform across markets

7+ years of backend engineering experience
3+ years in payments, financial systems, or high-accuracy data workflows
Strong hands-on expertise in Python, Node.js, or similar backend languages
Deep experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and data integrity patterns
Understanding of event-driven architecture, message queues, and asynchronous processing
Experience integrating with payment providers, banks, or financial APIs
Strong debugging, root-cause analysis, and system design abilities
Full professional proficiency in Spanish and English (written & spoken)

Senior Backend Engineer

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