Serie B - Fintech Company - Staff Engineer

The role

The Staff Software Engineer will optimize the onboarding funnel and design core user management services. This hands-on role involves setting technical direction and managing high-performance distributed API design and resilient integrations.

What you will do

• Optimize the onboarding funnel including registration, identity verification, and fraud prevention flow.
• Lead the architecture of foundational identity, profile, status, and user preference services.
• Design robust, fault-tolerant integrations with external vendors.
• Define the user event architecture to propagate the user lifecycle to other verticals.
• Set development standards and guidelines including clean code, testing, and observability.
• Mentor and drive technical influence by working with tech leads, product managers, and engineering directors.

Required qualifications

• Track record as a Staff or Principal Engineer designing and operating complex distributed systems at scale.
• Advanced proficiency in Node.js and NestJS (TypeScript), or ability to lead in Rust and/or Go.
• Deep knowledge of Hexagonal Architecture, DDD, CQRS, REST/gRPC API design, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
• Experience with message queues and event streaming such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Pub/Sub.
• Experience integrating and abstracting third-party services including implementing fallback patterns, circuit breakers, and intelligent retries.
• Spanish and English proficiency.

Nice to have

• Experience in identity platforms, user core services, or high-traffic onboarding funnels

About the company

Silver is a BNPL platform dedicated to promoting financial inclusion in Venezuela. It has more than 9 million active users and serves both consumers and merchants.