Senior Software Engineer with Accounting Experience (LATAM)

The role

You will design, develop, and optimize high-impact systems for financial reporting, reconciliation, and automation workflows. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build software solutions in Golang, Python, and SQL.

What you will do

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance and maintain software solutions for financial processes.
• Participate fully in the software development lifecycle, from design through deployment.
• Build new features and products as part of an integrated engineering team.
• Leverage accounting background to identify gaps and improve automation and reconciliation workflows.
• Evaluate and deploy software tools, processes, and metrics.
• Provide support and consulting on software systems usage.
• Ensure compliance with project plans and industry standards.
• Design software applications and features in Golang.
• Build reports and automations using Python and SQL.
• Help build out a distributed architecture.

Required qualifications

• At least 7 years of full-stack software engineering experience
• Experience bringing new ideas and building consensus on the path forward
• Experience with building and serving REST APIs using Go and Java Python or a similar language.
• Demonstrated experience working with Claude or equivalent large language model tools is required
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Nice to have

• Prior experience as an accountant or financial analyst.
• Solid understanding of financial operations such as reconciliation, reporting, and compliance.
• Experience in banking or financial institutions is a plus
• Proficient in multiple programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go) and experience with database systems like MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with software engineering tools, software development methodology, and release processes.
• Comfortable using observability platforms like Prometheus, or vendor solutions like NewRelic or Datadog to instrument your code for production monitoring and alerting.
• Familiarity with containerized micro-service architecture deployed with Kubernetes on AWS
• Demonstrated history of delivering commercial APIs and web applications

Before you apply

• Wonderlic test (30-40 min)
• Coding assessment (~1.5 hours)
• Interview with recruiters (30 min)
• Interview with engineers (1 hour)
• Interview with engineering leadership (30-45 min)

About the company

Sezzle is a fintech company with a mission to financially empower the next generation by blending cutting-edge tech with interest-free installment plans.