[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Remote Talent LATAM

Role Description

We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to take full ownership of a critical backend ecosystem powering financial aid, campus card balances, and textbook rentals across approximately 1,200 university bookstores on Shopify. The platform handles thousands of orders and webhooks every day, with real money moving through the system. This role requires strong backend engineering skills, production ownership, and sound judgment when working with financial transactions and complex integrations.

What You’ll Own

• Own the charge pipeline end-to-end, including coverage, tax, shipping, refunds, multi-fulfillment, and mixed tender payments.
• Diagnose production orders across five services and identify the service responsible for each issue.
• Perform daily triage of reconciliation reports and route failures to the appropriate team.
• Own scheduled jobs, sweeps, and recovery commands that run unattended.
• Manage delivery end-to-end, including branching, PRs, QA promotion, GitHub Actions deployments to Azure, and QA steps.
• Create a regression test for every bug fix.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional PHP experience, including at least 3 years of Laravel in production.
• Strong experience with asynchronous systems, including idempotency, retries, dead letter queues, locks, and scheduled jobs.
• Strong SQL skills at the query-plan level, preferably with SQL Server.
• Solid cloud experience, ideally with Azure, including reading logs, running queries, monitoring metrics, and supporting deployments.
• Experience integrating with complex external systems and APIs, including technologies such as SOAP, XML, SFTP, or similar.
• Strong judgment when working with financial transactions, including knowing when not to execute a transaction and using dry runs when appropriate.
• Strong testing practices and experience treating automated tests as part of the development process.
• Ability to take ownership of production systems and troubleshoot issues independently.

Requirements

• Nice-to-Have Skills
• Shopify Admin API, webhooks, metafields, gift cards, or checkout and POS extensions.
• TypeScript and Node.js, particularly Remix or NestJS.
• Prisma and BullMQ.
• Experience in fintech, billing, payments, or accounting reconciliation.
• Experience with Playwright or other end-to-end testing frameworks.
• Experience working with stateful, high-volume systems.

Technology Stack

• Backend: PHP 8.4, Laravel 11/12, domain-layered architecture, Pest/PHPUnit, PHPStan
• Data: SQL Server on Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Async: Laravel queues on Redis, dead letter handling, locks, BullMQ on Node services
• Cloud: Azure Container Apps, Log Analytics (KQL), Key Vault, Application Insights, GitHub Actions
• Shopify: Admin GraphQL, HMAC-verified webhooks, metafields, fulfillment orders, gift cards, checkout and POS UI extensions, Functions
• Integrations: SOAP for payments and rentals, Vertex for tax, SFTP for settlement files
• Sibling Services: TypeScript, Remix, NestJS, Prisma, BullMQ

Benefits

• 💼 Full-Time Position: 8AM to 5:00PM EST M–F Business hours
• 💰 Salary: $4,500 USD
• 🏠 100% Remote work environment
• 📄 Contract: Independent Contractor
• 📄 Resumes must be submitted in English.
• 🚫 Applications that do not meet these criteria will be automatically rejected