Product Engineer

Who we are At R2, we believe that small and medium businesses are the productive engine of society. Small and medium businesses (SMBs) make up over 90% of companies in Latin America, yet they face a trillion-dollar credit gap. Our mission is to unlock SMBs potential by providing financial solutions that are tailored to their needs. We are reimagining the financial infrastructure of Latin America - where SMBs financial needs are satisfied without ever having to go to a bank. R2 enables platforms in Latin America to embed financial services that SMBs can then leverage (starting with revenue-based financing and buy now pay later for business customers). We are a tight knit team coming from organizations such as Google, Amazon, Nubank, Uber, Capital One, Mercado Libre, Globant, J.P. Morgan, and Ualá. We are backed by world-class investors such as Gradient Ventures (Googles AI-focused fund), COMETA, General Catalyst, Hi Ventures, Y Combinator, Femsa Ventures, Prosus, Endeavor Catalyst, among others. Were looking for a Product Engineer who can design highly scalable systems and services, integrate our systems into various third-party platforms, promote a culture of technical learning, and push teammates to grow into excellent engineers. What youll work on Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across R2 Own the product and solution architecture Ensure best practices and uptime Contribute to company-wide standards and reliability Ensure delivery of mission-critical systems with tight deadlines Increase the quality of the delivered code, towards a zero-bug policy Research and invest in new tooling to improve services Think about security throughout everything you do Promote a culture that fosters learning, growth, risk taking, and accountability Work with other teams to figure out how to build tools to make them more productive Who you are 5+ years of engineering experience building API-driven services, with an appetite to code on a daily basis. Experience with distributed architecture patterns, in particular microservices. Experience programming in either Go, Python or Java. Experience in designing and implementing robust data models for production using databases like PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and/or Snowflake. Experience in containers (Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes). Originally posted on Himalayas