Senior Backend Engineer

Remote Talent LATAM

. Own the charge pipeline end-to-end, including coverage, tax, shipping, refunds, multi-fulfillment, and mixed tender payments .

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeRemote • Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, ArgentinaSenior💰 $4,500 per monthWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in managing backend ecosystems, particularly in financial aid and transaction processing, with a strong focus on PHP and Laravel development. Proficient in cloud technologies, particularly Azure, and skilled in integrating complex external systems and APIs.

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PHP DevelopmentLaravel FrameworkSQL Server ExpertiseAzure Cloud ExperienceAsynchronous Systems Management

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Hard Skills

PHPLaravelSQLAzureAsynchronous SystemsAutomated TestingAPI IntegrationGitHub ActionsRegression TestingProduction Troubleshooting

Soft Skills

Strong JudgmentOwnershipProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

Shopify Admin APITypeScriptNode.jsPrismaBullMQPlaywright

Industry Keywords

FintechBillingPaymentsAccounting Reconciliation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudJavaScriptLaravelNode.jsPHPSOAPSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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
Take full ownership of the backend ecosystem powering financial aid, campus card balances, and textbook rentals across approximately 1,200 university bookstores on Shopify
Support a platform handling thousands of orders and webhooks daily with real-money transactions

Requirements

What you’ll need

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 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
Shopify Admin API, webhooks, metafields, gift cards, or checkout and POS extensions (nice to have)
TypeScript and Node.js, particularly Remix or NestJS (nice to have)
Prisma and BullMQ (nice to have)
Experience in fintech, billing, payments, or accounting reconciliation (nice to have)
Experience with Playwright or other end-to-end testing frameworks (nice to have)
Experience working with stateful, high-volume systems (nice to have)
Resumes must be submitted in English

Benefits

Comp & perks

Full-Time Position
8AM to 5:00PM EST Monday–Friday business hours
100% Remote work environment
Independent Contractor contract