Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Belvo, an open finance API platform, and become part of a highly-technical team building services that integrate with financial institutions to retrieve and process end-users' financial information. You will develop and maintain connections to financial institutions, normalize data formats, and create data retrieval tools. The role requires experience with RESTful APIs, Python programming, and large-scale data handling. You will also interface with engineering teams and customers to support implementations and debug problems. Belvo offers a remote-friendly work environment, flexible hours, and various benefits including stock options, annual bonuses, health insurance, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years work experience programming in Python
• Experience dealing with large amounts of data in flight
• Experience with data retrieval and normalization at scale
• Experience in event based or queue based communication
• Willingness to solve challenging problems at scale
• Used to AI coding assistants and a keen eye on automating everything
• Used to cloud native platforms, more specifically AWS
• Datadog heavy user
• You are proficient in written and spoken English

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain connections to financial institutions to retrieve, process and store data
• Normalization of “standardized” data formats and sources into beautiful and homogeneous endpoints that can be accessed through our API
• Own the creation process of programmatic data retrieval tools, services, and workflows to improve data retrieval at scale
• Implement automated quality assurance and monitoring modules
• Interface with other institutions’ engineering teams either directly or through the Open Finance Service Desk to debug and fix potential problems
• Interface with our Customer Engineering team and also directly with our customers to support implementations, debug problems or offer insights on how to better consume our APIs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OAuth, OpenID Connect, FAPI (Financial grade API)
• Experience on the Brazilian Open Finance Ecosystem
• Asynchronous programming experience with Python’s asyncio
• Relevant programming knowledge in other languages such as Javascript, Java, Ruby or Go
• Experience building large-scale SaaS platforms with a global reach

Benefits

• Stock options (we are all owners and this is very important to us)
• Annual company bonus linked to company performance
• Flexible working hours
• Remote friendly
• Pet friendly
• Health Insurance
• Paid time off on your birthday
• Renew your laptop every 3 years
• Training Budget
• Team building events
• Bank holidays swap inside the same month
• Fitness/ wellness stipends
• Yearly offsite
• Fresh fruit every week, all-you-can-drink tea and coffee