Backend Staff Engineer

DEUNA is a rapidly growing startup revolutionizing global commerce with ATHIA, an AI-powered orchestration and payments platform that helps large enterprises boost approval rates, reduce costs, and unlock new revenue. The company is expanding into the U.S. to meet the needs of large retailers, marketplaces, airlines, and QSRs.

Location: Remote (US)

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Develop scalable and secure distributed systems.
• Define and implement best practices for performance and reliability.
• Provide technical guidance to engineering teams.
• Participate in architecture discussions and design decisions.
• Improve development standards and documentation.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Implement improvements in scalability, monitoring, and reliability.
• Design data models, caching strategies, and asynchronous processes.
• Work closely with Product and Engineering teams.
• Support the delivery of new features and system improvements.
• Ensure alignment between technical solutions and business needs.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in backend development.
• Strong experience with Golang and/or Python.
• Experience working with distributed systems, REST or GraphQL APIs, event-driven architectures.
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, caching (Redis or similar), messaging systems.
• Understanding of security best practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Good communication skills.
• English is a plus.

Benefits

• Vacations and additional PTO.
• Remote work from anywhere.
• Economic support for health insurance, internet, and cell phone line.
• Stock options.
• Learning and development platform.
• Multidisciplinary, diverse, and dynamic team.
• Growth and career path.

Additional Information

• Join a multicultural team distributed throughout LATAM.
• Dynamism, agility, and constant innovation.
• Be part of a high-impact solution for an entire region.
• The best tools and technology to operate.
• Part of the startup culture.
• Full expansion underway.