Product Engineer (LatAm Based)

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Join a tight-knit team to design and build scalable APIs and services while enhancing the financial services infrastructure for small and medium businesses across Latin America.

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). We are a tight-knit team coming from organizations such as Google, Amazon, Nubank, Uber, Capital One, Mercado Libre, Globant, and J.P. Morgan. We are entering a new phase of growth following a strategic investment from Ant International, focused on rapidly expanding our partner footprint, strengthening our credit and underwriting capabilities, and scaling our operations across multiple markets.

We’re 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 you’ll 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).


Bonus points

  • Experience designing and implementing Event-Driven architectures.
  • Working experience with gRPC, Service Meshes (Istio, Linkerd, etc), API Gateways, Cyber security.
  • Familiar with UI technologies such as React, GraphQL, Server-side rendering, etc.
  • Experience building integrations with 3rd-party APIs/services is a big plus.


Locations: São Paulo, BR; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago de Chile; Bogotá, Colombia. 

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