Back End Java Engineer

Back End Engineer

We are looking for a Back End Engineer, with solid experience in Java, based in Latin America to work on a short-term project for one of our clients, a hyper-growth fintech company based in Los Angeles, California. Our client’s mission is to make financial advice better and more accessible for everyone. They are building a revolutionary platform for financial advisors and their clients to remove the friction from investing and reduce the barrier to entry into wealth creation and management.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain backend systems for advisory platform workflows, with an emphasis on Java and Spring Boot services, APIs, data-heavy workflows, and scalable internal systems.
• Build and evolve systems related to onboarding, permissions, account access, compliance-oriented controls, and internal operational workflows.
• Create durable internal tools that help operations teams move faster, reduce manual work, and safely handle repetitive processes.
• Partner across engineering, product, design, compliance, and operations to translate ambiguous business requirements into pragmatic MVP solutions.

Requirements:

• Advanced level of English.
• 5+ years of backend engineering experience building and maintaining production systems in Java and SpringBoot, ideally in business-critical environments.
• Strong API design and service-integration skills, with the ability to work across backend services and system boundaries.
• Advanced SQL skills and strong data intuition, including experience with Postgres, Snowflake, and data-heavy operational workflows.
• Experience working with AWS-hosted distributed systems.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering or related fields.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, including Kafka-based workflows or adjacent asynchronous processing patterns.
• Experience investigating production issues, debugging edge cases, and reasoning through multi-system failures across distributed services.
• Experience with financial systems, advisor platform workflows, RBAC or PBAC permission systems, or compliance-sensitive operational software.
• Familiarity with TypeScript, React, or GraphQL, as parts of the product require coordinated cross-stack changes.

What we offer:

• Long term positions
• Compensation in USD
• Paid time off
• Cool clients and products
• Work with great engineers
• 4tech