
Senior Software Engineer
earnin • Remote, Mexico
Posted: May 22, 2026
Job Description
POSITION SUMMARY
We are looking for an experienced, passionate, and resourceful backend software engineer to join our Live Pay team. In our team, you’ll work cross-functionally with various teams and contribute to the design and development of key platform services. This person will need to be strong in JVM programming languages and event-driven architecture, in addition to AWS. This is a remote position, though it could also be a hybrid role from our Mexico City office as part of our expanding site. EarnIn offers excellent benefits for our employees, including healthcare, internet and cell phone reimbursement, a learning and development stipend, and potential opportunities to travel to our Mountain View headquarters. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship or immigration support for this position.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Drive the design and implementation of new features, break down complex problems into their bare essentials, translate this complexity into elegant design, and create high-quality, maintainable code
- Make a meaningful impact on the lives of our community members
- Create and maintain test automation to enable continuous integration and development velocity
- Design and deliver robust microservices integrations via REST/gRPC APIs and via messaging patterns (events/queues)
- Collaborate and mentor other engineers while providing thoughtful guidance using code, design, and architecture reviews
- Work cross-functionally with other teams, including data science, design, product, marketing, and analytics
- Debug production issues across our services infrastructure and multiple levels of our stack
- Work with distributed systems and services, and care passionately about producing high-quality code
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 4+ years of development experience in Software Engineering
- Bachelor's, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
- Proficient in at least one JVM programming language, such as Java, Kotlin, or Scala.
- Experience with at least one major framework like Spring, Spring Boot
- Hands-on experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle, experience with NoSQL databases is a plus
- Hands-on experience working in cloud environments: AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Hands-on experience with streaming and messaging technologies such as Kafka, AWS SNS/SQS, and AWS Kinesis.
- Experience with continuous integration and delivery tools.
- Experienced in developing and executing functional and integration tests.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with Kubernetes and microservice architecture is a strong plus.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, LLMs)
#LI-Hybrid
Additional Content
POSITION SUMMARY
We are looking for an experienced, passionate, and resourceful backend software engineer to join our Live Pay team. In our team, you’ll work cross-functionally with various teams and contribute to the design and development of key platform services. This person will need to be strong in JVM programming languages and event-driven architecture, in addition to AWS. This is a remote position, though it could also be a hybrid role from our Mexico City office as part of our expanding site. EarnIn offers excellent benefits for our employees, including healthcare, internet and cell phone reimbursement, a learning and development stipend, and potential opportunities to travel to our Mountain View headquarters. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship or immigration support for this position.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Drive the design and implementation of new features, break down complex problems into their bare essentials, translate this complexity into elegant design, and create high-quality, maintainable code
- Make a meaningful impact on the lives of our community members
- Create and maintain test automation to enable continuous integration and development velocity
- Design and deliver robust microservices integrations via REST/gRPC APIs and via messaging patterns (events/queues)
- Collaborate and mentor other engineers while providing thoughtful guidance using code, design, and architecture reviews
- Work cross-functionally with other teams, including data science, design, product, marketing, and analytics
- Debug production issues across our services infrastructure and multiple levels of our stack
- Work with distributed systems and services, and care passionately about producing high-quality code
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 4+ years of development experience in Software Engineering
- Bachelor's, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
- Proficient in at least one JVM programming language, such as Java, Kotlin, or Scala.
- Experience with at least one major framework like Spring, Spring Boot
- Hands-on experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle, experience with NoSQL databases is a plus
- Hands-on experience working in cloud environments: AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Hands-on experience with streaming and messaging technologies such as Kafka, AWS SNS/SQS, and AWS Kinesis.
- Experience with continuous integration and delivery tools.
- Experienced in developing and executing functional and integration tests.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with Kubernetes and microservice architecture is a strong plus.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, LLMs)
#LI-Hybrid