Software Engineer - Latam & Europe

Your Purpose At Bitso , the Software Engineer on the Nexus Squad owns the reliability, scalability, and evolution of our mission-critical pay-in and pay-out systems, the financial backbone that moves billions of dollars worldwide. You will design and deliver event-driven, high-throughput solutions that ensure every pay-in and pay-out is fast, accurate, and resilient. Working closely with product, infrastructure, and compliance stakeholders, you will shape the technical direction of a domain where the bar for quality is exceptionally high, resilience is built through continuous learning, and every millisecond of performance matters — for the millions of retail users and the businesses that rely on Bitso to power their financial operations. Reports To This role reports to the Nexus Engineering Manager. Who You Are You are experienced in Java backend development, with a proven track record of shipping production systems at scale. You are familiar with event-driven architecture patterns (event sourcing, CQRS, sagas) and have hands-on experience operating Apache Kafka in high-throughput, real-money environments. You have designed and implemented distributed, fault-tolerant microservices that handle financial or similarly critical transactional data. You have solid experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), including schema design, migrations, and query optimization. You are comfortable with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or equivalent), containerization (