Senior Software Engineer; Chile

Senior Software Engineer (Chile)

The salary range for this role is $5,000 - $8,500 per month (Gross in USD)

About Sezzle:

With a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We’re not just transforming payments; we’re redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values.

As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we’re building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you’re excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game‑changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping!

Compensation:

For this senior development role, with 8+ years of experience, the compensation range is $5,000 - $8,500 USD per month. This range acknowledges the extensive expertise, leadership capabilities, and significant contributions expected at this level, offering a competitive salary to reflect the value of advanced skills and experience.

About the Role:

We are seeking a talented and motivated Senior Software Engineer who is best in class with a high IQ plus a high EQ. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement. As a Senior Software Engineer with Sezzle, you will work with a highly‑motivated team to tackle interesting and challenging problems across multiple areas of the organization.

Your experience and guidance will help other members of the team level‑up their own skills as well.

In this backend focused role, you will work closely with stakeholders from Product, Support and the business. You’ll also partner with other engineering teams to provide high‑quality, scalable, and innovative solutions to internal and customer problems. Your day‑to‑day responsibilities will include designing, developing, and delivering new features, as well as unblocking and mentoring your teammates.

This role has both an internal and external focus; your contributions will make a meaningful difference in the day‑to‑day lives of your peers at Sezzle, enhancing their ability to support our business and customers, and you will have opportunities to take any feedback and iterate.

Interview Process:

We believe transparency is important ularly providing feedback while setting expectations is part of our culture starting with the interview process. Advancement through each step is not guaranteed.

What You’ll Do:

• Design software applications and features in Golang and React
• Help build out a distributed architecture, creating solutions that work within it, maintaining consistency while scaling highly
• Coordinate with internal company stakeholders to design market‑winning products
• Develop and collect metrics to drive continuous improvement of existing products
• Deliver high quality features which can be tested and adhere to reporting standards
• As needed, lead small development teams to bring a project to market
• Mentor other engineering teammates to help elevate their experience and knowledge

What We Look For:

• At least 7 years of full‑stack software engineering experience
• Experience bringing new ideas and building consensus on the path forward
• Experience with building and serving REST APIs using Go (preferably) and Java, Python or a similar language.
• Experience working in a distributed, cloud‑based architecture, with either design patterns like transactional outboxes, or queuing tools like Rabbit
  
  MQ, SQS, Kafka
• BS in Computer Science or similar degree.

Preferred Knowledge and

Skills:

• Experience with SQL based RDMS through an ORM tool
• Comfortable using…