<div><b>About Tala</b></div><div><br /></div><div>At Tala, we’re applying advanced technology and human creativity to solve what legacy institutions can’t or wont. We are a global financial infrastructure company on a mission to unleash the economic power of the global majority, recognizing that today’s financial infrastructure doesn’t work for most of the world’s population.</div><div><br /></div><div>We’re the first and only platform to combine the intelligence of a credit bureau, the payments execution of a fintech, and the relationship expertise of a bank into one vertically integrated solution. Our platform is powered by an expansive moat of proprietary data and AI/ML decisioning technology, enabling us to deliver instant, reliable liquidity personalized to every customers needs. Through our flagship credit app, we’ve disbursed over $7 billion in credit to more than 12 million customers across Latin America, Southeast Asia, and East Africa. These customers have leveraged Tala products to start and expand small businesses, manage day-to-day needs, and pursue their financial goals.</div><div><br /></div><div>Our pioneering work and proven impact have earned us consistent recognition, including being named to:</div><div><br /></div><div>CNBC’s Disruptor 50 for five years.</div><div>CNBC’s Worlds Top Fintech Companies for two consecutive years.</div><div>Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for nine consecutive years.</div><div><br /></div><div>Visionary investors, persuaded by the economic power of the global majority, have committed half a billion dollars in equity and debt to Talas success.</div><div><br /></div><div>Given the global nature of our team, we operate on a remote-first approach with office hubs in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India. </div><div><br /></div><div>Most Talazens join us because they connect with our mission. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Tala, we’d love to hear from you!</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span>The Role </span></b></div><div><span>The Backend Engineer II will build and extend Tala’s backend architecture to support new country launches, new features, and a fast-growing user base. As a technologist, the Backend Engineer works towards building a highly available, scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant, and performant microservices platform. The backend Engineer follows Tala’s engineering processes and standards while advancing Tala’s mission and business objectives</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span>The Lending engineering domain team at Tala is looking for a highly motivated engineer to support our growing product. We are looking for someone who loves to debug, solve problems, and is always looking for ways to up-level existing systems and processes. This rewarding team environment has great culture and huge potential for career progression and professional growth. We are always looking for top tier engineers and are willing to tailor the role for the right person. </span></div><h3>What Youll Do</h3><ul><li>Designing and building large components in multiple services.</li><li>Work with the team to ensure high quality of architecture and design of systems.</li><li>Create the optimum technical solution considering all the non-functional requirements.</li><li>Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.</li></ul><h3>What Youll Need</h3><ul><li>Minimum of 2 years hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using one or more of the following languages: Java, Kotlin or Scala, using at least one web framework (e.g., Spring, Play Framework, Akka HTTP)</li><li>Working knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming patterns and concepts.</li><li>Minimum of 1 year experience building, deploying, and supporting cloud-based applications in production environments (AWS and/or Google Cloud)</li><li>Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).</li><li>Experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Aurora, etc.) using both raw queries and ORMs (e.g., Hibernate, Slick).</li><li>Experience with message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS).</li></ul><div><span>Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy. We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we’re proud to have a diverse global team that represents a multitude of backgrounds, cultures, and experience. We hire talented people regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.</span></div>

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