Senior Full Stack Engineer Node.js

Job description

We're looking for a pragmatic Full Stack Engineer to help build the next generation of payments and wealth management products. You'll build end-to-end features for our clients, designing backend APIs with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and customer experience.

This role requires 3+ years of full stack experience and solid hands-on expertise in Node.js, NestJS, and TypeScript. Experience with AWS and knowledge of payments or wealthtech are a strong plus.

You'll join a team where you can grow as an engineer while working on real, high-impact financial systems.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain APIs and integrations with banks, payment processors, custodians, and other financial providers.
• Build web interfaces such as merchant dashboards, investment platforms, back-office tools, and onboarding flows.
• Solve the hard problems of financial systems: idempotency, transactional consistency, reconciliation, security, and data protection.
• Work directly with client stakeholders to understand their needs and turn them into clear technical solutions and roadmaps.
• Take ownership of what you ship in production: monitoring, debugging

What we're looking for

• 3+ years of experience as a Full Stack Engineer building web applications and APIs in production.
• Strong experience with Node.js, NestJS, and TypeScript.
• Frontend experience with modern frameworks
• Solid knowledge of relational databases: data modeling, queries, transactions, and performance.
• The ability to understand client problems and translate them into technical decisions.
• Initiative and ownership: you're comfortable with ambiguity and know how to prioritize what matters most.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences, including clients.
• Professional English, since you'll work daily with international clients.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS.
• Experience in payments, wealthtech, or systems that handle money or sensitive data.
• Knowledge of security and compliance standards (e.g., PCI DSS, KYC/AML).
• Experience with analytical databases, queues and messaging, or CI/CD.
• Previous experience in consulting or client-facing roles.

Why Vangwe?

• Financial expertise: become a specialist in payments and wealthtech, two of the most in-demand areas in software.
• Variety: work on different products, clients, and challenges instead of a single codebase.
• Global exposure: collaborate with clients and teammates across the US, LATAM, and Europe.
• AI-assisted engineering: we use AI coding tools daily and value engineers who use them thoughtfully.
• Perks: MacBook for new hires, free gym membership, and investment in your professional growth.

Join us

If you want to build real financial products, grow as a payments and wealthtech specialist, and own what you build, we'd love to hear from you.