About PayJoy

PayJoy, a Public Benefit Corporation, is a mission-first credit provider dedicated to helping under-served customers in emerging markets to achieve financial stability and success. Our patented technology for secured credit provides an on-ramp for new customers to enter the credit system. Through PayJoy’s point-of-sale financing and card offerings, customers gain access to a modern quality of life. PayJoy’s credit also allows our customers to seize opportunities as micro-entrepreneurs, and acts as insurance for tough times. Through our cutting-edge machine learning, data science, and anti-fraud AI, we have served over 18 million customers as of 2025 while achieving solid profitability for sustainable growth.

This role

The Software Engineer is responsible for developing our unique locking technology that combines our proprietary “secret sauce” and the effective use of data to give users credit-based products in emerging markets, as well as focused on world-class app design, web frontend and backend, and partner API integrations.





Responsibilities

- Code software primarily in PHP, Javascript/Vue/AngularJS, HTML, CSS. Design, implement, test, debug, and deploy features and services from product specification. Work with the Product team to deliver code that addresses business needs.
- Use and manage relational SQL databases. Use SQL programming language to perform Create, Retrieve, Update, and Delete operations (DDL and DML commands). Design and implement database schema changes to support new features.
- Understand the importance of customer data. Proper handling of customer’s sensitive information. Build data driven products.
- Work with general engineering teams and partners to deliver great products into international markets. Design and implement tools to guarantee that remote teams are able to support partners’ needs. Build APIs to deliver the data partners need in real-time.

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Bogotá)
🏢 StartX
📍 Bogotá