TransUnion

Lead Engineer

TransUnion  •  Republic of Costa Rica (Remote)  •  17 days ago
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Job Description

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What We'll Bring:

We're hiring a Senior Systems Developer to take ownership of critical backend and infrastructure systems. You’ll design scalable solutions, mentor others, and drive improvements across our platform. You'll also play a key role in working directly with clients to understand requirements, solve complex issues, and deliver robust systems—always with testing at the core.

About the Team:
The team is responsible for the Monevo Decisioning and Offers platform, which is built around a powerful, scalable decisioning engine. We collaborate with major financial institutions to host or integrate with their decisioning and offers platforms, providing customers with accurate, personalized offers and making it as seamless as possible for them to access these products. Our platform leverages large datasets, including Credit Bureau data, machine learning models and other techniques to power our decision-making processes.

What You'll Bring:

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Design and build reliable backend systems and infrastructure tooling
  • Use TDD to write high-quality, maintainable code and build out automated test suites
  • Own reliability, observability, and performance of key services
  • Collaborate with clients to understand requirements, debug issues, and propose solutions
  • Drive improvements to system architecture, automation, and deployment processes
  • Mentor junior developers and contribute to a strong engineering culture
  • Take ownership of problems—investigate, iterate, and fix

Impact You'll Make:

Must-Haves

  • Strong programming skills in Node.js or similar backend language
  • Deep understanding of TDD and a strong focus on automated testing
  • Experience with Cloud Platforms AWS or GCP
  • Experience owning backend systems in production environments
  • Comfort working directly with clients to gather requirements and debug issues
  • Strong problem-solving skills and a desire to understand the root cause of complex issues
  • Clear communicator—both in writing and on calls

Nice-to-Haves

  • Infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and observability tooling
  • Experience scaling systems under sustained load
  • Contributions to internal tooling or open source
  • Experience with large datasets and machine learning models

Team & Tech Stack

  • You’ll work with other senior engineers to shape and scale our systems
  • Our stack includes Node.js, MariaDB, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, GitHub Actions, Terraform
  • We practice test-driven development—every change is backed by tests
  • We utilise a microservice architecture, making use where possible of AWS serverless computing, GitHub Actions, and Terraform to allow safe, frequent updates to high-performance, high-volume services

What Success Looks Like

In your first 3 months, you’ve led a meaningful technical improvement and solved client-facing issues with confidence. By 6 months, you’re driving technical strategy and actively mentoring other team members.

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This is a remote position which may require occasional in-person attendance at work-related events at the discretion of management.

TransUnion Job Title

Lead Engineer, Software Development

TransUnion

About TransUnion

TransUnion is a global information and insights company that makes trust possible in the modern economy. We do this by providing an actionable picture of each person so they can be reliably represented in the marketplace. As a result, businesses and consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things.

This picture is grounded in our legacy as a credit reporting agency which enables us to tap into both credit and public record data; our data fusion methodology that helps us link, match and tap into the awesome combined power of that data; and our knowledgeable and passionate team, who stewards the information with expertise, and in accordance with local legislation around the world.

A leading presence in more than 30 countries across five continents, TransUnion provides solutions that help create economic opportunity, great experiences and personal empowerment for hundreds of millions of people.

We call this Information for Good® — it’s our purpose, and what drives us every day.

Contact Us

Customer support: https://transu.co/60024D64I

Business support: https://transu.co/60044D67G

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Year Founded
Unknown
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