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Ismael Julià ReifsIJ

Ismael Julià Reifs

Senior Backend Engineer (+React frontends)

€520/day
Barcelona, ES
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Ismael

I help startups and growing teams ship and scale reliable web applications. I'm a backend-focused engineer who can also build React frontends when needed, enabling end-to-end delivery without extra hires. Typical work includes backend maintenance, API development, performance optimization, integrations, and feature delivery. Available for part-time.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Perk
    Full-Stack Engineer
    June 2022 - Today (4 years)
    • ● Led the integration and customization of Stripe Radar fraud signals by collaborating with Stripe data science team, designing services that combined AI outputs, internal ML signals, rule-based logic, and historical context, exposing decisions via APIs for React payment flows, resulting in a 35% reduction in fraud after the first MVP and 80% after the full release.
    • ● Redesigned payment failure UX in React/TypeScript, turning declines into actionable feedback for the user; collaborating across product, design, and support teams, reducing churn by 15% and escalation tickets by 20%.
    • ● Designed and implemented a service-oriented microservice to integrate a recently acquired company as an expense provider, unifying platform configurations and exposing APIs for client-facing expense data; deployed via canary releases with cron alerts to detect misconfigurations and enable rapid response from the team, reducing possible escalations.
    Typescript React.js External API integration Microservices Architecture Backend Service Development
  • Glovo
    Backend Engineer
    September 2020 - June 2022 (1 year and 9 months)
    • ● Built an internal automation platform from scratch, empowering IT team to define and run workflow-driven data processes; developed by using Django, Flask APIs and Vue.js with robust contracts, retries, and auditability, reducing manual work by 60% from the team, and implemented SCIM-based identity and access management to onboard new employees.
  • Unnax Payment Systems
    Backend Developer
    September 2021 - September 2022 (1 year)
    • ● Integrated ML-driven fraud detection signals into live payment authorization flows under strict latency and accuracy constraints, collaborating closely with the data science team.
    • ● Delivered new PSD2-compliant bank integrations from scratch, maintaining seamless user experience and reducing team workload by automating bank transactions.

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Education

  • Data Science
    Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
    2019
    MSc
  • Computer Science
    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
    2018
    BSc

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