Role overview

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain data-intensive, high-performance backend services based on an event-driven architecture.
  • Develop and maintain APIs and services that power both real-time monitoring features and complex maintenance workflows.
  • Work closely with a cross-functional team to ensure our backend applications align with the overall product vision and user experience goals.
  • Optimize applications and data processing workflows for performance, focusing on enhancing speed, efficiency, and reliability across various operating environments
  • Continuously evolve our systems through refactoring, introducing best practices, and improving maintainability and observability.
  • Document architectural decisions and technical implementations clearly for the team and future maintainers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
  • 5+ years of backend development experience, with a strong focus developing user-facing products.
  • Solid experience in event-driven applications using messaging technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, BullMQ or similar.
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Node.js, and/or Rust
  • Deep understanding of microservices architecture and distributed system design.
  • Proficiency in both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, ClickHouse) and non-relational databases (e.g., ScyllaDB, Cassandra,, MongoDB), with a focus on performance and scalability.
  • Experience building mission-critical backend services in high-growth, product-driven environments.
  • Fluency in Portuguese.

Bonus points

  • Contributions to open-source or personal projects demonstrating backend architecture or data processing expertise.
  • Fluency in English.
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