Senior Back-end Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Spearhead backend projects from conception to execution, overseeing the breakdown of requirements, implementation, testing, and deployment to production.

• Advance the platform architecture (monolith and/or microservices) with a balanced approach, considering immediate needs alongside long-term viability.

• Establish and uphold code quality standards, which include testing, thorough code reviews, consistent error management, and best development practices.

• Oversee intricate integrations, ensuring application robustness through strategies like timeouts, retries, idempotency, and fallbacks.

• Proactively enhance system stability and reliability in production by conducting diagnostics, mitigating incidents, and participating in postmortem analyses.

• Guide mid-level developers, fostering their technical development through pair programming, pull request assessments, and ongoing mentorship.

• Assist in the advancement of platform observability, underpinning technical choices with data and system health metrics.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in backend development utilizing Node.js and TypeScript, with hands-on work in Nest.js and/or Express in production settings.

• Demonstrated experience in defining and refining system architecture, grasping trade-offs such as service separation, API versioning, and scalability considerations.

• Practical expertise in databases, including modeling, indexing, and performance optimization in MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL.

• Familiarity with observability and incident management through logs, metrics, tracing, and monitoring tools.

• Strong communication abilities and the capacity to mentor fellow developers, imparting knowledge and guiding technical choices.

• Well-organized, responsible, and self-sufficient, capable of functioning in environments characterized by high complexity and significant impact.

• Considerable experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and DevOps/CI/CD methodologies, including Cloud Build and Infrastructure as Code, is advantageous.

• Experience with asynchronous architectures that utilize queues, workers, and DLQs is a plus.

• Proficient in advanced English for reading, writing, and technical communication is beneficial.

🏝️ Benefits

• Wellhub (Gympass)

• Life insurance