Senior Backend Engineer

Team: IT

Location: Brazil

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, secure backend services that address real customer and business needs.
• Partner closely with Product Managers during problem discovery, solution design, and technical decision-making.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable delivery of new features, improvements, and product capabilities.
• Contribute to system architecture and technical decisions, balancing scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt, improving system functionality, reliability, and long-term engineering efficiency.
• Help maximize team output by improving engineering practices, collaboration, communication, and delivery processes.
• Contribute to a product-focused engineering culture based on ownership, quality, continuous improvement, and collaborative problem-solving.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience building and operating backend systems in fast-paced engineering environments.
• Strong backend development experience with TypeScript or another strongly typed programming language.
• Solid experience with SQL databases and backend frameworks such as Nest.js, Spring Boot, or comparable technologies.
• Strong understanding of system design, scalability, performance optimization, and building reliable production services.
• Experience working effectively with cross-functional teams and participating in product discovery and solution development.
• Strong communication skills, collaborative mindset, entrepreneurial attitude, and a high degree of ownership.
• Ability to solve complex technical problems pragmatically while maintaining high standards for code quality and reliability.
• Experience with fintech, highly regulated industries, or document-processing systems is a plus.
• Familiarity with modern cloud environments and technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, GitHub, CI/CD, and MySQL is advantageous.

Benefits

• Fully remote work from Brazil.
• Paid annual leave.
• Modern technology and work setup.
• Opportunity to work with a diverse international team of 130+ professionals across 40+ countries.
• High level of autonomy and ownership over technical solutions and product direction.
• Exposure to modern technologies including TypeScript, Node.js, Nest.js, MySQL, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Collaborative environment focused on meaningful technical challenges, professional growth, and continuous improvement.