Sr Software Engineer

Yalo

Hi! This is Yalo! We are on a mission to bring conversational commerce to the world...

Remember how it used to be to interact with businesses that knew and understood you, that could recommend exactly what you needed, and that with a simple message could get you what you wanted??? Yep... neither do we. That is why at Yalo we are marrying the scale of digital commerce with the personalization and simplicity of conversations to help companies delight their users.

We know that traditional SAAS companies focus on first world problems... we don't! Having started in Latin America, our roots are in Emerging Markets and therefore we care about bringing amazing experiences to a population that traditionally has been underserved, such as the small shop owner in Brazil that is ordering online for the first time.

If you're looking for a place to make things happen, learn fast, and impact emerging markets in a way that hasn't been done before, look no further. 💫

Your mission 🚀

The Senior Software Engineer will support the design and development of microservices mainly in Node.js and partially in GoLang, deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GCP).

You have a consistent track record of delivery and excellent software engineering skills, balanced with high quality code and a customer focus. You can work across multiple facets of the project. (Including DevOps, development, testing, and instrumentation). You have a robust analytic capability and the ability to create innovative solutions and must be someone who thrives in a fast-paced Agile environment with a can-do attitude and aims to learn anything needed to improve the product.

What are the responsibilities for this role?

• Implement high-performing, high-quality, tested backend applications in a microservices message-driven architecture.
• Instrumentation and monitoring of Go and JavaScript (Typescript) code
• Triage production issues, identify root causes, and participate in post-mortem writing and review.
• In collaboration with the team, participate in the creation of a technology roadmap.
• Documentation writing of new and existing features
• Actively participate in code reviews, providing insights in terms of performance, security, best practices, and overall quality of the code
• Create end-to-end integrations with customer APIs

Job Requirements (Must have)

• Experience as a Back-end Engineer or similar role
• Experience working with microservice architectures
• Proficiency with Typescript (Node.js) or Golang
• Ability to use cloud services (AWS or GCP)
• Strong experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB)
• Experience in event-driven APIs
• Experience working with Agile Methodologies & Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Experience in Backend Testing (Unit test, Integration test and E2E test)

Nice to have:

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience with Datadog

What do we offer? 

• Unlimited PTO policy
• Competitive rewards on the market range
• Remote working is available (-+3 hours CT)
• Flexible time (driven by results)
• Start-up environment
• International teamwork
• You and nothing else limit your career here

We care,

We keep it simple,

We make it happen,

We strive for excellence.