Artificial Intelligence Quarterbacking Your Maintenance
Senior Backend Software Engineer
Location
Brazil
Posted
70 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Software Engineer
TRACTIAN
• 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.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- 5+ years of backend development experience, with a strong focus on 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.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
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