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Staff Backend Software Engineer
Location
Brazil
Posted
71 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Backend Software Engineer
TRACTIAN
• Work with engineers & technical leaders across the company to ship products on strong foundations. • Build high quality end-to-end product experiences for platforms. • Improve engineering standards, tooling and processes. • Develop and lead the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps. • Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation. • Identify, scope, and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale, and taming complexity and shoring up reliability of existing systems.
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 platform and infrastructure roles.
- Deep expertise in backend programming languages (Go, Node, Python).
- Experience in managing state in distributed systems and understanding of microservices architecture.
- Proficient in backend testing frameworks and knowledge of system testing best practices.
- Experience working across engineering teams and other functions in building alignment, driving decision making, and communicating transparently.
- Experience mentoring and helping in the development of engineers and peers.
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