Backend Engineer, APIs

A bit about us

Since 1994, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing. Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Salvador and several other countries.

The position

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Backend Engineer, APIs. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. This role is fully remote within Brazil. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Key responsibilities

• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.

Skills and experience

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.

Why work with us

Pay: R$14,000 - R$17,500 monthly

• Private health insurance.
• Payment in USD.
• Home office equipment.
• Annual bonus.
• Training budget.

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Applications are reviewed weekly.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Bittern Labs.