Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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.

About the role

Bittern Labs is hiring a Software Engineer, Infrastructure to work remotely from Brazil. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. Remote position. Most of the team is in Salvador, but nobody is required to come in. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Key responsibilities

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

• Private health insurance.
• Savings fund.
• Training budget.
• Flexible hours.
• 13th-month bonus.

Start: Flexible.

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