Backend Specialist

• Guide the technical vision for one or more products and projects over the medium to long term
• Ensure scalable, resilient architecture aligned with business and technology objectives
• Define the technical vision for products and lead cross-team initiatives and foundational improvements
• Design and define the architecture of complex systems, considering scalability, security, and fault tolerance
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies through cost-benefit and impact analyses
• Participate in priority projects from design through implementation, launch, and refinement
• Lead the decomposition of monoliths into microservices and coordinate the transition across teams
• Define and document architectural standards for APIs, service-to-service communication, and data persistence
• Reduce platform complexity and raise code quality standards
• Embed security from the outset (security by design), identifying and mitigating risks
• Manage risks and technical debt by breaking projects into smaller releases
• Provide technical expertise during critical moments and anticipate potential issues
• Automate and improve development practices, delivering consistent releases without negatively impacting users

• Strategic and product-oriented mindset, connecting work to team outcomes
• Influence product direction through technical and business insight
• Communicate and engage effectively with teams, stakeholders, partners, and customers
• Ability to involve the right people in gathering data and knowledge
• Ability to build bridges with other teams and Staff Engineers
• Leadership, consensus-building, and mentoring skills
• Participate in recruiting new talent
• Own the team's technical decisions
• Knowledge of distributed and scalable systems architecture, including microservices, serverless, and event-driven systems
• Experience with Design Patterns and Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Experience modeling data for relational, NoSQL, and graph databases
• Proficiency in deployment strategies, including Blue/Green and Canary deployments, as well as CI/CD pipelines
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
• Proven experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Proficiency in observability, including logs, metrics, and tracing, as well as resilience practices
• Knowledge of Chaos Engineering and API Gateways
• Ability to lead technical vision and influence organizational decisions
• Ability to negotiate technical and business trade-offs
• Assertive communication with technical and non-technical teams
• Product mindset and a pragmatic approach to delivering value
• Proactivity, innovation, and a focus on reducing infrastructure costs and optimizing resources

• Caju benefits card covering Meals, Food, Mobility, Health, Home Office, Culture, and Education
• Health insurance with no co-payments (Unimed, SulAmérica, or Alice)
• Zenklub, offering online consultations with therapists and coaches
• Wellhub
• Rosetta Stone partnership for language learning
• Recharge Day (day off)
• Conexa Saúde — online medical consultations
• Childcare assistance
• Alura partnership
• Fully remote work from anywhere in Brazil
• Work equipment
• Growth opportunities