Mid-level Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Wellhub, a corporate wellness platform, as a Mid-Level Backend Engineer in Brazil. Contribute to the development and maintenance of Wellhub's app, frontend, and backend services. As part of the Challenges & Gamification team, you will create new products to boost user engagement and improve user experience. You will collaborate with product, UX, and data teams in a highly collaborative, agile environment. This role offers opportunities for architectural decision-making, innovation, and ownership of key features. Wellhub is committed to employee wellbeing and offers a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• Experience designing and developing complex modern web applications
• Experience in developing RESTful web services collaborating with front end teams to create mocks, define payloads, and HTTP status of APIs
• Experience with at least one programming languages such as Go, Kotlin or Java
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL technology such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, understanding common use cases and performance pitfalls
• Experience dealing with event-driven architectures and message brokers such as RabbitMQ, KAFKA, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, etc
• Experience applying computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and KPIs tracking
• Experience with microservices and high-volume distributed systems
• Experience with Cloud-based architectures
• Strong communication skills, including verbal and written English and Portuguese
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline or equivalent practical experience
• Prior expertise with Java, Kotlin, or Golang
• Experience with microservices and high-volume distributed systems
• Experience with cloud computing

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Wellhub's App, frontend, and backend services
• Create new products that can boost user engagement
• Improve user experience
• Collaborate with product, UX, and data teams
• Take part in architectural decisions
• Suggest improvements and bring innovation
• Ensure design docs are up to date
• Interact with the product team and other business stakeholders
• Be accountable for your decisions and possess a high level of ownership
• Take ownership of some key features
• Perform pull request reviews
• Take part in all the architectural decisions of the squad
• Ask for data to support product decisions
• Simplify the scope of what you are constantly developing
• Ensure successful deliveries and promote the long-term technical health of our journeys
• Ensure a high bar on code quality standards
• Spread development best practices such as code reviews, pair programming, TDD, etc
• Take part in incident resolution and troubleshooting in production
• Live the mission: inspire and empower others by genuinely caring for your own wellbeing and your colleagues
• Bring wellbeing to the forefront of work, and create a supportive environment where everyone feels comfortable taking care of themselves, taking time off, and finding work-life balance

Benefits

• Health, dental, and life insurance
• Flexible hybrid and full remote work options
• Home office stipend
• Monthly flexible work allowance
• Flexible schedule
• Access onsite gyms and fitness studios, digital fitness programs, and online wellness resources for meditation, nutrition, mental health support, and more
• Gold plan at no cost, and other premium plans will be significantly discounted
• Vacations after 6 months and 3 days off per year + 1 day off for each year of tenure (up to 5 additional days) + extra day off for your birthday
• 100% paid parental leave to all new parents and extended maternity leave
• Outstanding opportunities for personal and career growth