Senior Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Wellhub, a corporate wellness platform, as a Senior Backend Software Engineer in Brazil! This role focuses on improving the partner experience within our marketplace. You will build scalable architectures, write clean code, and contribute to the long-term technical health of our services. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in Kotlin, Java, or Go, along with SQL/NoSQL databases and event-driven architectures. Wellhub offers a flexible work environment, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for career growth. We are committed to employee wellbeing and fostering a supportive, inclusive culture.

Requirements

• Solid experience with Kotlin, or Java, or Go
• You are a data-driven person, who asks for data to support product decisions before blindly implementing things
• You try to simplify the scope of what you are developing constantly
• You are eager to learn and to share knowledge
• You continuously improve your toolset of technical, business, and communication skills to provide more and more impact to the company
• Expert with SQL/NoSQL technology such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DynamoDB understanding common use cases and performance pitfalls
• Great knowledge dealing with event-driven architectures and message brokers such as RabbitMQ, KAFKA, ActiveMQ, etc, and an in-depth understanding of their use cases and pitfalls
• Versed in concepts such as DDD, SOLID, Design Patterns distributed systems, and architecture
• Outstanding experience with REST concepts, you will be responsible for designing and building APIs
• You know how communication protocols work behind the scenes
• You can present your work in a meeting setting in English, or Portuguese

Responsibilities

• Build scalable, maintainable architectures, and write clean and readable code
• Bring expertise in architecture and design process
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve services focusing on performance, scalability, and stability
• Spread development best practices such as code reviews, pair programming, TDD, etc
• Ensure successful delivery of projects, and promote the long-term technical health of our services
• Support existing systems looking to enhance functionality, increase scale, and transform in new ways to meet our product demands
• Create new services and capabilities to meet emerging needs as our business grows
• Have technical influence over other engineers, by sharing his experience and knowledge
• Take part in incident resolution and troubleshooting in production
• High responsibility to keep systems reliable, scalability, SLA, and SLO
• Ensure a high bar on code quality standards
• Work to solve technical debts in the engineering backlog
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior expertise with Kotlin, or Golang, or Java
• Expert knowledge of SQL and NoSQL technologies, and an understanding of common use cases and performance pitfalls

Benefits

• Health, dental, and life insurance
• At Wellhub, flexibility fosters a happier, healthier, and more productive work environment for everyone. As a Flexible First company, we offer two work model options: flexible hybrid and full remote, and make the office a place for collaboration, community, and team building. The model for this role can be discussed with your recruiter and hiring manager. We offer all employees a home office stipend and a monthly flexible work allowance to help cover the costs of working from home
• Wellhubbers and their leaders can make the best decisions for their scope. This includes flexibility to adjust their working hours based on their personal schedule, time zone, and business needs
• We believe in our mission and encourage our employees and their families to take care of their wellbeing too. Access onsite gyms and fitness studios, digital fitness programs, and online wellness resources for meditation, nutrition, mental health support, and more. You will receive the Gold plan at no cost, and other premium plans will be significantly discounted
• We know how important it is that our employees take time away from work to recharge. 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
• Welcoming a new child is one of the most special moments in your life and we want our employees to take the time to be present and enjoy their growing family. We offer 100% paid parental leave to all new parents and extended maternity leave
• Outstanding opportunities for personal and career growth. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development
• An exciting and supportive atmosphere with ambitious people from around the world! You’ll partner with global colleagues and share in the success of a high-growth technology company disrupting the health and wellness space. Our value-based culture of trust, flexibility, and integrity makes this possible every day