Senior Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Wellhub, a corporate wellness platform, as a Senior Backend Software Engineer in Brazil. You will be part of the DOTS Shared Services squad, building and maintaining platforms that simplify the work of other teams. Your responsibilities include creating abstractions, discovering refactoring opportunities, preventing technical debt, and delivering complex projects. You will also mentor other engineers and actively participate in recruiting. Wellhub offers a flexible work environment, including hybrid and full remote options, along with comprehensive benefits such as health insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and professional development opportunities. Prior backend engineering experience and advanced English skills are mandatory.

Requirements

• You are familiar with backend stacks like Go Lang, Kotlin + Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes, and RDS or NoSQL Databases
• You share the learnings with the team
• You are self-aware of your strengths and weaknesses
• You have experience in developing APIs RESTful web services and collaborating with other teams
• You have experience applying computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, asynchronous programming, and complexity analysis
• You are proficient in automated testing
• You seek to have the highest quality in your products, considering user experience as well as systems' cost, maintainability, availability and resilience
• You have a passion for product development
• You have experience designing and developing complex modern service applications
• You have experience working with modern agile product development teams
• You help your team to collaborate within and with other teams
• You have strong communication skills, including asynchronous ones
• You are capable of clearly articulating ideas when communicating to groups in English
• You can communicate with your teammates and stakeholders asynchronously and use English when needed
• Prior experience in previous experience as a backend engineer
• Advanced English skills

Responsibilities

• Create abstractions to solve common problems
• Discover refactoring opportunities or remodeling product pieces and implement those discoveries
• Prevent technical debt accumulation before it happens by identifying and solving it
• Own and break down critical tasks
• Deliver complex projects, anticipating common pitfalls, edge cases, and weighing the cost and value of solutions effectively
• Anticipate common and tricky failures from architecture and design to product decisions
• Work based on the product vision, proactively and constructively contributing to deliver it
• Actively participate on recruiting by interviewing candidates, planning code and architecture challenges, contributing to exercises, and onboarding newcomers
• Provide deep and effective code and design review insights, ensuring excellence on team pull requests
• Provide well-thought-out, constructive, and actionable feedback (including upwards) regularly
• Mentor other engineers in their technical learning, including newcomers
• Identify and give visibility to technical debts
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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!