Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Emi Labs, a Y Combinator-backed company on a mission to improve access to professional opportunities for frontline workers. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in building and improving our AI-powered recruitment platform, Emi. You will design system architecture, develop microservices, and collaborate with the product team to enhance the candidate experience. This position requires 3+ years of backend software development experience, proficiency in distributed systems, and excellent communication skills. Emi Labs offers a competitive salary, stock options, flexible work culture, generous vacation time, and various wellness benefits.

Requirements

• 3+ years of back-end software development experience
• Advanced studies or a completed degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• Strong experience with distributed systems and microservices
• Familiarity with leveraging LLMs/GenAI to enhance performance (e.g., using AI assistants like Copilot)
• Excellent communication skills, with fluency in English
• A humble learner who keeps up with technology and learns from mistakes
• A proactive mindset, always eager to come up with new ideas and simple solutions
• A people-driven attitude, thriving in a team-oriented environment
• A product-minded engineer who thinks about the product and users
• Curiosity and initiative, particularly in refactoring medium to large services
• Interest or experience in infrastructure and DevOps

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the Product team to detect and prioritize requirements
• Solve production issues with a focus on candidate experience
• Build and maintain internal microservices following best practices (DDD, TDD, pair programming, refactoring, SOLID, clean architecture, clean code, event-driven architecture)
• Propose improvements to current processes and solutions
• Ship code to production every week
• Analyze and present insights into real-time results of implementations, improving them based on user feedback
• Monitor and enhance the performance of our services
• Contribute to building an inclusive, people-driven company culture

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency with any part of our technology stack: Node.js , TypeScript, Postgres, Docker, Terraform, New Relic
• Experience with AWS stack (or other cloud providers)

Benefits

• Competitive salary: Salaries paid in USD
• Stock Options: Stock Options Package as part of your compensation package
• Flexible work culture: We work towards goals & remotely, with all team members based in Argentina
• Vacations: 3 weeks of vacation
• Our team operates according to Argentine business hours and observes all national holidays
• Holiday season: Week off between Christmas and New Year's Eve
• Physical Wellness program: Partnered with Wellhub, a well-being platform offering top gyms, studios, and activities
• English Classes: Improve your English skills with our in-company teachers
• Internal library: Access free books - digital or physical - anytime