Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Wellhub, a corporate wellness platform, as a Staff Backend Software Engineer in Brazil. This role involves working on complex projects related to Identity, Account, and Privacy services, including adapting multi-region login services, developing audit log architecture, and optimizing service resource usage. You will design and develop APIs and workers, implement testing standards, configure infrastructure, create load test plans, and help resolve incidents. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and mentoring junior engineers are also key responsibilities. The ideal candidate possesses strong backend development experience with Java/Kotlin or Golang, along with expertise in RESTful APIs, software architecture, cloud computing, and SQL technologies. Wellhub offers a comprehensive benefits package, including flexible work options, paid time off, parental leave, and access to wellness resources.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience
• Focus on making things right and better at every opportunity
• Solid experience with RESTful APIs written in Java/ Kotlin + Spring or Golang
• Solid Software Architecture knowledge (Event driven architectures, serverless)
• Solid Software quality and test automation mindset
• Cloud computing (AWS) and Cloud Native (K8s) experience
• Experience with SQL technology such as PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Experience with microservices and high volume distributed systems
• You have exceptional communication skills that enable you to work effectively with diverse teams located across different countries
• Advanced English skills and can clearly articulate ideas when speaking to groups in English

Responsibilities

• Design and develop APIs and workers to interface with various other services in the Wellhub ecosystem, ensuring APIs are secure, scalable, and performant
• Consistently follow best practices and they can stand up for technical decisions in code review and design feedback
• Helping design and implement testing standards grounded in best practices
• Helping to configure and fine-tune infrastructure components to meet the specific needs of each application, working closely with SREs
• Create load test plans and execute them to understand and improve services' performance, resources usage and costs according to each use case
• Help solve incidents by joining war rooms, troubleshooting, measuring impact, implementing hotfixes, writing post-mortems, planning and helping executing actions derived from post-mortems
• Help analyze service alerts and monitor engineering metrics on daily-basis
• Work closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, and other engineers
• Communicate technical concepts and project progress effectively to non-technical stakeholders
• Help mentor less senior engineers and guide them when necessary
• 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
• 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

• WELLHUB: 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
• WELLNESS: Health, dental, and life insurance
• FLEXIBLE WORK: 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
• FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE: 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
• PAID TIME OFF: 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
• PAID PARENTAL LEAVE: 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
• CAREER GROWTH: Outstanding opportunities for personal and career growth. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development
• CULTURE: 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. Find more info on our careers page !