Description
Job Summary:
Design and scale innovative and secure systems in a dynamic environment, applying engineering best practices and continuous learning to democratize e-commerce and financial services.
Key Highlights:
1. Undertake challenging and dynamic projects
2. Work with cutting-edge technology and AI models
3. Contribute to defining scalable architectures
As a **Software Engineer Backend** at Mercado Livre, imagine yourself undertaking challenging and dynamic projects. You will design and scale innovative and secure systems that solve real-world, high-impact problems. You will work in a dynamic environment with cutting-edge technology, applying engineering best practices, AI models, and continuous learning — all with the purpose of democratizing e-commerce and financial services across Latin America.
**Imagine yourself undertaking projects and being responsible for:**
* Participating in all stages of high-impact product development — from requirements analysis to proposing solutions that deliver both technical and business value.
* Supporting the establishment of agreements and alignments with diverse teams, enabling progress on use cases and improvement of KPIs for our products.
* Contributing to the definition of scalable and highly available architectures, building and executing tests, and monitoring technical and business performance metrics.
* Working with high-volume transaction and data systems, using relational and NoSQL databases to ensure performance and scalability.
* Taking ownership in interactions with business stakeholders and peer teams — clarifying doubts and collaborating to resolve issues impacting our products and operations.
**What we’re looking for in you?**
* Solid experience developing with Java or Kotlin, and experience with microservices.
* Knowledge of messaging and topics (Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar), including producers/consumers, partitioning, DLQ, and idempotency.
* Proficiency in REST APIs: contract design, versioning, best practices, documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger), and testing.
* Experience with relational databases (MySQL) and NoSQL.
* Experience with SRE/observability tools: New Relic, Kibana, Datadog, and Elasticsearch.
**Are you excited to leave your mark on Latin America’s technology landscape?**
Apply now and join our purpose!
Hybrid work model. Office locations: Osasco/SP or Florianópolis/SC.