Senior Software Engineer Backend - IT Robotics & Automation

Description

Job Summary: You will be a Senior Software Engineer Backend at Mercado Livre, tackling challenging and dynamic projects to scale innovative systems by applying AI and engineering best practices to democratize e-commerce. Key Highlights: 1. Design and scale high-impact, innovative, and secure systems. 2. Work in a dynamic environment with cutting-edge technology. 3. Democratize e-commerce and financial services across Latin America. As a **Senior Software Engineer Backend** at Mercado Livre, imagine yourself leading 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 to democratize e-commerce and financial services across Latin America. **Imagine yourself leading 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 alignment across diverse teams, enabling progress on use cases and improvement of our products’ KPIs. * Contributing to the definition of scalable, 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, ensuring performance and scalability. * Taking ownership in interactions with business stakeholders and peer teams—clarifying questions and collaborating to resolve issues affecting our products and operations. **What we’re looking for in you:** * Solid experience in Java or Kotlin development and microservices. * Knowledge of messaging and topics (e.g., 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 (e.g., MySQL) and NoSQL databases. * 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.