Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Description

**Our Way of Working in the Team:** -------------------------------- Transform your career with iFood! We are a Brazilian technology company and a reference in Latin America. Through innovative solutions, we connect thousands of restaurants to millions of consumers daily, with an average of 100 million orders per month. Beyond food delivery, we also operate iFood Market, iFood Pharmacy, and iFood Pet. We also have iFood Pago, our Fintech, which includes iFood Benefits — iFood’s meal and food vouchers — and iFood Pago itself, the bank for restaurants. Join us and become part of a team that is always at the forefront with cutting-edge technology and constant innovation. As a Staff Software Engineer on the CI Platform team, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing the tools and systems that support our Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines, build systems, and platform infrastructure. You will work to ensure our engineers can deliver software quickly, reliably, and securely — directly contributing to improvements in build times, test automation, and the robustness of our development workflows. You will apply your strong technical expertise in software development and CI/CD architecture to build scalable, high-performance solutions, actively collaborating with the team to solve complex challenges and drive engineering excellence. **Your Daily Menu:** ------------------------ * + CI Platform Development and Optimization: Design, implement, and maintain critical components of CI pipelines, build systems, and SCM tools (GitLab), ensuring their performance, scalability, and reliability. * Continuous Improvement of Developer Experience: Identify and implement solutions to reduce build times, enhance test automation (unit, regression, load), and optimize code review workflows. * Resolution of Complex Problems: Investigate and resolve complex technical incidents and issues related to CI/CD infrastructure and platform, applying your expertise to unblock the team. * Technical Collaboration: Work closely with DevEx, SRE, and other engineering teams to integrate solutions, share knowledge, and solve cross-functional technical challenges. * Engineering Excellence: Actively contribute to design reviews, ensure adherence to coding and architectural best practices, and promote technical quality across the team’s deliverables. * Technical Mentorship: Share knowledge and experience with more junior engineers, contributing to the team’s technical growth. **Ingredients We’re Looking For:** ------------------------------ * Proven experience as a Software Engineer (Senior level), with focus on CI/CD systems, build pipelines, and source code management (SCM). * Proficiency in software development, with hands-on experience building and maintaining platform or infrastructure tools. * In-depth knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery concepts. * Ability to diagnose and resolve complex problems in distributed environments. * Capacity to influence and collaborate technically with other engineering teams. * Proactive mindset in identifying improvement opportunities and delivering high-impact solutions. **To Enhance the Flavor:** ------------------------- * Experience with languages such as Java/Kotlin or Go (Golang). * Practical knowledge of GitLab CI, Bazel, Gradle, or other build systems and automation tools. * Familiarity with DORA metrics and developer productivity concepts. * Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration. **About Us** ------------- At iFood, we believe diversity drives \#Innovation and delivers \#OutstandingResults. Therefore, we do not discriminate against candidates with disabilities, gender, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, age, origin, family composition, or appearance. We have volunteer-led groups of foodlovers focused on Race, Gender, LGBTQI\+, and People with Disabilities (PcD). We aim to be the company where people choose to grow and contribute to realizing dreams — \#AllTogether. **What Are You Hungry For?** ------------------------- We, the FoodLovers, are hungry for innovation and results. We constantly strive to do our best, think "outside the box," and act with agility and responsibility! We are hungry for diversity, knowledge, and sharing. We work in a highly versatile environment. What makes our special recipe? Our people! Come be part of it