Staff Backend Developer | Remote

Description

First of all, we want to tell you a little more about who we are. Shall we? Nice to meet you, we are Aurum! We are a consolidated company in the legal software market. We use the most innovative technologies for a new way of practicing law. Our work helps thousands of lawyers to better manage their tasks and increase their productivity in their daily lives. Cool, right? **Want to know a secret? We can only do all this because we have the best people here.** And what do we call this group? \#AureasPeople. Today we are more than 200 people spread throughout Brazil, and we also count on the support of our offices in Florianópolis (SC) and São Paulo (SP). **No matter where we are, our culture is the same, always guided by our values.** By the way, with the support of such incredible people, strong values, and a great culture, we have already won the **Great Place to Work** seal 10 times, and in 2025 we were well positioned in all three rankings we participated in. **And do you know what we look for in the people who will join our Team?** We are looking for professionals who value autonomy, responsibility, teamwork, constant learning, collaboration, communication, and of course, closeness and transparency! If you identify with this type of environment, we are already starting to *match*! We consider each person on our team unique and special, so everyone is welcome; we have a safe environment for the aureas and aureas to express themselves as they are. **Within the Structural Technology team, your mission will be:** You will be the technical reference at Aurum, responsible for elevating the architectural ecosystem of Astrea, our main product, directing initiatives that serve multiple teams, translating business objectives (speed, performance, product intelligence) into sustainable engineering decisions. **Ah, an important piece of information about this position:** the work model is 100% **Remote!** **Responsibilities and attributes** **Now take a look at the main responsibilities of the position:** * Cross-team architecture and technical strategy. * Lead and evolve architectural decisions that impact more than one team with a focus on resilience. * Code critical solutions directing the team (what goes in and what goes out of the stack). * Mentor developers for market best practice standards. * Support the construction of observability and monitoring. * Interact with peer teams creating solutions for internal clients. * Engineering excellence and standards. * Define and disseminate quality standards, design patterns, security, and performance that apply to the entire technology area. * Raise the bar for Code Review, automated test coverage, and CI/CD pipelines (quality gates, semantic versioning). * Mastery of application layers (coding, architecture, observability) at a level above Senior. **Requirements and qualifications** **To participate in this selection, our expectation is that you have:** * **Technical requirements (hard skills):** Solid experience in: Java, Kotlin, Relational and Non-Relational Databases (MongoDB, DataStore, PostgreSQL), Spring Boot, AWS, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Kafka, SNS, SQS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana, Prometheus, Unit Tests, CI/CD, Amazon Kiro, Claude, Codex, New Relic. + Experience in high-availability critical systems (high-scale data and event processing). + + Deep knowledge in software architecture and domain design. + Practical experience with monitoring, observability, and system metrics, microservices evolution, API development, and integrations using asynchronous messaging. + Engineering standards (Lint, GitFlow, Clean Code, Design Patterns). + Incident management and action plan direction (post mortem). **Behavioral competencies (soft skills):** + Technical Influence: Ability to influence technical decisions with clear and assertive communication. + Assertive Communication: Skill in clear and effective communication to align expectations and negotiate deadlines with different areas (technical and business); + Organization: Strong capacity for organization, planning, and management of tasks and projects. + Systemic Thinking: ability to understand how services integrate to avoid architectural bottlenecks; + Initiative and Protagonism: in processes in the refactoring phase, the direction of this person is necessary for the identification of technical debts and architectural improvements. **It is a differential if you have:** Experience with AI platform architecture applied to product, with advanced observability (APM, tracing, SLOs); * Productivity strategies and previous experience in a Staff/Principal track in medium/large-scale SaaS products. * * Automation of development processes with AI (unit test generation, code review, spec\-driven, ADRs, and RFCs) to increase productivity (cycle time and throughput). **Additional information** **And take a look at what we offer to the aureas people:** * **Food/Meal Voucher:** R$ 1\.300 monthly on a flexible card, without payroll deduction. * **Home Office Allowance:** R$ 135.00 monthly, without payroll deduction. * **Health Plan:** Bradesco national. * **Dental Plan:** SulAmérica. * **Life Insurance.** * **Extended parental leave:** we are part of the Citizen Company Program and offer leaves that support different family formats — including adoption, same-sex couples, and single-parent families. * **Childcare Allowance:** For children up to 5 years old. * **Gympass/Wellhub:** well-being platform, focused on physical activities and integral health. It provides access to thousands of gyms, studios, live classes, and well-being apps, with just a single monthly fee; * **Conexa Saúde:** digital health platform, with various specialties. With it, the aureas people have access to 2 free psychological consultations and 2 nutritional consultations per month. * **Guapeco:** pet health plan with simple enrollment, national coverage, and reimbursements of up to 100%. * **Partnership with language school:** partnership with discounts for English and Spanish languages with OpenEnglish, Fluentia, and Instituto Cervantes, in online and in-person modalities. * **Profit and Results Participation (PLR):** if the team hits the annual goal, everyone (really!) gets a share of the profits! * **Relax Week:** We do not work on weekdays between Christmas and New Year's dates, to rest and enjoy the end of the year in the way each person prefers. * **Workplace Allowance:** in addition to lending the notebook, for a work location in your comfortable home, we provide an allowance of R$ 2\.400.00\. * **Birthday Day Off:** In the month of your birthday, you have a full day off to rest and enjoy. * **Working at a Great Place to Work:** We are one of the best companies to work for in Latin America and Brazil. * **And much more!** With a **feedback culture**, **development guilds**, PDI in onboarding**, Aurum Talks,** frequent meetings with all of Aurum, **transparency** in OKR, commemorative actions, performance evaluation, development programs, and other processes that help to develop the aureas people more and more. So, did you like it!? Then come with us :) Nice to meet you, we are **Aurum**! For more than 30 years, we have been developing technology for the next way of practicing law. With our two software products, **Astrea** and **Themis**, we impact more than 20,000 clients, from independent lawyers to legal departments. Here, we offer technology that simplifies and keeps up with the pace of each client. Our great differential is to deliver an experience of innovation and freedom also for those who are part of our team. This is because we are an environment that respects individuality and drives the development of each aurea person. Working at Aurum is having the autonomy to innovate, the freedom to grow, and being part of a team that makes everything flow with lightness. That is why we value development and strive for a learning environment, with a lot of collaborative work. PDIs, 1x1s, the Leadership Development Program, and recurring feedbacks are examples of actions that accompany the aurea person. Respect for individuality is lived through the constant strengthening of a diverse and inclusive work environment. Our more than 200 aureas people can be themselves here inside. We believe that diversity is a driver for innovation and that each representative of a diversity group strengthens us as a team. With the preferably remote work model, we manage to be an even more open space to diverse people. In this context, our physical offices, in Florianópolis and São Paulo, appear as optional complements to our culture, always open to those who want to enjoy the in-person experience. **For all this (and much more), working at Aurum is having \#aureapride in being:** * Certified by Great Place to Work (GPTW) for 10 consecutive times; * The 79th best company to work for in Latin America (top 100 small and medium companies GPTW LatAm 2025\); * The 30th best medium company to work for in Brazil (2025\); * The 5th best medium company to work for in Santa Catarina (2025\); * The 7th best technology company to work for in Brazil (2025\); * Protagonist of development and culture actions; * Co\-responsible for maintaining a safe environment for any aurea person. * Of a team with gender equity in all seniorities; Access our Culture Manifesto to know more about the aurea way of working! Get to know the portal that has been enriching the routine of thousands of lawyers! 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