MercadoLibre

1 week ago

Senior Software Engineer Backend

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Job Summary

Design, build, and evolve critical backend services for the Checkout flow, ensuring availability, performance, resilience, and quality for a major Marketplace architecture. Work across domains like Payments, Fraud, Shipping, Discounts, Cart, and Orders with end-to-end ownership. Use GenAI to accelerate development (tests, documentation, debugging, code reviews) while maintaining rigorous technical judgment. Participate in production monitoring, incident analysis, and continuous improvement, impacting conversion, GMV, and user experience at peak traffic.

Location: Chile

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Design, construct, and evolve critical backend services for the Checkout flow, ensuring availability, performance, resilience, and quality.
•Develop solutions that integrate multiple domains (Payments, Fraud, Shipping, Discounts, Cart, Orders) with end-to-end ownership.
•Use GenAI to accelerate development tasks such as code analysis, test generation, documentation, debugging, migrations, and assisted code reviews.
•Participate in production design, implementation, monitoring, incident analysis, and continuous improvement of mission-critical services.
•Collaborate cross-team with product, business, frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure to resolve complex problems.

Key Requirements

•Solid backend experience with Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot, including API design and clean architecture practices.
•Hands-on testing automation and good practices for distributed systems.
•Experience with high-scale services focused on resiliency, performance, observability, error handling, and production operations.
•Strong affinity for generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, MeliGPT, Gemini, GitHub Copilot) used to improve development speed and quality.
•Ability to prioritize code quality: understand, review, validate, and maintain critical code even when parts are AI-assisted.

Skills:OwnershipCross-team collaborationClear communicationAttention to code qualityProblem solving

Tech Stack:JavaKotlinSpring BootAPIsTesting automationDistributed systemsGenAIChatGPTClaudeMeliGPTGeminiGitHub CopilotJavaScriptAngularJSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache MavenBootstrapAuthenticationNET Application ServerCode reviews

Company Brief

MercadoLibre

Operates Latin America's leading e‑commerce marketplace and fintech ecosystem, offering online buying and selling, classifieds, payment processing, credit, and logistics services across multiple countries in the region.

Industry: Online Marketplaces

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Founded: 1999

Glassdoor: 3.8

Website LinkedIn

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MercadoLibre

1 week ago

Senior Software Engineer Backend

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 18 hours agoStatus: Live

Reposted: first listed 18 hours ago

Job Summary

Location: Chile

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Design, construct, and evolve critical backend services for the Checkout flow, ensuring availability, performance, resilience, and quality.
•Develop solutions that integrate multiple domains (Payments, Fraud, Shipping, Discounts, Cart, Orders) with end-to-end ownership.
•Use GenAI to accelerate development tasks such as code analysis, test generation, documentation, debugging, migrations, and assisted code reviews.
•Participate in production design, implementation, monitoring, incident analysis, and continuous improvement of mission-critical services.
•Collaborate cross-team with product, business, frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure to resolve complex problems.

Key Requirements

•Solid backend experience with Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot, including API design and clean architecture practices.
•Hands-on testing automation and good practices for distributed systems.
•Experience with high-scale services focused on resiliency, performance, observability, error handling, and production operations.
•Strong affinity for generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, MeliGPT, Gemini, GitHub Copilot) used to improve development speed and quality.
•Ability to prioritize code quality: understand, review, validate, and maintain critical code even when parts are AI-assisted.

Skills:OwnershipCross-team collaborationClear communicationAttention to code qualityProblem solving

Company Brief

MercadoLibre

Industry: Online Marketplaces

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Founded: 1999

Glassdoor: 3.8

Website LinkedIn