Software Engineer Backend

MercadoLibre
São Paulo
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: []

Project and scale secure, high-impact backend systems in a dynamic environment. You’ll analyze, develop, and maintain efficient services; ensure end-to-end technical quality; reduce production operational cost; and maintain stability and observability through alerts, war-room participation, metrics, tracing, and structured logging. The role also includes evolving application architecture and designing distributed architectures with advanced patterns, backed by automated testing for reliability and performance.

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MercadoLibre
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Software Engineer Backend

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Job Summary

Project and scale secure, high-impact backend systems in a dynamic environment. You’ll analyze, develop, and maintain efficient services; ensure end-to-end technical quality; reduce production operational cost; and maintain stability and observability through alerts, war-room participation, metrics, tracing, and structured logging. The role also includes evolving application architecture and designing distributed architectures with advanced patterns, backed by automated testing for reliability and performance.
Location: São Paulo
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Analyze, develop, and maintain highly efficient, reliable, and scalable services
  • •Ensure end-to-end technical quality of developments with a top-to-bottom view
  • •Minimize operational costs of solutions in production
  • •Ensure system stability and observability, creating alerts and participating in war rooms when needed
  • •Design and evolve distributed architectures and testing/observability strategies using automated tests, metrics, and logs

Key Requirements

  • •Knowledge of Hexagonal Architecture / Clean Architecture and DDD
  • •Experience with distributed concurrency and parallelism scenarios
  • •Experience with relational and non-relational databases
  • •Strong observability experience, including metrics, distributed tracing, and structured logging in production
  • •Experience with Java/Kotlin; React knowledge is a plus
Experience:Distributed systemsBackend engineeringE-commerceFinancial servicesArtificial intelligence (AI)
Tech Stack:JavaKotlinReactClean ArchitectureDDDDistributed tracingStructured loggingRelational databasesNon-relational databasesObservabilityAutomated testing

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
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