Senior Backend Software Engineer

TRACTIAN ??

São Paulo

On-site

BRL 180,000 - 280,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and stock options

Fully funded English / Spanish courses

30 days of paid annual leave

Education and courses stipend

Employee Giving

Trip anywhere in the world every 4 years

Up to R$1,000/mo for meals and remote work allowance

Health plan with national coverage

Dental Insurance

R$300/mo gym and sports incentive

Job summary

A tech-forward industrial solutions provider in São Paulo is seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to design and build critical backend services that power their core products. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and optimizing high-performance applications, impacting users across industries. Ideal candidates will have substantial backend development experience and a desire to shape the future of industrial technology.

Qualifications

5+ years of backend development experience with a focus on user-facing products.
Experience with event-driven applications using messaging technologies.
Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Node.js, and/or Rust.
Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Node.js, and/or Rust.
Deep understanding of microservices and distributed systems.
Experience with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain data-intensive backend services based on event-driven architecture.
Develop and maintain APIs and services for real-time monitoring.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align backend applications with product vision.
Optimize data processing workflows for performance and reliability.
Refactor systems and improve maintainability and observability.
Document architectural decisions for current and future maintainers.

Skills

Backend development experience

Event-driven applications

Programming in Go, Python, Node.js, Rust

Microservices architecture

Relational and non-relational databases

Performance optimization

Microservices

Databases

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

BullMQ

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

MongoDB

ScyllaDB

Cassandra

Job description

Overview

TRACTIAN is transforming the industrial world by empowering frontline maintenance workers to achieve more. We’ve fused cutting-edge hardware with innovative software into one powerful platform, disrupting legacy systems and delivering smarter, faster solutions for our clients. As part of our growth-stage startup, you’ll work alongside the founders, shaping the vision, products, and experiences that will define the future of industrial tech.

Engineering at TRACTIAN: the Backend Engineering team builds and scales the infrastructure powering our platform, from advanced monitoring products to our CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System). We design and develop robust systems that handle large volumes of real-time and historical data from industrial assets.

We craft and maintain data-intensive microservices, resilient APIs, and scalable ETL pipelines. Our work spans relational and non-relational database schemas, event-driven architectures, and performance optimization under high-throughput workloads. Backend Engineers work with firmware, frontend, data, and product teams to deliver features that improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and modernize industrial operations.

What you’ll do as a Backend Software Engineer: design and build critical APIs, microservices, and ETLs powering our core products, from industrial monitoring systems to our CMMS platform. You’ll evolve backend architecture to meet scale, performance, and product-excellence demands, directly impacting thousands of users across industries that rely on us to keep operations running.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain data-intensive, high-performance backend services based on an event-driven architecture.
Develop and maintain APIs and services that power real-time monitoring features and complex maintenance workflows.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure backend applications align with the overall product vision and user experience goals.
Optimize applications and data processing workflows for performance, speed, efficiency, and reliability across environments.
Continuously evolve systems through refactoring, introducing best practices, and improving maintainability and observability.
Document architectural decisions and technical implementations for current and future maintainers.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
5+ years of backend development experience with a focus on user-facing products
Experience with event-driven applications using messaging technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, BullMQ or similar
Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Node.js, and/or Rust
Deep understanding of microservices architecture and distributed system design
Proficiency with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, ClickHouse) and non-relational databases (e.g., ScyllaDB, Cassandra, MongoDB) with focus on performance and scalability
Experience building mission-critical backend services in high-growth, product-driven environments

Bonus points