Backend jobs in Brazil

TELUS Digital — where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.

With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across eight core service areas: Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Business Operations Modernization, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering.

From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are — all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.

This is a hybrid role. This model requires the ability to work in a hybrid mode from one of our offices in São Paulo (2 times/ week or 8 days/ month) or Porto Alegre (3 times/ week or 12 days/ month). Our WFN culture is designed to foster in-person innovation, collaboration, and connection with team members local and visiting from other global offices.

We are hiring for an enthusiastic Senior Backend Engineer. You will be responsible for designing and building scalable and resilient backend systems that power our applications. Leveraging your expertise in cloud technologies, databases, and API development, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust solutions that meet the needs of our clients and users.

We understand our responsibility to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive place within the tech industry, while pushing to make our industry more representative. Because of this responsibility, we need candidates who value diversity and inclusion through their work, team collaboration, or mentorship. So in your cover letter, we encourage you to reflect on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Confidently deliver high-quality software by applying critical thinking to products, requirements, and processes
• Partner closely with clients to influence technical product decisions and business goals
• You’ll continually stay up to date with the landscape of software engineering best practices, tools, and frameworks
• Have extensive professional programming experience— we’re thinking at least 12+ years
• Understanding of various software architectures and can adapt/compose solutions to unique problems with sustainable and reusable solutions
• Help mentor and coach a project team towards shared goals and outcomes
• Navigate difficult conversations by providing constructive feedback to teams and clients
• You’ll identify obstacles to ensure quality, improve our user experience and how we build software
• Self-aware of limitations, yet curious to learn new solutions while being receptive to constructive feedback from teammates
• You’ll guide your team to understand and work through changing priorities by bringing positive energy
• Communicate and simplify complex problems in order to foster understanding across multidisciplinary teams
• Design and develop 12-factor apps that can efficiently scale in modern cloud environments.
• Work with relational and non-relational databases to design efficient data models and optimize data access.
• Design and develop APIs that are well-documented, reliable, and consumable by various clients.
• Troubleshoot problems in existing code and systems, identify root causes, and autonomously implement remedial actions.

• Are driven by curiosity and enthusiastic about learning new technologies
• Are motivated by solving problems and finding creative solutions
• Have relevant professional programming experience, writing high-quality code from scratch
• Inspire others to write code that is durable, secure, scalable, always up and running
• Have in-depth experience with Node.js is a must have
• Have in-depth experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases. This could be PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB, or another type of document-database. This includes experience with schema design, indexing, querying, and performance tuning
• Are eager to share your knowledge with teammates through mentorship, code reviews and pair programming sessions
• Have experience writing apps for Azure, AWS, GCP, CloudFoundry, Heroku, SalesForce, Mulesoft and/or other cloud providers
• Are well versed in using Cloud Provider utilities such as CLI tools and Consoles (Azure Portal, AWS Console)
• Have experience developing RESTful APIs and/or Graphql APIs
• Possess strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Effectively communicate system architecture and development decisions to clients and teammates
• Strong appreciation for CI/CD (e.g. CircleCI, TeamCity, AzureDevops) and experience setting up deployment pipelines

At TELUS Digital, you’ll work with world-class brands like FOX, HBO, PepsiCo, and Domino's, building transformative digital products that impact millions. Our global reach allows you to collaborate with diverse, international teams, solving complex problems and delivering tech-driven solutions that matter.

We thrive on engineering excellence, using the latest technologies in cloud computing, AI, machine learning, DevOps, microservices architecture, and data engineering. Our teams embrace Agile methodologies, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and a DevOps-first mindset to deliver solutions at scale.

In addition to being part of an international and innovative consultancy company, you will have:

• A Global Innovation Hub: Be part of an international consultancy at the forefront of technology
• Work-Life Harmony: Enjoy flexible hours and autonomy to balance your professional and personal life
• Cutting-Edge Tech Playground: Dive into the latest technologies and shape the future of digital solutions
• Prestigious Partnerships: Collaborate with world-renowned brands, making a real impact in the market
• Growth-Centric Environment: Thrive in our collaborative ecosystem with a clear career development path
• Global Exposure: Embrace optional international travel opportunities to broaden your horizons

Some of our benefits:

• Health and dental plan
• Life insurance
• Monthly voucher for meals, culture, education, health and mobility
• Child care assistance and more!

At TELUS Digital, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All aspects of employment, including the decision to hire and promote, are based on applicants’ qualifications, merits, competence and performance without regard to any characteristic related to diversity.

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