Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable Microservices & Cloud

Univision Communications, Inc; Ciudad de México; On-site; MXN 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

TelevisaUnivision is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design and evolve scalable backend services powering its ViX platform across the Americas. You will collaborate with product, architecture, DevOps, SRE, QA, and security to deliver reliable, low-latency services at internet scale.

You will own backend components end-to-end, mentor engineers, drive best practices, and contribute to CI/CD, observability, and platform modernization.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional backend experience in production systems.
• Strong design of distributed systems and scalable services.
• Proficient in at least one modern backend language (Go/Java/Python/C#).
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly scalable backend services and microservices.
• Develop secure, high-performance RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services.
• Write clean, well-tested code with unit/integration testing.
• Design distributed systems for high traffic, low latency, high availability.
• Optimize performance across services, databases, caching, messaging, and cloud.
• Lead architecture reviews and influence technical direction.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs / gRPC

Go / Java / Python / C#

Cloud platforms (GCP & AWS)

Docker / Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS)

Git

Job description

TelevisaUnivision is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design and evolve scalable backend services powering its ViX platform across the Americas. You will collaborate with product, architecture, DevOps, SRE, QA, and security to deliver reliable, low-latency services at internet scale.

You will own backend components end-to-end, mentor engineers, drive best practices, and contribute to CI/CD, observability, and platform modernization.