Mid-Level Backend Engineer

São Paulo-SP, Brazil or Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil

Who We Are

In 2021, Poatek was acquired by WillowTree, an award-winning digital product consultancy recognized as one of the fastest growing and best places to work in the United States. Now a [TELUS International company](https://www.willowtreeapps.com/insights/a-letter-from-willowtree- president-tobias-dengel), with offices across the globe, we continue to partner with the world’s leading brands, such as the NBA, Capital One, HBO, PepsiCo, Domino’s and more, to design, build, and transform their digital products and strategies. We’re looking to grow our Poatek offices in Brazil with top talent excited to collaborate with team members across the globe to deliver innovative solutions for our clients.

Location and Flexibility

This is a hybrid role, which we’ve termed Work from Near (WFN). You’ll work on-site from either our São Paulo or Porto Alegre office at least three days a week and have the flexibility to work remotely for two days a week. Our WFN culture is designed to foster in-person innovation, collaboration, and connection with team members local and visiting from other global offices.

The Opportunity

Poatek is hiring for empathetic, curious engineers to join our growing team. We work in a dynamic and fulfilling atmosphere, helping our clients’ ideas come to life by building robust mobile and web applications. Our backend technology stack varies by project, so we value flexibility and willingness to learn. Our goal is to build amazing solutions for our clients, and our backend implementations are a crucial part of how we deliver on that promise.

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.

**Responsibilities **

• Work closely with other engineers, designers, and our clients to work through requirements and solve problems to build great software
• Demonstrate strong software development fundamentals with an eye for design and architecture
• Have professional programming experience— we’re thinking at least 3-5 years
• Explore and advocate for Software Engineering best practices
• Embody a growth mindset to continuously learn new technologies and hone your craft
• Self-aware of limitations, yet curious to learn new solutions and receptive to constructive feedback from teammates
• Thoughtful about communication with others, celebrating differences and unique contributions
• Take ownership of your work by meeting deadlines, anticipating delays, and raising issues appropriately

Qualifications

• Are driven by curiosity and enthusiastic about learning new technologies
• Are motivated by solving problems and finding creative solutions
• Believe in autonomy and taking initiative
• Have professional programming experience — we’re thinking 3–5 years
• Have the ability to write code that is durable, secure, scalable, always up and running
• Have in-depth experience with one server-side programming language — such as Java, Kotlin or other JVM languages; C# or other .NET languages; Node.js; Python, Go, and perhaps a breadth in others
• Have in-depth experience working with relational and/or no SQL 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
• Experience writing apps for Azure, AWS, GCP, CloudFoundry, Heroku, SalesForce, MuleSoft or other cloud providers
• Developing with Console; CLI; to build/develop cloud resources
• A deep understanding of how to design RESTful APIs optimized for responsive, interactive mobile experiences

Bonus Points

• Strong appreciation for CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI) and experience setting up deployment pipelines for your platform
• Have experience with the concepts of “infrastructure as code" - such as CloudFormation; Terraform; Azure Resource Manager
• Familiarity with building highly available and scalable systems
  • Worker/Message queues
  • Pub/Sub
• Observability such as monitoring and logging
• Platform migration from on-premise solutions to cloud based solutions
• Have experience blending authentication and authorization flows into API services
• Familiarity with one CMS - EpiServer; dotCMS; AEM;
• You have code samples or a GitHub account to share and while you’re there, check us out!

Why Poatek?

What We Offer:

• Be part of an innovative consultancy with a human-centered and culture with opportunities for ownership and professional growth
• Competitive salary and benefits package (annual bonus)
• Opportunity to work on innovative agile projects with other high-performing, passionate team members from all over the globe (international travel opportunities)
• Collaborative work environment that encourages continuous learning and professional development (including English classes, support in national and international courses,
• Flexible work hours and autonomy
• Voucher for health activities, food allowance, in-office snacks, drinks, and games

If you love IT as much as we do, we look forward to meeting you!

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