Staff Backend Software Engineer - Logistics

The role

This person will influence team culture by promoting deep technical analysis to optimize systems. They will foster innovation and act as a technical reference for the platform team.

What you will do

• Promote deep technical analysis to identify system optimization opportunities.
• Apply software engineering best practices for scalability, resilience, and performance.
• Propose and experiment with new technologies and methodologies.
• Identify areas for improvement.
• Handle conflicts in a healthy way.
• Act as a technical reference for the platform team.

Required qualifications

• Proven experience in technical leadership and software development in high complexity environments.
• Deep knowledge in distributed systems architecture.
• Proven history of innovation and solving complex problems in distributed systems.
• Ability to influence and collaborate with different stakeholders.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Knowledge of queues, topics, and asynchronous communication between services (SQS, SNS, Kafka, ...).
• Knowledge in Cloud (mainly AWS) and scalability vision.
• Linux, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes and Docker.
• Solid knowledge in Java, Kotlin or Rust

Nice to have

• Experience with AI and machine learning

About the company

iFood is a Brazilian technology company and a reference in Latin America. It connects thousands of restaurants to millions of consumers through food delivery, Market, Pharmacy, Pet, and Fintech solutions.