This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Backend Software Engineer based in Brazil.
This role sits at the core of a high-scale travel commerce and fintech platform powering booking experiences for millions of users worldwide. You will help evolve a distributed backend ecosystem that enables global partners—such as banks, airlines, and fintech companies—to launch and scale travel products with speed and reliability. The work goes beyond traditional backend engineering, focusing on building intelligent systems that connect user behavior, partner ecosystems, and real-time commerce decisions. You will operate in a low-process, high-ownership environment where engineering decisions directly influence product and business outcomes. The role blends deep systems thinking with modern AI-assisted development practices, including orchestration of agents and automated workflows. You will work closely with senior engineers and product stakeholders to define scalable architecture and ship end-to-end features across a rapidly growing global platform.
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Backend Software Engineer based in Brazil.
This role sits at the core of a high-scale travel commerce and fintech platform powering booking experiences for millions of users worldwide. You will help evolve a distributed backend ecosystem that enables global partners—such as banks, airlines, and fintech companies—to launch and scale travel products with speed and reliability. The work goes beyond traditional backend engineering, focusing on building intelligent systems that connect user behavior, partner ecosystems, and real-time commerce decisions. You will operate in a low-process, high-ownership environment where engineering decisions directly influence product and business outcomes. The role blends deep systems thinking with modern AI-assisted development practices, including orchestration of agents and automated workflows. You will work closely with senior engineers and product stakeholders to define scalable architecture and ship end-to-end features across a rapidly growing global platform.
Accountabilities:
- Design, build, and evolve scalable backend systems supporting a multi-tenant global travel commerce platform.
- Own end-to-end feature delivery, from backend architecture through partner-facing product surfaces.
- Develop and optimize distributed systems primarily using Scala and cloud-based infrastructure (GCP).
- Create and improve system patterns that enable faster, safer shipping for both engineers and AI-assisted workflows.
- Build intelligent backend capabilities that connect user behavior, offers, and partner ecosystems in real time.
- Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to define roadmap priorities and technical direction.
- Write clear technical documentation, design specs, and contribute to asynchronous decision-making processes.
- Implement guardrails, observability, and feedback loops to support reliable AI-augmented development and system performance.
- 8+ years of experience in backend or distributed systems engineering roles.
- Strong expertise in Scala (or demonstrated mastery in similar backend languages with ability to ramp quickly).
- Proven experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
- Strong product thinking with a focus on user and business impact over pure technical elegance.
- Experience working with cloud platforms (preferably GCP) and scalable backend architectures.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows, including agent orchestration or automation tools.
- Ability to design systems with strong observability, reliability, and performance characteristics.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to justify trade-offs and influence technical decisions.
- Nice to have: experience in travel, fintech, or multi-tenant commerce platforms.
- Competitive salary with pre-IPO equity package.
- Fully remote work with flexible arrangements.
- Health, dental, life, and disability insurance fully covered (where applicable via employer-of-record setup).
- Monthly meal vouchers for employees based in Brazil.
- Travel stipend and flexible work allowances (home office and co-working support).
- Very generous parental leave policy.
- Entrepreneurial, high-ownership culture with strong autonomy and low bureaucracy.
- Opportunity to work on a global-scale platform serving hundreds of millions of users.