Senior Backend Developer

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🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Afya

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5001 - 10000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📚 Education

Healthcare • Consulting • Education

Afya is the largest hub of education and healthcare solutions in Brazil, dedicated to enhancing medical training and practice. With a comprehensive portfolio that includes undergraduate programs, continued medical education, and digital healthcare solutions, Afya aims to support healthcare professionals at all stages of their careers. The company leverages technology to deliver high-quality medical education and has seen substantial growth in digital educational resources, especially during the pandemic, positioning itself as a leader in the healthtech sector.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, designers, front-end developers, and product teams to ensure efficient deliveries aligned with business and user needs • Design and implement secure APIs and integrations, ensuring performance, stability, and consistency of data and processes • Perform monitoring and automated testing to keep services fast, reliable, and available • Participate in defining the technical roadmap, anticipating bottlenecks and proposing solutions • Contribute to a culture of technical excellence, quality, and agile development • Validate ideas and continuously contribute to the evolution of the product and customer experience • Take ownership of the ongoing development of solutions and the quality of deliverables

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree completed • Proven experience with Python, with an emphasis on Django, Restless, DRF, and FastAPI • Familiarity with asynchronous processing, microservices architecture, and scalable APIs • Knowledge of AWS, including S3, SQS, SNS, RDS, CloudFront, and Lambda Functions • Experience with Serverless Framework • Experience with Git and collaborative development practices, including pull requests, code reviews, branching, and conflict resolution • Broad understanding of development processes and agile workflows • Understanding of the application lifecycle and integration with front-end, QA, and DevOps teams • Advanced knowledge of project architecture, system design, design patterns, and backend development best practices • Experience with relational databases, Django ORM, migrations, and query optimization • Knowledge of unit, integration, and E2E testing using Pytest, unittest, Playwright, and mocking of external services • Familiarity with CI/CD, Docker, automated deployments, and monitoring in cloud environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Meal and food allowance • Flexible working hours and work arrangements (for remote positions) • Transportation allowance (for hybrid or on-site positions) • Profit-sharing bonus • Flexible benefits: flexible allowance via Flash Card to use as you choose • Gympass / Wellhub • Psicologia Viva (online platform for consultations with psychologists and nutritionists) • Health and dental insurance • Life insurance • Extended parental leave (up to 6 months for mothers and 20 days for fathers) • Rede D'Or: support and important health information for mothers and babies through a network of accredited nurses • Partnership with the SESC unit in your region • Birthday Day Off • Platform offering a variety of courses to enhance your knowledge (UCA) • Language academy (AIA) • Leadership development program • Afya Women's Mentoring (MMA) • Discounts on undergraduate and graduate courses at Afya educational institutions • Premium subscription to Afya iClinic and Afya Whitebook (an additional benefit for physician professors)