Senior Backend Software Engineer, Python

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🕒 May 21

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Afya

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5001 - 10000 employees

📚 Education

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🧬 Biotechnology

Education • Healthcare Insurance • Biotechnology

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 multidisciplinary teams for agile deliveries: work side by side with backend, frontend and cloud teams to ensure solutions are implemented efficiently and aligned with requirements; • Ensure platform performance and stability: design and implement secure APIs and integrations, and perform automated monitoring and testing to ensure platform data and processes remain consistent, fast and available in all situations; • Implement automated tests to ensure code reliability and quality; • Monitor and optimize application performance in production; • Actively participate in technical decisions and the evolution of the system architecture; • Contribute to improving the infrastructure, architecture and performance of existing systems and microservices; • Help enhance the development experience for teams; • Foster a culture of technical excellence: be obsessed with quality and agile development; • Reflect on, validate ideas and help delight our customers; • Be responsible for continuous daily development and ensure the quality we strive for.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience in Python, with emphasis on frameworks such as Django and FastAPI for building scalable, maintainable APIs and web systems; • Proficiency with Git and organized commit history, ensuring traceability and delivery quality; • Strong ability to support teammates' development and communicate technical decisions clearly and objectively; • Broad understanding of development processes and agile workflows, with deep knowledge of the application lifecycle and integration with other areas (front-end, QA, DevOps); • Advanced knowledge of project architecture, design patterns and backend development best practices, prioritizing code readability and testability; • Experience with relational databases, Django ORM, migrations and query optimization for high performance; • Knowledge of unit, integration and E2E testing using tools like Pytest, unittest, Playwright, ensuring quality and reliability; • Familiarity with CI/CD, containerization (Docker), automated deployments and monitoring in cloud environments; • Strong ability to influence, engage and resolve conflicts constructively.

🏖️ Benefits

• Meal allowance / meal voucher; • Flexible working hours and arrangements (for Remote positions); • Transportation allowance (for Hybrid or On-site positions); • Profit Sharing (PLR); • Multi-benefits: flexible benefit via Flash Card to use as you prefer; • 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 information for mother and baby health with a network of accredited nurses; • Partnership with SESC in your region (varied programming in education, health, culture, leisure and assistance); • Birthday Day Off (one day off to take on your birthday or during your birthday month); • Platform with a variety of courses to improve your knowledge (UCA); • Language school (AIA); • Leadership development program; • Mentoring for Afya Women (MMA); • Discounts on undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Afya's educational units.