Backend Specialist

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🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Caju

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

💳 Fintech

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

💰 $4M Undisclosed on 2025-01

Fintech • HR Tech • SaaS

Caju is a Brazilian payment institution and HR platform that centralizes employee benefits, expense management and HR processes in a single, integrated solution. Authorized by the Banco Central as an institution of payment, Caju offers cards and a mobile app, multibenefits administration (CLT, PAT, flexible), expense and reimbursement workflows, mobility and wellbeing services, and acts as a banking correspondent for payroll lending. The company focuses on B2B customers—serving small to large employers—to simplify HR operations, improve employee engagement and provide financial-services features with regulatory compliance.

📋 Description

• Guide the technical vision for one or more products and projects over the medium to long term • Ensure scalable, resilient architecture aligned with business and technology objectives • Define the technical vision for products and lead cross-team initiatives and foundational improvements • Design and define the architecture of complex systems, considering scalability, security, and fault tolerance • Evaluate and recommend new technologies through cost-benefit and impact analyses • Participate in priority projects from design through implementation, launch, and refinement • Lead the decomposition of monoliths into microservices and coordinate the transition across teams • Define and document architectural standards for APIs, service-to-service communication, and data persistence • Reduce platform complexity and raise code quality standards • Embed security from the outset (security by design), identifying and mitigating risks • Manage risks and technical debt by breaking projects into smaller releases • Provide technical expertise during critical moments and anticipate potential issues • Automate and improve development practices, delivering consistent releases without negatively impacting users

🎯 Requirements

• Strategic and product-oriented mindset, connecting work to team outcomes • Influence product direction through technical and business insight • Communicate and engage effectively with teams, stakeholders, partners, and customers • Ability to involve the right people in gathering data and knowledge • Ability to build bridges with other teams and Staff Engineers • Leadership, consensus-building, and mentoring skills • Participate in recruiting new talent • Own the team's technical decisions • Knowledge of distributed and scalable systems architecture, including microservices, serverless, and event-driven systems • Experience with Design Patterns and Enterprise Integration Patterns • Experience modeling data for relational, NoSQL, and graph databases • Proficiency in deployment strategies, including Blue/Green and Canary deployments, as well as CI/CD pipelines • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi • Proven experience with Docker and Kubernetes • Proficiency in observability, including logs, metrics, and tracing, as well as resilience practices • Knowledge of Chaos Engineering and API Gateways • Ability to lead technical vision and influence organizational decisions • Ability to negotiate technical and business trade-offs • Assertive communication with technical and non-technical teams • Product mindset and a pragmatic approach to delivering value • Proactivity, innovation, and a focus on reducing infrastructure costs and optimizing resources

🏖️ Benefits

• Caju benefits card covering Meals, Food, Mobility, Health, Home Office, Culture, and Education • Health insurance with no co-payments (Unimed, SulAmérica, or Alice) • Zenklub, offering online consultations with therapists and coaches • Wellhub • Rosetta Stone partnership for language learning • Recharge Day (day off) • Conexa Saúde — online medical consultations • Childcare assistance • Alura partnership • Fully remote work from anywhere in Brazil • Work equipment • Growth opportunities