Senior Backend Engineer

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🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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📦 Logistics

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📣 Marketing

💰 $60M Series B on 2021-11

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CarOnSale is an innovative marketplace aimed at making automotive wholesale frictionless across Europe. Through their digital platform, they connect buyers and sellers, striving for a personalized and profitable experience. The company prides itself on ambition, reliability, and setting new standards in the remarketing of used cars. CarOnSale's commitment to digitization positions them as a leader in the automotive wholesale industry.

📋 Description

• Own backend development end to end, including technology selection, architecture design, and implementation of features that carry platform performance and scale • Build AI-first using coding agents, LLMs, and AI-assisted development as part of the daily workflow • Set code quality benchmarks, development practices, and CI/CD pipelines, agreed cross-functionally and enforced in review • Mentor engineers, share knowledge, and raise backend engineering standards • Challenge existing ways of working and propose better approaches • Design and scale backend systems supporting 40,000 buyers, more than 20 countries, and 130,000 vehicles sold annually through the auction backend

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in software engineering, 5+ of them focused on backend • Deep TypeScript proficiency, with strong Node.js, NestJS and PostgreSQL experience • Proven mentorship track record: you have coached engineers and raised the standard around you • Solid command of Git, Docker and CI/CD pipelines • Comfortable in Scrum or Kanban, working with JIRA and Confluence • English at C1 level or above, written and spoken, for daily work with an international team • AI-native working style: you use AI tools in your own development workflow and have real judgement about where they accelerate you and where they don't • Available to start your day at 7:00 Brazil local time • Nice to have: WebSockets or other real-time systems • Nice to have: Search frameworks such as Elasticsearch or Lucene • Nice to have: Automotive or B2B trading background

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote from anywhere in Brazil • Architecture ownership from day one, not after a probation period • An engineering culture where AI tooling is embedded in how the work gets done • Direct access to the European engineering team, not a client-vendor layer in between • Backing behind the platform you build on: founded 2018, 400 people, €70M Series C in July 2025 led by Northzone and HV Capital

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