Senior Backend Developer

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🕒 April 12

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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

• Develop and maintain backend services using modern technologies (e.g., Python, Go, or Node.js); • Build distributed systems using messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and microservices architecture; • Provide technical leadership on critical projects, ensuring solution quality, performance, and resilience; • Actively participate in technical rituals such as code reviews and architecture discussions; • Design and evolve scalable, sustainable architectures, balancing performance, cost, security, and availability trade-offs; • Work on projects with multiple integrations (external APIs, legacy systems, billing, authentication, etc.); • Collaborate with Product teams to make technical decisions and define solutions; • Ensure engineering best practices, including automated testing, observability, and continuous deployment; • Operate in high-availability, mission-critical environments.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong expertise in modern backend development with at least one primary language (e.g., Python, Go, or Node.js); • Experience with distributed systems, messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and service-oriented/microservices architectures; • Knowledge of modern infrastructure: Docker, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring/logging, and continuous deployment; • Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis); • Ability to make technical decisions considering performance, scalability, cost, and security trade-offs; • Hands-on experience developing backend systems with modern stacks (FastAPI, Django, Express, Echo, Fiber, etc.); • Leadership in projects with multiple integrations and technical dependencies (e.g., external APIs, billing, authentication, legacy systems); • Experience with high-availability or mission-critical products; • Ability to design sustainable architectural solutions and guide technical decisions together with Product teams.

🏖️ 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 psychologist and nutritionist consultations); • Health and dental plan; • Life insurance; • Extended parental leave (up to 6 months for mothers and 20 days for fathers); • Rede D'Or: support and important information for mothers and babies through a network of accredited nurses; • Partnership with your local SESC (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); • Learning platform with a variety of courses (UCA); • Language academy (AIA); • Leadership development program; • Mentoring for Women at Afya (MMA); • Discounts on undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Afya's educational institutions.