Pismo is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Accounts squad. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services that manage core personal and business account data across our platform.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Go (Golang) and cloud-native architectures on AWS.
- Build and evolve APIs and systems that manage account lifecycle operations, including creation, updates, and migrations.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, QA, and DevOps teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Contribute to system design decisions considering scalability, security, reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
- Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in distributed systems, applying debugging tools to validate assumptions and root causes.
- Write and maintain high-quality code, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, following TDD and Agile best practices.
- Participate in code reviews, promoting cross-domain quality, clean design, and shared ownership.
- Support the continuous improvement of developer experience, documentation, and API contracts.
- Leverage event-driven architectures and messaging solutions to build resilient and asynchronous workflows.
- Actively contribute to squad-level discussions, sharing insights on emerging technologies, architecture patterns, and engineering standards.
What We're Looking For
- Must be based in Brazil.
- Proficiency in English at B2 level or above.
- 4+ years of relevant professional experience in software development.
- Strong experience designing and developing backend services using Go (Golang) or other general-purpose languages like Java, C#, or C++.
- Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, API versioning, and contract-first design.
- Experience working with AWS or other major cloud providers, applying best practices for performance and reliability.
- Knowledge of microservices architecture patterns, including distributed transactions and race condition handling.
- Familiarity with event-driven systems using tools such as SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kafka, Redis, or NoSQL datastores.
- Practical experience with relational and non-relational databases, such as MySQL, DynamoDB, and MongoDB.
- Proficient with Docker and Kubernetes, including containerized application deployment and orchestration.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools such as Jenkins, Codefresh, ArgoCD, Artifactory, and Git.
- Strong understanding of unit testing, integration testing, and system integrity testing.
- Solid knowledge of Unix/Linux environments and command-line tools.
- Familiarity with Agile and Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to Have
- Experience working on high-scale, customer-facing platforms or critical systems.
- Exposure to distributed systems handling large volumes of data and traffic.
- Knowledge of observability practices, including monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
- Experience contributing to architectural discussions and influencing engineering standards across teams.
Technical Stack
- Go (Golang)
- AWS
- REST APIs
- SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kafka, Redis
- MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB
- Docker, Kubernetes
- Jenkins, Codefresh, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Git
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Accounts squad within a company of 500+ employees. The role involves close collaboration with Product, Architecture, QA, and DevOps teams.
Work Mode
This is a remote position, open to candidates located in Brazil.
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
