At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. This remote backend engineering role focuses on building and maintaining performant backend systems, partnering across Product, Design, and QA, and leading architecture decisions to ensure scalability, simplicity, and reliability.
Software Engineer III, Backend (Remote) at Playlist
Remote - São Paulo, Brasil
More jobs at PlaylistRequirements
Experience
- Senior-level experience developing large-scale SaaS applications
- Experience designing APIs and working with microservice architecture
Skills
- Writing great code
- Solving problems
- Big-picture thinking
- Delivering value
- Automated testing
- Peer reviews
- Observability
- Elegant design
- Scalability
- Simplicity
- Iterating fast
- Empathy
- Communication
- Mentoring
- Proficiency with Kotlin, Java, .NET, C#, TypeScript, JavaScript
- Observability tools like New Relic or Kibana
- SQL and relational databases
- Agile mindset
- Software development lifecycle practices
Languages
- Portuguese
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain performant backend systems and applications that drive real-world experiences
- Partner with Product, Design, and QA to bring features to life from ideation through deployment, always iterating with the end-user in mind
- Champion engineering best practices—automated testing, peer reviews, observability, and elegant design
- Lead and influence architecture decisions that prioritize scalability and simplicity
- Seek feedback, iterate fast, and balance innovation with reliability
- Approach development with empathy—understanding how your work supports both our partners and their communities
- Mentor others and help foster a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture
Technologies
KotlinJavaJavaScriptTypeScript.NETC#MicroservicesNew RelicKibanaSQL
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