Senior Backend Engineer
What would you do?
Engage in designing, developing, and maintaining backend components for our applications.
Contribute to optimizing the performance and scalability of our services.
Design and implement new functionalities while enhancing existing ones.
Conduct product definitions and share findings with your team.
Participate in code reviews and brainstorming sessions to continually refine our development processes and practices.
Monitor the status of our operation's core services.
Provide guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level team members.
🙌🏼 Your experience has been shaped by
Experience:+5 years of professional experience in application development using one or more of the following languages: Node.js (TypeScript) or Python , Java, C# (Must).
Database Mastery: Proven experience and proficiency working with Relational Databases (SQL), including query optimization and schema design.
Engineering Principles: Strong command of software design patterns, clean code practices, unit/integration testing, and SOLID principles.
Practical experience working within Microservice Architecture environments.
Proven experience with Event-Driven Architecture, including working knowledge of messaging systems like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
Bonus: Experience working spec driven development and AI tools
🚀 Your SuperPowers
Demonstrated ability to undertake delegated development tasks with a high level of quality.
Proven capability to autonomously learn and solve day-to-day challenges.
Skilled in adapting communication style and language to suit different audiences.
Responsive to emergent tasks within the team.
Capable of producing code with impeccable quality, security, and readability.
Intermediate-advanced english skills.
Additional Superpowers:
Hands-on experience with AWS and Terraform
Why Instaleap by Instacart?
Build products used in real-time operations across multiple countries.
Solve meaningful engineering challenges with real business impact.
Work with modern technologies and strong engineering teams.
Grow your technical and product mindset in a collaborative environment.
Have autonomy, ownership, and space to propose ideas.
🪄 What we bring to the table
📄 Indefinite-term employment contract under Colombian labor law.
🌎 Hybrid Work: Work together as a team.
👩🏿💻 Flexible hours: We trust your work and skills.
🏖️ 10 Additional days off to vacations.
🎂 Half day off on your birthday.
📚 Access to Educational Budget.
🏥Health insurance: Prepaid medicine.
🎉Monthly activities with your team.