Senior Backend Software Engineer

Overview

TRACTIAN is transforming the industrial world by empowering frontline maintenance workers to achieve more. We’ve fused cutting-edge hardware with innovative software into one powerful platform, disrupting legacy systems and delivering smarter, faster solutions for our clients. As part of our growth-stage startup, you’ll work alongside the founders, shaping the vision, products, and experiences that will define the future of industrial tech.

Engineering at TRACTIAN: the Backend Engineering team builds and scales the infrastructure powering our platform, from advanced monitoring products to our CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System). We design and develop robust systems that handle large volumes of real-time and historical data from industrial assets.

We craft and maintain data-intensive microservices, resilient APIs, and scalable ETL pipelines. Our work spans relational and non-relational database schemas, event-driven architectures, and performance optimization under high-throughput workloads. Backend Engineers work with firmware, frontend, data, and product teams to deliver features that improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and modernize industrial operations.

What you’ll do as a Backend Software Engineer: design and build critical APIs, microservices, and ETLs powering our core products, from industrial monitoring systems to our CMMS platform. You’ll evolve backend architecture to meet scale, performance, and product-excellence demands, directly impacting thousands of users across industries that rely on us to keep operations running.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data-intensive, high-performance backend services based on an event-driven architecture.
• Develop and maintain APIs and services that power real-time monitoring features and complex maintenance workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure backend applications align with the overall product vision and user experience goals.
• Optimize applications and data processing workflows for performance, speed, efficiency, and reliability across environments.
• Continuously evolve systems through refactoring, introducing best practices, and improving maintainability and observability.
• Document architectural decisions and technical implementations for current and future maintainers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• 5+ years of backend development experience with a focus on user-facing products
• Experience with event-driven applications using messaging technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, BullMQ or similar
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Node.js, and/or Rust
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and distributed system design
• Proficiency with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, ClickHouse) and non-relational databases (e.g., ScyllaDB, Cassandra, MongoDB) with focus on performance and scalability
• Experience building mission-critical backend services in high-growth, product-driven environments

Bonus points

• Contributions to open-source or personal projects demonstrating backend architecture or data processing expertise
• Fluency in English

Compensation

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Optional fully funded English / Spanish courses
• 30 days of paid annual leave
• Education and courses stipend
• Employee Giving
• Earn a trip anywhere in the world every 4 years
• Up to R$1,000/mo for meals and remote work allowance
• Health plan with national coverage and without coparticipation
• Dental Insurance for improved quality of life
• Gympass and Sports Incentive: R$300/mo extra if you practice activities

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Software Development