Staff Backend Software Engineer - Local Commerce
iFoodBrasil
Posted September 22, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
iFood is a Brazilian technology company connecting customers, restaurants, and delivery drivers efficiently. With over 120 million monthly orders, iFood manages an ecosystem of over 330,000 establishments and 250,000 connected couriers across 1,700 cities in Brazil. The company aims to transform society through education, technology, food safety, inclusion, and positive socio-environmental impact.
Job Description
FoodTech is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design, code, test, and operate microservices that power the iFood platform. The role involves optimizing backend performance, identifying performance bottlenecks, and implementing solutions to ensure high availability and scalability. The ideal candidate will be passionate about software development and experience with distributed systems.
Requirements
- Previous experience in project, development and maintenance of microservices using Java, Kotlin and/or Go
- Experience with asynchronous communication between services and challenges of simultaneity in distributed systems, especially Kafka
- Passion for software development, object-oriented programming and functional
- Automation of tests, distributed systems and concepts of secure development
- Experience with relational databases and NoSQL, queries and data modeling
- Knowledge of Linux, infrastructure as code, networks, Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience handling applications that support millions of transactions per day, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Experience with asynchronous communication between services and challenges of simultaneity in distributed systems
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to work on a leading platform in the foodtech industry
- Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment