Mercado Libre

SR Software Engineer - Data

Mercado Libre
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18 hours ago
Governador Valadares, BrazilSenior

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate in a triad with Data Science and Data Analytics teams to define problems, solutions, and priorities.
  • Analyze, develop, and maintain highly efficient, reliable, and scalable services.
  • Ensure the technical quality of developments with an end-to-end perspective.
  • Minimize the operational cost of production solutions.
  • Ensure system stability and observability by creating alerts and participating in war rooms when necessary.
  • Develop expertise in streaming, batch processing, and feature stores from a strong software foundation.

Requirements

  • Solid experience developing high-scale backend systems with Java.
  • Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, REST APIs, and asynchronous integration patterns using Kafka.
  • Experience with concurrency and distributed parallelism.
  • Experience with analytical databases such as BigQuery and end-to-end solution design.
  • Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and/or MySQL and non-relational key-value databases.
  • Practical experience using AI development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or similar tools for code writing, test generation and review, debugging, and documentation.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement in Osasco, São Paulo.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaGoogle BigQueryJavaMySQLPostgreSQL

Categories

BackendData Engineering
Mercado Libre

About Mercado Libre

10,000+ employees

Mercado Libre builds an e-commerce marketplace and fintech infrastructure for consumers and merchants across Latin America. It monetizes through marketplace transaction fees, payment processing (Mercado Pago), logistics and fulfillment (Mercado Envíos), advertising, and credit products. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, it operates in 18 countries and is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the ticker MELI.

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