Senior Software Engineer Backend - GenAI Gateway
Mercado Libre12 hours ago
Governador Valadares, BrazilSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve highly available distributed architectures for the GenAI Gateway.
- Build high-performance backend services with asynchronous processing and streaming for large request volumes.
- Develop scalability, resilience, concurrency, latency, rate-limiting, and fault-tolerance strategies.
- Integrate artificial intelligence models with traceability, observability, and optimized platform resource usage.
- Drive technical decisions, architectural improvements, and engineering best practices with teams in different locations.
Requirements
- Demonstrated backend development expertise with Go or Java, high-performance services, APIs, and software architecture principles.
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems with asynchronous processing, SQL and NoSQL databases, Redis, and advanced resilience strategies.
- Experience applying automated testing, reliability engineering, and observability practices.
- Generative AI, language-model integration, Datadog, and Kibana knowledge is desirable.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model.
- Work location: São Paulo, Melicidade, Brazil.
About Mercado Libre
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.