Software Engineer
Mercado Libre23 days ago
Medellín, ColombiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Java and Go backend microservices using Javalin that function as Backend For Frontend services for React applications.
- Design and evolve workflows for uploading, storing, editing, processing, and generating listing images.
- Use generative AI assistants for coding, error analysis, pull-request reviews, documentation, and testing, validating suggestions before production use.
- Ensure service quality, resilience, and observability through scalable APIs, automated testing, event tracing, alerts, and metrics.
- Lead initiatives end to end from analysis through production follow-up and coordinate with other teams.
Requirements
- Solid backend development experience with Java; Javalin or Spring Boot experience is valued.
- Knowledge of application architecture, relational and non-relational databases, REST API design and integration, asynchronous messaging, queues, jobs, and distributed systems.
- Strong engineering practices and intensive use of coding assistants and AI tools such as Codex or GitHub Copilot, with validation of generated suggestions.
- Experience with Git for version control and Datadog or New Relic for monitoring.
- Frontend knowledge with React and experience with multimedia content processing are valued.
- Knowledge of business reports and metrics and practices such as TDD or SDD are valued.
- Availability to work in a hybrid arrangement in Córdoba, Argentina, or Medellín, Colombia.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement at the Córdoba, Argentina, or Medellín, Colombia site.
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.