4 months ago
Buenos Aires, ArgentinaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Analyze and develop solutions for business and technical problems.
- Participate in system design, architecture, scalability, and feature definition.
- Own applications and their end-to-end lifecycle, including deployment, testing, and post-production monitoring.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code and participate in code reviews.
- Identify bottlenecks, resolve errors, and improve application performance.
- Design and implement RESTful APIs and integrate third-party services.
- Design and optimize MongoDB data models and manage Redis caching strategies.
- Monitor application health and improve platform scalability, availability, and maintainability.
- Propose new functionality and improvements based on data and post-deployment metrics.
Requirements
- More than six years of experience developing scalable backend solutions, specifically with Java.
- Experience with non-relational databases such as MongoDB and Redis.
- Experience across the full development lifecycle, including production releases, deployment, testing, and post-implementation monitoring.
- Ability to assess feature impact, track post-deployment metrics, and challenge proposals using data-driven judgment.
- Interest in or experience with AI tools and technologies.
- Frontend technology experience is a nice-to-have.
Benefits
- Autonomy, meaningful impact, and an environment focused on learning and scaling.
- A diverse, people-centered team.
- Opportunity to work at Despegar, a Latin American travel company.
About Despegar
Despegar builds an online travel marketplace for consumers across Latin America, selling flights, hotels, vacation packages, car rentals, and experiences through its apps and site, plus B2B inventory via brands like Best Day and HotelDO. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in the British Virgin Islands, it operates in 19 countries and is part of Prosus, with a portfolio that includes Viajes Falabella, ViajaNet, Koin, and Stays.net.