Senior Backend Engineer

What would you do?

• Engage in designing, developing, and maintaining backend components for our applications.

• Contribute to optimizing the performance and scalability of our services.

• Design and implement new functionalities while enhancing existing ones.

• Conduct product definitions and share findings with your team.

• Participate in code reviews and brainstorming sessions to continually refine our development processes and practices.

• Monitor the status of our operation's core services.

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level team members.

🙌🏼 Your experience has been shaped by

• Experience:+5 years of professional experience in application development using one or more of the following languages: Python, Node.js (TypeScript), Java, or C# (Must).

• Database Mastery: Proven experience and proficiency working with Relational Databases (SQL), including query optimization and schema design.

• Engineering Principles: Strong command of software design patterns, clean code practices, unit/integration testing, and SOLID principles.

• Practical experience working within Microservice Architecture environments.

• Proven experience with Event-Driven Architecture, including working knowledge of messaging systems like RabbitMQ or Kafka.

• Bonus: Experience working spec driven development and AI tools

🚀 Your SuperPowers

• Demonstrated ability to undertake delegated development tasks with a high level of quality.

• Proven capability to autonomously learn and solve day-to-day challenges.

• Skilled in adapting communication style and language to suit different audiences.

• Responsive to emergent tasks within the team.

• Capable of producing code with impeccable quality, security, and readability.

Additional Superpowers:

• Hands-on experience with AWS and Terraform

• Intermediate-advanced english skills.

Why Instaleap by Instacart?

• Build products used in real-time operations across multiple countries.

• Solve meaningful engineering challenges with real business impact.

• Work with modern technologies and strong engineering teams.

• Grow your technical and product mindset in a collaborative environment.

• Have autonomy, ownership, and space to propose ideas.

🪄 What we bring to the table

• 📄 Indefinite-term employment contract under Colombian labor law.

• 🌎 Hybrid Work: Work together as a team.

• 👩🏿‍💻 Flexible hours: We trust your work and skills.

• 🏖️ 10 Additional days off to vacations.

• 🎂 Half day off on your birthday.

• 📚 Access to Educational Budget.

• 🏥Health insurance: Prepaid medicine.

• 🎉Monthly activities with your team.