Swile
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Remote, Brasil
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- Role family
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Country
- BR
- Work mode
- Remote-friendly
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- 1 Sept 2026
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About us ✨
At Swile, we believe that good products can help reduce friction in daily professional life and boost employee satisfaction. Today, we provide innovative solutions in various areas such as Fintech, Travel, HR, and Employee Benefits to more than 5.5 million users in 85,000 companies in France and Brazil.
About the role 🔥
For those who are passionate about continuous improvement, this position is for you.
This software engineer will help our developers optimize our current app integrating best practices—whether in a single line of code or the entire architecture. Autonomy goes hand in hand with communication.
Being a Senior Software Engineer at Swile means positively impacting the lives of our clients and users by making data-driven decisions and ensuring efficiency, stability, and performance in our applications. By translating product visions into software, we solve complex problems that enable a unique, stable, and functional experience for everyone.
As backend engineers, we work on applications such as REST APIs, dashboards, tools, and internal services that allow our clients and users to access their benefits flexibly, easily, and reliably whenever needed.
Main responsibilities 🧩
Software Engineering
Write high-quality, well-documented, efficient, tested, and maintainable code
Ensure and improve observability and monitoring of our applications
Proactively focus on enhancing other team members’ technical skills, coding standards, and overall code quality
Learn new programming languages when needed
Actively work on improving the security, performance, and stability of applications
Conduct and receive high-quality code reviews
Design and Architecture
Provide technical guidance by contributing to informed, objective, and simple solution discussions
Propose architectural solutions, collaborating and mentoring other team members to meet both functional and non-functional requirements
Execution and Delivery
Estimate and plan timelines for deliverables with stakeholders and the product team
Leverage existing Swile solutions to align with global platforms
Work with loosely defined or ambiguous requirements to help shape better solutions alongside product and team members
Build incremental solutions with the product team to promote continuous improvement and delivery
Focus on delivering well-tested and automated features, including E2E tests, to ensure application stability
Monitor and respond to incidents in production
Leadership
Lead projects, ensuring delivery within estimated timelines
Help technically grow team members by being a role model
Participate in hiring processes for engineers at the same or lower levels
Minimum Requirements ✅
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields—or equivalent practical experience
Professional experience in software engineering using Java or Kotlin
Experience in designing and developing distributed systems
Experience with technologies such as Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar
Experience with relational and non-relational databases
Clear and effective communication skills
Advanced English C1 level
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