Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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