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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">Want to get to the next step in your international career? </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">We can support you! </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Ubiminds is a GPTW-certified, people-first company that partners with American software product companies to scale their development footprint. Ubi custom-curates Brazilian top 5% talent for their LATAM strategy, offering a unique combo of staff augmentation and employer-of-record services.</span></p> <p> </p> <p>The client you'll be working with has undergone a major transformation over the last five years! They shifted from a typical training company to a tech-focused competitor with top-notch content. In 2018, they switched to subscription-based digital learning using the All-Access Pass platform. In 2021, they acquired a key player with clients like Slack, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Intuit. Now, they're positioned to lead in edtech. Their Platforms team is looking for great talent with a growth mindset to join and help grow their product.</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 24px;">Challenge</span></p> <p>As a Senior Software Engineer - Python + React, you will build products to help organizations train their employees and overcome their most pressing people-related problems at scale. You will work with product, design, data, and content teams to build a modern learning platform with an emphasis on performance and scalability.</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">What you'll do</span></p> <p><strong>Build</strong></p> <ul> <li>You will ship regularly and iteratively, writing testable, readable, and maintainable code.</li> <li>Develop a deep understanding of how data flows through complex systems and work with intricate data models.</li> <li>Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to improve velocity while maintaining code quality.</li> <li>Design and implement solutions considering scale, security, performance, and privacy.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Tech Lead skills</strong><br>- Guide other engineers on best practices for safely and effectively integrating AI into their development workflows.<br>- Help junior engineers develop the technical skills needed to become tomorrow’s senior engineers.<br>- Propose and help implement improvements to our engineering processes, including (but not limited to) how to adapt as AI continues to advance.<br>- Participate in and lead code reviews, share learnings through presentations or documentation, and mentor others.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Collaborate</strong></p> <ul> <li>Engineers participate early in the product development process. You will review quantitative and qualitative research about our clients and learners and weigh in on the product strategy and roadmap.</li> <li>Collaborate with fellow Engineering Team Members in Design and Operational Reviews to guide technical decision-making and identify performance issues. </li> <li>Partner closely with Product to provide multiple viable technical paths for new features and improvements.</li> <li>Embrace our writing-focused culture: much of our collaboration, planning, and ideation happens in written form.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Support & Learn</strong></p> <p>- You will work with the product, design, and support teams to ensure users get the most value from the products you've built.</p> <p>- Fix bugs and performance problems.</p> <p>- Embrace our writing-focused culture: much of our collaboration, planning, and ideation happens in written form.</p> <p>- Demonstrate curiosity and a willingness to learn unfamiliar technologies or domains.</p> <p>- Participate in and lead code reviews, share learnings through presentations or documentation, and mentor others.</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 24px;">In order to succeed in this position, you will need:</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Mandatory skills</span></p> <p>- 7+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.<br>- Experience coding in a production <strong>Python/Django </strong>environment<br>- Experience with <strong>React and TypeScript. </strong><br>- Experience writing <strong>SQL queries </strong>and designing relational data models.<br>- Experience using agentic development workflows.</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Nice-to-have</span></p> <p>- Ability to articulate where AI workflows create leverage for a small team and where they create liability.<br>- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.<br>- Experience with tiered web application architecture, including backend services, APIs, and frontend integration<br>- Experience creating performance monitors and dashboards using observability tools such as Datadog.<br>- Experience improving or refactoring complex systems in production without impacting customer experience—especially under conditions involving tight synchronization, legacy code, or data consistency challenges.<br>- Excellent written communication skills, as much of our work and collaboration is driven through writing.<br>- Passion for leadership development and empowering growth in individuals and teams</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 24px;">About Ubiminds</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Cultural fit</span></p> <p>- People First. We are all about people!</p> <p>- Challenge yourself. There’s always room for improvement and continuous improvement is in our essence.</p> <p>- Make it happen. Be ready to take challenges as they come. It’s all about attitude and commitment. </p> <p>- We’re in this together. We work as a team, we thrive as a team and we evolve as a team.</p> <p>- Averaging on awesome. We work hard to deliver high-quality services and look forward to exceeding expectations. </p> <p>- Keep it real. We promise you honesty, transparency, and openness, regardless of the situation.</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Perks and Benefits</span></p> <p><strong>As a Senior Software Engineer @Ubiminds, you:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Are placed in a product-based company, with the same treatment as their full-time employees;</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Have our full back-office support, from career guidance to HR and concierge services;</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Enjoy our remote-first policy - we are a distributed team, after all;</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Get your own MacBook (none of that "bring your own device" stuff here);</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Have access to growth opportunities with other amazing technology professionals, through tech talks, chapter meetings, and even remote happy hours for tons of fun!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Improve your English through free lessons with a native English speaker - get to the next level of your communication skills!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Candidate Referral bonus (promote Ubi to your tech friends, and get paid for it!);</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">- Miss working in the office? Our cool Florianópolis headquarters is available, whenever you want, with weekly quick massages & tasty snacks, soft drinks, and games.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 24px;">How our process works</span></p> <p>1- Interview with Tech Recruiter (chat about the job opening and your experiences)</p> <p>2- Client process (this may vary)</p> <p>3- Offer (yay)</p> <p></p><p><br></p><p></p>

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