Backend Engineer- LATAM
SwapcardPosted 2/10/2025
Backend Engineer- LATAM
Swapcard
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Job Summary
Swapcard is seeking a Backend Engineer to join their team in building and enhancing the core systems that drive their event platform. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in software development with a strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, advanced knowledge of backend programming languages, and proficiency with relational and non-relational databases. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deliver high-quality solutions for event organizers. Swapcard offers a remote-first policy, international team, career growth opportunities, open-minded culture, and generous benefits. The company values curiosity, openness, humanity, resilience, ambition, and feedback-driven approach.
Job Description
Our Mission
Swapcard is the leading AI-powered event platform designed to drive revenue growth and foster meaningful connections at in-person and hybrid events. We recognize the importance of teamwork in successful events; that's why Swapcard is fueled by a team of innovators who are passionate about helping organizers build future-proof events.
Our Vision
At Swapcard, we believe in the power of meaningful connections. This belief fuels our commitment to pioneering modern solutions that empower organizers to create engaging event experiences.
Guided by our commitment to excellence and collaboration, we aim to redefine the landscape of event technology, setting new standards for engagement, accessibility, and impact.
Our Beliefs
At Swapcard, diversity is at the core of our success. With 42 nationalities represented among our 180+ team members, we champion diversity as a catalyst for creativity, collaboration, and unparalleled innovation.
We believe that by embracing a multitude of backgrounds, cultures, and viewpoints, we can truly understand and cater to the needs of our global community of event organizers and participants.
Our full remote opportunities empower our team to thrive, no matter where they are in the world, fostering a culture of flexibility and inclusion.
The role
We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join one of our squads dedicated to building and enhancing the core systems that drive Swapcard’s capabilities. You’ll play a key role in designing, developing, and delivering high-quality, scalable solutions for event organizer; while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Examples of Squads and their respective scopes:
Joining any of these squads means contributing to impactful projects that directly shape the future of Swapcard’s platform.
Matchmaking Squad: Focused on optimizing meeting functionalities and advancing the hosted buyer program to deliver a premium, Grade A experience for participants.
Builder Squad: Dedicated to developing a robust website builder that enhances event organizers’ customization options while significantly reducing setup time and effort.
Integration Squad: Dedicated to building a robust Connector Hub, empowering event organizers to seamlessly integrate their preferred toolchains with Swapcard.
What you'll do?
- Design, develop, and deliver high-quality, efficient, and robust backend solutions.
- Actively participate in coding, system design, code reviews, and troubleshooting production issues.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to devise optimal engineering solutions.
- Continuously enhance system performance and scalability.
What are we looking for?
- Experience: 3+ years in software development with a strong foundation in computer science fundamentals such as algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming.
- Programming Skills: Advanced knowledge of at least one backend programming language, such as Node.js (TypeScript) or Go, with the ability to design and deploy high-quality APIs (GraphQL or REST).
- Database Expertise: Proficiency with both relational and non-relational databases, including MariaDB, MongoDB, Postgres, with a focus on optimization and performance tuning.
- Problem-Solving: Skilled at maintaining and improving legacy systems, evaluating tradeoffs between refactor, rebuild, or buy decisions.
- Collaboration: Outstanding communicator who is proactive, adaptable, and self-motivated, with the ability to work asynchronously across multiple time zones.
- Microservices Architecture: Proven ability to operate, troubleshoot, and scale systems built with a microservices architecture using tools like Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, and GRPC/Protobuf for communication.
Bonus Skills
- Cloud & Orchestration: Experience with AWS and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.
- Advanced Messaging: Familiarity with message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
- Observability: Experience using tools like Prometheus, Loki, Pyroscope & Grafana for data visualization.
- Testing: Experience with end-to-end (E2E) testing frameworks
Swapcard’s Interview process
Our thorough interview process aims to identify exceptional talent to advance our mission while offering you a chance to explore your career potential at Swapcard.
1. Screening Interview with a recruiter from our people team.
2. A remote exercise to demonstrate and assess your skills.
3. Manager review with your future reporting manager
4. Leadership review with one of our department leaders
5. Reference check conducted by our people team
6. Offer
Swapcard's Values
🧠 Curious: We ask questions and try new things. We embrace new experiences and love to learn from others. We are curious about what something is and WHY something is.
👽 Open-minded: We welcome change as well as ideas and feedback from others. We welcome people as they are and learn from each other's personal and professional experiences.
❤️ Human: No masking who we are. Empathy encourages a down-to-earth environment where we all feel comfortable and free to be human. Creating bonds makes it easier to share ideas, give feedback, and ask for help.
✊ Resilient: Our challenges in life have only made us stronger and wiser. We prefer the term “experiment” over “failure” because we always keep trying. We are solution-oriented and find innovative approaches to succeed.
🏅 Ambitious: Nothing is impossible. We're always striving to get better, seize opportunities, and reach the top. We are encouraged to dream big and believe in ourselves.
Benefits & Reasons to Join Swapcard
- International team with 40+ nationalities (more on the way!) 🌍
- Remote-first policy with headquarters in Paris 🗼
- Thriving startup with career growth opportunities 🪴
- Open-minded culture that appreciates differences 👽
- Feedback-driven, supportive & curious team with a DIY mindset 🤔 🛠
- Generous Paid Time Off to ensure you have time for what matters most ❤️🏡
- Remote perks designed to optimize your working experience 🎁
- In-person social gatherings to celebrate our achievements 🏝️
- 100% of your health insurance contribution paid by Swapcard 🏥
- Work-from-home budget (one-off contribution for equipment in addition to your initial equipment setup) 🖇️
- Co-working space budget to support remote work in professional environments 💼
- Learning budget to help you develop new and existing skills 🤓
- Mental health care initiatives to support your well-being 🧘
Equal Opportunity
Swapcard is committed to upholding equal employment practices and making merit-based employment decisions. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds, abilities, and experiences to apply, regardless of race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy status, age, marital status, and status as a veteran
