Senior Software Engineer

UpHill is the place where health professionals can find best practices to decide and train.
We're backed and trusted by top-tier investors and leading clients (e.g. Luz Saúde, Caixa Capital, Bynd, Maze, Brighteye Ventures, Novartis, Pfizer, etc).

Today we're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our talented team and help us build a decision support Saas platform that will revolutionize healthcare, minimize medical error and thus improve patient outcomes.

Stack used:

• Java 17


• Spring boot


• Docker
  


• Relational SQL and Documents NoSQL


• AWS stack - Fargate (service architecture), EventBridge, SQS, Cognito, Lambda, etc - Terraform

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architect to design microservices: Work closely with the architect to understand product requirements and translate them into a technical solution using microservices architecture. This includes defining microservice boundaries, APIs, data models, and communication protocols.


• Develop and maintain microservices: Take the designed microservice architecture and translate it into well-written, clean, maintainable, and testable code using Java 17 and Spring Boot 3. Ensure the microservices are performant, scalable, and secure.


• Contribute to AWS cloud infrastructure: Participate in designing, deploying, and maintaining the AWS cloud infrastructure that supports the SaaS application.


• Showcase implemented solutions: Effectively communicate and demonstrate the technical solutions implemented by the team during sprint reviews or other relevant forums. This might involve creating presentations, demos, or documentation to explain the design choices, functionalities, and benefits of the implemented services.


• Collaborate and define coding conventions: Work with the team to establish and maintain clear and consistent coding conventions. This may involve discussing best practices, identifying areas for improvement, and documenting the agreed-upon conventions.


• Ownership mentality: you ship and maintain what you build.


• Autonomous but collaborative: capable of owning initiatives while working effectively with cross-functional teams (product, design, ops, etc.).


• Product-focused: you care about the "why" as much as the "how" behind every feature.
  

Main requirements

• MSc/BSc in Computer Engineering or similar.
  


• Minimum 7 years of Backend development experience using Object Oriented Programming
  


• Experience in working in a team
  


• Experience in Code Reviews


• Experience in an Event-driven Architecture


• Experience in Java 11 or newer, Spring Boot and Spring Framework


• Experience in Relational SQL and Documents NoSQL


• Strong Testing experience - Unit, Integration, E2E


• Rigorous about code quality - Usage of tools like SonarQube


• Experience in taking part in architectural discussions/decisions
  


• Keen awareness of the evolving software development landscape, including the integration of AI assistants and productivity tools in day-to-day engineering work.


• Experience in designing systems for production readiness, including health checks, distributed tracing, and incident response.


• Strong observability mindset: familiarity with tools like CloudWatch, DataDog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc. Understands the importance of logging, metrics, and alerting in a production-grade SaaS product.


• Fluency in Portuguese and English.

Nice to have

• Docker


• noSQL


• CI/CD knowledge


• DevOps knowledge


• Terraform knowledge


• AWS knowledge


• Experience working in a services-oriented architecture


• Messaging brokers (e.g. RabbitMQ, ApacheMQ, etc)


• Cloudwatch, DataDog, etc


• HL7v2/FHIR knowledge


• Experience with integrations

Perks

• Health & dental insurance.


• Birthday day-off


• Gym


• Flexible schedule


• Open vacation policy
  


• Budget for training
  


• Additional Team holidays - Get together with the entire company 


• Macbook


• Office freebies.


• No Corporate BS.