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title: "Senior Backend Engineer"
company: "Sardine"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/sardine"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/sardine-senior-backend-engineer-5f0cb366-5e0d-4a8f-8c67-fa398bf13a21"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sardine/301662be-e7ab-4827-936a-13fe02add4aa"
workplace: remote
location: "Brazil"
remote_scope: "Brazil"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: senior
role: software-engineering
region: latin-america
skills: ["gcp", "go", "java", "postgres", "python", "react", "ruby", "terraform", "typescript"]
date_posted: 2025-05-21T20:44:39.284Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-08-26T15:15:11.266Z
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# Senior Backend Engineer

**Sardine** — Brazil

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sardine/301662be-e7ab-4827-936a-13fe02add4aa

## About Sardine

The top agentic risk platform used by leading banks and merchants worldwide to stop fraud in real-time, prevent AI-driven attacks, automate fraud & AML operations

## About the role

**Who we are:**

Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine’s platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.

**Our culture:**

- We have hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, Toronto, and São Paulo. However, we maintain a remote-first work culture. #WorkFromAnywhere

- We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation.

- We value performance and not hours worked. We believe you shouldn't have to miss your family dinner, your kid's school play, friends get-together, or doctor's appointments for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule.**Location: **Remote - Brazil

To be considered for this position, you must reside in one of the following cities:

- São Paulo: São Paulo, Campinas, São José dos Campos

- Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro

- Minas Gerais: Belo Horizonte

- Paraná: Curitiba

- Santa Catarina: Florianópolis**About the Role:**

As a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, constructing, and maintaining APIs, services, and systems across our engineering team. This multifaceted position involves developing new features on a large scale, refining internal tooling and processes, contributing to product and technical roadmaps, and assuming diverse responsibilities within the organization. The ideal candidate for the backend role will have a proven track record in building highly available APIs, with additional proficiency in data pipelines and the relevant domain.

**What you'll be doing:**

- Design, create, and maintain robust, efficient, and reliable backend services to meet our platform's evolving needs.

- Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to architect and implement new services from inception to delivery.

- Contribute to developing new features and capabilities that deliver substantial value to our customers.

- Work with various engineering and product teams to synchronize efforts and deliver cutting-edge solutions.

- Craft and maintain user-facing technical documentation, enhancing user understanding and facilitating seamless adoption of our services.

- Play a pivotal role in shaping our company's engineering culture, ensuring the maintenance of high engineering standards across the organization.**What you’ll need:**

- 7+ years of proven experience as a Software Engineer specializing in web backend development.

- Proficiency in Golang is a significant advantage.

- Additional experience in data engineering is highly desirable.

- A track record of successfully delivering high-quality production services and systems.

- Customer-centric approach with a strong emphasis on empathy towards users.

- Relevant industry experience, particularly in banking or fintech, and domain knowledge in fraud prevention or compliance.

- Proficient in English - from casual chats to formal reports.**Technologies we use:**

- TypeScript (React + node)

- Golang

- Ruby

- Bigtable

- Postgres / PostgreSQL

- GCP dataflow (apache beam)

- BigQuery

- Python

- Java

- Terraform**Benefits we offer:**

- Generous compensation in cash and equity

- Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested

- Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture

- Flexible paid time off and Year-end break

- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific

- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific

- MacBook Pro delivered to your door

- One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.

- Monthly meal stipend

- Monthly social meet-up stipend

- Annual health and wellness stipend

- Annual Learning stipendJoin a fast-growing company with world-class professionals from around the world. If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you.

*To learn more about how we process your personal information and your rights in regards to your personal information as an applicant and Sardine employee, please visit our *[Applicant and Worker Privacy Notice](https://www.sardine.ai/applicant-and-worker-privacy-notice)*.*

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