Senior Backend Engineer

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MANUAL is a fast growing Healthtech scale-up, aiming to be the healthcare provider that millions of people trust as their partner to a long and healthy life. Our platform allows users to quickly and safely diagnose possible conditions, get treatment and support them afterwards to live a higher quality life. To do this we are building an all in one healthcare platform which brings together world leading medical expertise and technical excellence.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to contribute to our mission of improving patients' health and their lives.

To us, it's more than just strong technical fundamentals. We're looking for someone who brings deep engineering skills
and
a strong sense of product ownership.

This is a
remote
role based in
Brazil
— you'll be part of a globally distributed mission-led team with engineering hubs in London, Sofia, and São Paulo.

Who you are

• You're a software engineer with at least 5 years commercial experience
• You have a genuine enthusiasm for software engineering and take no greater pleasure than finding the right solution to the problem at hand and making practical tradeoffs
• You are excited about contributing to a product that can drive positive change to the lives of millions of people around the world
• You have strong ownership mindset - "you build it, you run it"
• You're eager to continuously learn, grow and step out of your comfort zone
• The idea of working in a successful, high growth startup in a fast paced role excites you

What You Will Do
Develop scalable & reliable systems

• Develop core functionality for our own customer facing and internal products, systems and data platforms, and e-commerce capabilities using modern frameworks
• Develop extensible platforms and architectures that make it possible to quickly and efficiently launch new products and lines of business
• Develop and maintain integrations with third party systems
• Develop the APIs powering the web & mobile platforms for our product portfolio

Drive impact in a team environment

• You'll work with other software engineers, designers, QAs, product managers, business stakeholders and domain experts
• You'll drive impact and own your work end2end - from scoping & planning, architectural design decisions, implementation and testing, to production deployment and operations.

*What we need from you*

• Excellent English skills (verbal and written) are mandatory
• At least 5 years of commercial experience as a software engineer or equivalent
• Familiarity with scalable cloud architectures, design patterns and best practices
• Practical experience with CI/CD and IaC (Infrastructure-as-code)
• Readiness to quickly learn PHP (our main BE language for the moment)
• Experience with databases & data management practices - relational databases & search engines
• Experience with TDD and testable code - unit / integration / performance testing
• Great verbal and written communication skills and the ability to explain complex ideas in a simple way to non-engineering teammates
• Ability to zoom in and out - be comfortable with getting into the relevant low-level details while also making the optimal tradeoffs for achieving the "big picture" goals

Experience You May Have

• A degree in CS or equivalent is a plus
• Practical experience with building scalable & highly reliable cloud systems that support product used by millions of users around the world 24/7
• Familiarity with modern JS frameworks
• Experience working in cross functional teams
• An eye for user behaviour and design and attention to detail

What We Offer

• Generous stock option plan
• Private medical insurance
• Gym & wellness benefit with Wellhub
• Remote, hybrid, and flexible work; with office options in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
• English classes benefit with Cambly
• 30 days holidays and parental leave, with flexible working policies
• International exposure with direct interactions with the UK/EU team
• Annual company retreat
• A fun and friendly working environment with sharp and motivated co-workers
• Join in the early stages of one of the most promising scale-ups in the health & wellness space

Our hiring process
Interviews will be conducted in English

• Team fit interview: you'll meet with product & tech leaders
• Case study: a take home tech task to assess your software engineering skills
• Tech interview: you'll meet with tech team and discuss your case study solution
• 2 Interviews with members of the executive team
• Offer

We are destigmatising how people approach their health by offering easy access to diagnostics and a holistic range of treatments, as well as a community to help proactively improve one's health and wellbeing. A place that didn't exist until now.