Backend Developer

Location : BAL - SEDE 

City : Sao Paulo 

State : São Paulo (BR-SP) 

Country : Brazil (BR) 

Requisition Number : 41172 

Bunge has an exciting opportunity available for BackEnd Engineer. In this role you will be part of a global team working on challenging, meaningful projects impacting core business activities. Since 1818, Bunge has been connecting farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed, and fuel to the world. Looking to the future, our ambition is to continuously reinvent ourselves, leveraging data to be at the forefront of analytics, technology and talent to accomplish our purpose in a better, faster and simpler way. Bunge is committed to operating and thriving in the digital world – creating world class agile teams where teammates are empowered and encouraged to collaborate and test and learn to succeed.

At Bunge, people don’t just come here to work, they come here to grow – solving challenges that directly impact the world with a diverse team of thinkers and doers. Bunge offers a strong compensation and benefits package, generous paid time off program, flexible work arrangements, and opportunity to progress. Our hybrid work environment provides a balance of in-office and remote work.

Most importantly, in all we do we live our values:

• Act as One Team by fostering inclusion, collaboration, and respect
• Drive for Excellence by being agile, innovative and efficient
• Do What's Right by acting safely, ethically, and sustainably

Overview:

The BackEnd Engineer will play a key role in developing and maintaining robust and scalable backend systems for Bunge's digital products. This role requires strong technical skills in backend technologies, as well as the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions. The successful candidate will be proactive, detail-oriented, and passionate about building reliable and efficient backend services.

Essential Functions:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable backend services and APIs using industry-standard frameworks.
• Write clean, well-documented, and testable code.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to define API requirements and specifications.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and share knowledge with team members.
• Troubleshoot and debug backend issues, and implement solutions to resolve them.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest backend technologies and best practices, and share knowledge with the team.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the development process and codebase.
• Ensure that backend systems are optimized for performance and scalability.

Impact/Dimensions:

• Contributes to the development of short-term strategies within the department.
• Works on projects and initiatives that have an impact on business on a domestic or international scale.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in own area within the organization.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

• API response time and throughput.
• Code quality, as measured by code reviews and automated testing.
• System uptime and reliability.
• Ease of use and maintenance complexity of developed components

Major Opportunities and Decisions:

• Applies technical expertise to analyze and solve problems without clear precedents.
• Identifies ways to apply functional knowledge and methodologies to solve complex challenges.
• Recommends process, product, or service improvements based on anticipated internal and external business challenges.

Management/Leadership:

• Manages operational plans.
• May participate with comparable influence in large projects and initiatives.
• Provides leadership to professionals and support staff.
• Contributes to short- to mid-term talent optimization plans to execute strategies within their job area.

Key Relationships, Stakeholders & Interfaces (External & Internal):

• Internal: Frontend Engineers, Product Managers, DevOps Engineers, Database Administrators. Architects.
• External: Technology Vendors, Cloud Providers.

Knowledge and Technical Competencies:

• Strong proficiency in Python programming language and experience with leading frameworks like Django, Streamlit and similar.
• Experience with building RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Knowledge of database systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB (cloud databases are plus).
• Experience with cloud platforms (Google Cloud preferred).
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD Pipelines, such as Build Validations, Deploys and Git Repos.
• Hands-on experience with NodeJS platform will be considered as additional advantage.
• Understanding of software development best practices and design patterns.
• Experience with testing frameworks and methodologies.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Education/Experience:

• Typically Bachelor's degree with 3 - 5 years of position related experience, or equivalent combo of education and experience level.
• Experience with working in agile projects.
• Fluency in English

Bunge (NYSE: BG) is a world leader in sourcing, processing and supplying oilseed and grain products and ingredients. Founded in 1818, Bunge’s expansive network feeds and fuels a growing world, creating sustainable products and opportunities for more than 70,000 farmers and the consumers they serve across the globe. The company is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri and has 25,000 employees worldwide who stand behind more than 350 port terminals, oilseed processing plants, grain facilities, and food and ingredient production and packaging facilities around the world.

Bunge is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Veterans/Disabled