Senior Backend Engineer · Go/Golang · Distributed Systems · Microservices
São José, SC — Remote · Available for CET/UK overlap · Open to work
9+ years building backend systems in production. For the last 5+ years, focused on Go microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures at scale.
At Mercado Livre, worked on an 18-service ecosystem handling ~10,000 req/min, led an AI initiative architecting a RAG system with Claude API, and acted as Engineering Mentor introducing Spec Driven Development (SDD) across the team.
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Mercado Livre — Senior Software Engineer (Nov 2024 – Apr 2026)
- ~10k req/min across Go/Node.js microservices; event-driven with BigQueue/Fury + DLQ patterns
- AI Tech Lead: RAG system (Claude API) enabling natural-language querying across 18 internal services
- Engineering Mentor: introduced Spec Driven Development (SDD) to improve team output consistency
- Security Guardian: owned vulnerability remediation via Dependabot and container scanning
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Galley Solutions — Backend Engineer (Aug 2022 – Jun 2024)
- Go/Node.js microservices (12 services, Kafka); Auth0 OAuth2/OIDC; Terraform on AWS
- Founded and operated the Security Committee: Dependabot, container scanning, secure dev practices
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B2B SaaS — Automotive Analytics — Tech Lead / Backend Engineer (Dec 2020 – Aug 2022)
- Led architecture of a vehicle analytics platform; Go REST APIs with GCP Pub/Sub and DLQ patterns
📍 São José, SC, Brazil · Remote · UTC-3



