Senior Developer Backend Search CD+E
Role Overview
This senior backend developer role focuses on modernizing CI/CD pipelines and building systems, transforming legacy processes into automated workflows. Responsibilities include maintaining and enhancing search infrastructure, handling technical escalations, developing scalable search solutions for a video platform, and working on backend services and APIs. The hire will mentor junior developers and collaborate with a distributed, international engineering team to drive improvements in engineering velocity.
Perks & Benefits
The role offers a remote-first policy with full back-office support, including career guidance and HR services. Perks include a provided MacBook, growth opportunities through tech talks and chapter meetings, free English lessons with a native speaker, and access to a headquarters with amenities like massages and snacks. The culture emphasizes autonomy, collaboration, and a people-first approach, with a distributed team likely operating across time zones, requiring flexibility.
Full Job Description
Info on the Senior Developer - Backend/Search - CD+E (491) role
Ready to take the next step in your international career? We can support you!
Ubiminds is a GPTW-certified, people-first company that partners with American software product companies to scale their global teams. We curate top LATAM talent and connect professionals with long-term, high-impact opportunities while providing full employer-of-record support.
In this role, you’ll join a team focused on modernizing CI/CD pipelines and building systems, helping transform legacy processes into fast, reliable, and automated delivery workflows.
Challenge
We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Developer - Backend/Search - CD+E who genuinely enjoys untangling legacy build pipelines and turning them into clean, scalable, and automated systems.
As a senior developer, You'll be responsible for maintaining and enhancing our search infrastructure, handling technical escalations, and developing scalable search solutions for our video platform as well as developing and maintaining backend services, APIs and stored procedures.
The team: You’ll be part of a team of talented engineers with a variety of areas of expertise, from frontend to backend to full-stack. The team’s experience level ranges from seasoned developers with years of experience to junior developers who are growing their roles and impact with your mentorship.
Mandatory Skills:
5+ years of backend development experience
3+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Solr, including:
Schema design and configuration
Query optimization and performance tuning
Indexing strategies and data ingestion
Faceting, filtering, and search relevance
Experience with .NET/C# and SQL Server
Strong understanding of search algorithms, tokenization, and text analysis
Experience with RESTful API development
Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Nice to Have:
Experience with Elasticsearch, Lucene, or other search engines
Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
Experience with microservices architecture
Understanding of internationalization and multi-language search
Team & Environment:
- Distributed, international engineering team.
- Strong ownership culture — engineers drive solutions end to end.
- Focus on modernization, automation, and developer experience.
- High autonomy to propose and implement improvements.
- Collaborative environment with direct impact on engineering velocity.
About Ubiminds
Our Culture People First. We are all about people! Challenge yourself. There’s always room for improvement and continuous improvement is in our essence. Make it happen. Be ready to take challenges as they come. It’s all about attitude and commitment. We’re in this together. We work as a team, thrive as a team, and evolve as a team. Averaging on awesome. We work hard to deliver high-quality services and look forward to exceeding expectations. Keep it real. We promise you honesty, transparency, and openness, regardless of the situation.
Perks and Benefits As a Senior Developer - Backend/Search - CD+E @Ubiminds, you:
- You are placed in a product-based company, with the same treatment as their full-time employees.
- Have our full back-office support, from career guidance to HR and concierge services.
- Enjoy our remote-first policy – we are a distributed team, after all.
- Get your own MacBook (none of that "bring your own device" stuff here).
- Have access to growth opportunities with other amazing technology professionals, through tech talks, chapter meetings, and even remote happy hours for tons of fun!
- Improve your English through free lessons with a native English speaker - get to the next level on your communication skills!
- Candidate Referral bonus (promote Ubi to your tech friends, and get paid for it!)
- Miss working in the office? Our cool Florianópolis headquarters is available, whenever you want, with weekly quick massages & tasty snacks, soft drinks, and games
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