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About Sierra Studio

Studio When you apply to Sierra, you join an ecosystem. We specialize in connecting talented Brazilian professionals with exciting career opportunities in a highly-vetted small community of growing companies in the US. Applying to Sierra seamlessly integrates you into this ecosystem, granting automatic eligibility for all relevant opportunities we offer.

About our hiring partner

Our hiring partner is at the forefront of transforming the distribution and supply chain landscape, with a focus on industrial hardware - a multi-billion dollar market essential to manufacturing and infrastructure. They're developing an AI-driven platform to streamline workflows and provide data-driven insights, optimizing operations across the industry.

Backed by $3 million in funding and with a founding team with experience from McKinsey, Uber, Docker, and Twitter, they're now expanding their core engineering team to drive their next phase of growth and innovation.

The Opportunity As a pivotal member of our hiring partner's nascent engineering team, you'll:

• Work closely with the CEO and CTO to bring products from 0 to 1

• Have the autonomy to steer key architectural decisions and institute engineering best practices.

• Dive into exciting greenfield initiatives: from crafting intuitive UIs for customer facing products and internal tools to facilitate human-in-the-loop AI, to developing scalable backend systems and state-of-the-art machine learning models

• Shape their company values and define their engineering culture

• Immerse in company-building insights. Our hiring partner is committed to being transparent on fundraising, market strategies, and product evolution. Ideal for those aspiring to start their own companies.

Requirements

• Take full responsibility for project deliverables, demonstrate initiative, and proactively solve challenges.

• 4+ years of intense experience with backend software development: web application development, demonstrated mastery in at least a single language or framework, creating and maintaining CRUD API endpoints, working with relational databases, familiarity with Docker, Azure or GCP

• Navigate engineering tradeoffs effectively, balancing speed with quality.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields, or equivalent hands-on experience in a software development role.

• Nice to Have Familiarity with Typescript, Nodejs, Postgres, Redis, tRPC, Vercel

• Experience in building search and recommendation systems

• Prior roles as a tech lead and experience in the fast-paced startup environment.