
Opportunity in Tech Company - Backend Engineer at Silver.dev (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Silver.dev· Buenos Aires, Argentina· $126k·
Role details
Salary
$126k
Work type
Hybrid
Employment
Full-Time
Job description
About the role: This opportunity gives you the chance to develop and maintain our backend services, solving deep tech problems for our users. We are looking for long-term players, people who own a keen product sense. What you’ll do:
- Design and implement new functionalities required by our mobile applications, collaborating with product, mobile, platform, and other backend engineers.
- Improve existing systems as needed by fixing bugs, improving resource usage, and making them scale.
- Deliver code to production and features to users frequently and incrementally.
- Develop tooling to improve our development practices.
- Participate in code reviews to raise the quality of our code and our product.
- Own your code in production.
- Work with our CX team when users are having trouble with the app.
What you’ll bring or Qualifications:
- Experience with running distributed systems in production.
- Cross-team collaboration skills, our team is highly cross-functional, and our problems bring everyone to the table.
- A beginner’s mindset, always striving to understand.
- Own and solve problems.
- Willing and able to work on open issues.
- Being open to solving whatever needs to be solved.
Tech Stack:
- We develop with Java 17.
- Our production environment is based on Kubernetes, using Honeycomb, Grafana, and Sentry for observability.
- A CI/CD pipeline for automated merges and deployments.
Interview Process
- Silver Screening Interview.
- Silver Technical Interview.
- Client Screening Interview.
- TakeHome Challenge.
- System Design Interview
- Behavioral Interview.
Why work at Silver.dev
- Culture: Client reviews highlight a proactive, transparent, and collaborative team that “feels like an extension of the startup DNA.” High employee satisfaction with strong communication and adaptive problem-solving.
- Remote/Hybrid: The company has offices in San Francisco and Buenos Aires, but job postings are predominantly remote. The team is distributed across Argentina (85%) and the US.
- Perks & Engineering Culture: As a talent agency run by a former engineer, the company deeply understands engineering needs. Roles listed on their jobs board often include equity, bonuses, and equipment (MacBook). The small, lean team (11 people) offers fast-paced growth opportunities.