Silver.dev

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.

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