--- title: 'Senior Backend Engineer at Tractian' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-backend-engineer-tractian-sao-paulo-0st320kt5wkw' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-13' --- # Senior Backend Engineer at Tractian - **Company:** Tractian - **Location:** São Paulo, Brazil - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-06-18 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/tractian-technologies-inc-/am9icG9zdDoudAAnnbo8VHWj2UocELxS ## Job description Engineering at Tractian At Tractian, the Backend Engineering team plays a critical role in building and scaling the infrastructure that powers our entire platform: from our advanced monitoring products to our CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System). We design and develop robust systems that handle large volumes of real-time and historical data from industrial assets. Our team is responsible for crafting and maintaining data-intensive microservices, resilient APIs, and scalable ETL pipelines. We work across multiple domains: from designing relational and non-relational database schemas to implementing event-driven architectures and optimizing performance under high-throughput workloads. As part of a product-led company, Backend Engineers at Tractian operate with strong ownership. We collaborate closely with firmware, frontend, data, and product teams to deliver high-impact features that directly improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and modernize industrial operations. ## What you'll do As a Backend Software Engineer at our company, you will design and build critical APIs, microservices, and ETLs that power our core products, from industrial monitoring systems to our CMMS platform. You’ll play a key role in evolving our backend architecture to meet the demands of scale, performance, and product excellence. Your work will directly impact thousands of users across industries that rely on us to keep their operations running. ## Responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain data-intensive, high-performance backend services based on an event-driven architecture. - Develop and maintain APIs and services that power both real-time monitoring features and complex maintenance workflows. - Work closely with a cross-functional team to ensure our backend applications align with the overall product vision and user experience goals. - Optimize applications and data processing workflows for performance, focusing on enhancing speed, efficiency, and reliability across various operating environments - Continuously evolve our systems through refactoring, introducing best practices, and improving maintainability and observability. - Document architectural decisions and technical implementations clearly for the team and future maintainers. ## Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. - 5+ years of backend development experience, with a strong focus developing user-facing products. - Solid experience in event-driven applications using messaging technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, BullMQ or similar. - Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Node.js, and/or Rust. - Deep understanding of microservices architecture and distributed system design. - Proficiency in both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, ClickHouse) and non-relational databases (e.g., ScyllaDB, Cassandra,, MongoDB), with a focus on performance and scalability. - Experience building mission-critical backend services in high-growth, product-driven environments. - Fluency in Portuguese. Bonus points - Contributions to open-source or personal projects demonstrating backend architecture or data processing expertise. - Fluency in English. ## Compensation & Benefits - Competitive Compensation - 30 days of paid annual leave - Education and courses stipend - Earn a trip anywhere in the world every 4 years - R$1.035/month for meals allowance - Health plan with national coverage and without coparticipation - Dental Insurance: we help you with dental treatment for a better quality of life. - Wellhub Membership: Access a wide range of gyms and training programs. ## About Tractian ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Tractian is an industrial operating system company that combines AI-driven hardware, software, and sensor technology to predict machine failures, eliminate production downtime, and boost operational efficiency for factories worldwide. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, $120M raised as of December 2024) - **Headquarters**: Atlanta, Georgia, United States (with a significant hub and co-origin office in São Paulo, Brazil) - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Igor Marinelli (CEO and Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Industrial IoT, Predictive Maintenance, Asset Condition Monitoring, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing Software - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, Industrial operators (manufacturing plants, shop floors, maintenance teams) - **Mission**: To eliminate production downtime and elevate human potential in factories worldwide — bridging the gap between humans and machines by making maintenance and reliability a streamlined, cost-efficient advantage. ## Products & Services - **Tractian Asset Condition Monitoring Platform**: An end-to-end software solution that tracks, prioritizes, and acts on machine health data, providing clear priorities, reduced downtime, and higher uptime. - **Industrial-Grade Sensors**: Hardware devices built for accuracy and high-fidelity data collection on machine vibration, temperature, and other condition metrics. - **Industrial Copilot (AI)**: A GPT-based, specialized AI assistant that generates specific, actionable insights tailored to industrial environments, avoiding the context and accuracy issues of generic large language models. - **Assisted Maintenance**: A category pioneered by Tractian, using AI to identify problems on machines and suggest preventive actions, supporting maintenance professionals in real time. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company); raised $120M in Series C in December 2024. - **Key Metric**: Total funding across 7+ rounds includes a $120M Series C (Dec 2024), a BRL 230M Series B (Aug 2023), and earlier seed rounds; annual revenue not publicly available (reported as $5M by a third-party aggregator, but considered a low estimate not confirmed by the company). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investor names not fully listed in public sources, but the Series C round included 4 investors and the Series B had 8 investors; the company has raised from multiple funds across its history. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew 51.4% YoY to 405 employees (with 287 net-new hires) - Ranked #24 Fastest-Growing Company in North America - 126 active job openings at time of research - 110,000+ LinkedIn followers, growing 20.1% yearly - Customers' operations generate over 5% of global industrial GDP - Clients see 6–12x ROI, with an average of $6,000 saved per monitored machine annually ## Competitive Advantages - **Only end-to-end platform** in the market that combines hardware sensors, software, and AI to prevent machine failures and protect production. - **Specialized AI for industry**: Unlike generic LLMs, Tractian’s Industrial Copilot is trained/contextualized for industrial environments, providing precise, accurate, and actionable insights. - **First-mover category leadership**: Pioneered the "Assisted Maintenance" category and is recognized as a leader in IoT and Asset Management. - **Deep industry expertise**: Built by and staffed with people who understand shop-floor challenges, ensuring the product is practical and adopted by frontline workers. ## Strategic Focus - Scaling its position as the **Industrial Copilot** — moving beyond predictive maintenance to a broader AI-driven operational copilot that drives direct ROI. - Expanding global footprint across North America, South America, and Europe (with existing offices in Atlanta, São Paulo, Germany, and Spain). - Growing engineering, data, and go-to-market teams to accelerate product development and market penetration. - Continuing to digitize the largely undigitized industrial sector, enabling AI-driven optimization for manufacturing plants of all sizes. ## Why Work Here - **Meaningful work**: Directly empower the industrial and frontline workers who keep the global economy moving. - **High-growth environment**: 51%+ yearly headcount growth and strong external recognition make this a fast-moving, high-visibility place to build a career. - **Engineering culture**: Hardware developers, data scientists, and software engineers build cutting-edge technology from scratch on complex, hard-to-solve problems. - **Values ("Blue Caps")**: Customer obsession, transparency, ownership, demanding-and-supportive leadership, and uncompromising quality. - **Flexibility**: Work types include Remote, Hybrid, and On-site roles, depending on position and location. - **Compensation & culture**: Employee reviews show a 4.0/5.0 overall rating, with strong marks for compensation (4.5) and career development (4.1). - **Open technical roles**: Actively hiring for Analytics Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, Senior Frontend Software Engineer, and more. ## Sources 1. [tractian.com/en/about](https://tractian.com/en/about) 2. [tractian.com/en](https://tractian.com/en) 3. [careers.tractian.com](https://careers.tractian.com/) 4. [linkedin.com/company/tractian](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tractian) 5. 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