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title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Swile'
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# Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Swile

- **Company:** Swile
- **Location:** Brasil
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2024-04-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/swile/c7c29d73-95fe-4680-93fd-4c2c19b1d6e9

## Job description

## About us ✨

At Swile, we believe that good products can help reduce friction in daily professional life and boost employee satisfaction. Today, we provide innovative solutions in various areas such as Fintech, Travel, HR, and Employee Benefits to more than 5.5 million users in 85,000 companies in France and Brazil.

## About the role 🔥

For those who are passionate about continuous improvement, this position is for you. This software engineer will help our developers optimize our current app integrating best practices—whether in a single line of code or the entire architecture. Autonomy goes hand in hand with communication. Being a Senior Software Engineer at Swile means positively impacting the lives of our clients and users by making data-driven decisions and ensuring efficiency, stability, and performance in our applications. By translating product visions into software, we solve complex problems that enable a unique, stable, and functional experience for everyone. As backend engineers, we work on applications such as REST APIs, dashboards, tools, and internal services that allow our clients and users to access their benefits flexibly, easily, and reliably whenever needed.

Main responsibilities 🧩

Software Engineering Write high-quality, well-documented, efficient, tested, and maintainable code Ensure and improve observability and monitoring of our applications Proactively focus on enhancing other team members’ technical skills, coding standards, and overall code quality Learn new programming languages when needed Actively work on improving the security, performance, and stability of applications Conduct and receive high-quality code reviews Design and Architecture Provide technical guidance by contributing to informed, objective, and simple solution discussions Propose architectural solutions, collaborating and mentoring other team members to meet both functional and non-functional requirements Execution and Delivery Estimate and plan timelines for deliverables with stakeholders and the product team Leverage existing Swile solutions to align with global platforms Work with loosely defined or ambiguous requirements to help shape better solutions alongside product and team members Build incremental solutions with the product team to promote continuous improvement and delivery Focus on delivering well-tested and automated features, including E2E tests, to ensure application stability Monitor and respond to incidents in production Leadership Lead projects, ensuring delivery within estimated timelines Help technically grow team members by being a role model Participate in hiring processes for engineers at the same or lower levels

## Minimum Requirements ✅

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields—or equivalent practical experience Professional experience in software engineering using Java or Kotlin

## Experience in designing and developing distributed systems

Experience with technologies such as Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar

## Experience with relational and non-relational databases

Clear and effective communication skills Advanced English C1 level

Sobre nossos valores

- 💜 We are team players: nós nos importamos com nossos colegas e navegamos bem entre áreas
- 🏋 We are doers: temos ano nível de autonomia e entregamos resultados tangível
- 🏄 We move fast: identificamos corretamente as prioridades e assumimos a iniciativa
- 📣 We are ambassadors: entendemos sobre o mercado, o produto e estamos alinhados em torno da mesma visão
- 🍔 We stay hungry: somos resilientes e gostamos de aprender e compartilhar conhecimento
- 🥰 We cherish our values : abrimos mão do ego e aceitamos feedbacks como um presente

O que oferecemos:

- [💳](https://emojiterra.com/pt/cartao-de-credito/) Pacote de benefícios flexíveis super atraentes para você usar como quiser (flexfood, mobilidade, cultura, educação, etc) dentro do cartão Swile;
- [💸](https://emojiterra.com/pt/dinheiro-voando/) Bônus
- [🏠](https://emojiterra.com/pt/casa/) Auxílio Home-office
- [👩‍⚕️](https://emojiterra.com/pt/mulher-profissional-da-saude/) Plano de Saúde e Odontológico sem coparticipação;
- [💪](https://emojis.wiki/pt/musculos/) TotalPass (acesso às melhores academias e estúdios)
- 🗣️ Aulas de inglês ou Francês.
- [💊](https://emojiterra.com/pt/comprimido/) Auxilio farmária
- [🧠](https://emojipedia.org/pt/c%C3%A9rebro/) Saúde emocional (sessões de terapia gratuitas com um de nossos parceiros)
- 💰 Swile Shop (desconto em mais de [1.100](http://1.0.0.100/) lojas e restaurantes)
- [💻](https://emojiterra.com/pt/pc/) Trabalho Full Remoto

Nós abraçamos e incentivamos a diversidade e inclusão no nosso time, então, sinta-se livre para ser quem você é junto à nós 🌈

## About Swile

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Swile is a French worktech company that provides an all-in-one employee benefits platform through a smart card and mobile app designed to simplify and digitize salary-linked benefits like meal vouchers, gift cards, mobility, and culture checks.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Unicorn, achieved profitability)
- **Headquarters**: Montpellier, France
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Loïc Soubeyrand

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Worktech (Employee Benefits, Fintech, HR Tech)
- **Target customers**: B2B, serving companies of all sizes (from SMBs to large enterprises) in France and Brazil, including clients like Carrefour, Le Monde, JCDecaux, PSG, Airbnb, Spotify, and TikTok.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To reinforce employee engagement and spread smiles at work by offering a unified, personalized, and modern experience that meets everyone's needs.

## Products & Services
- **[Swile Card]**: A physical and digital smart card that consolidates all employee salary benefits (meal vouchers, gift cards, mobility allowances, culture checks) into a single payment method. Backed by proprietary "Smartcard" technology.
- **[Swile App]**: A mobile application that allows employees to manage their benefits, view transactions, and personalize their experience. High user ratings (4.7/5 on Google Play, 4.7/5 on Trustpilot, NPS of +65).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Achieved unicorn status (valuation over €1 billion). Recent valuation not publicly disclosed as a private company.
- **Key Metric**: Achieved centaur status (over €100 million in annual recurring revenue) following the acquisition of Bimpli in December 2022. The company is now profitable.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Raised multiple funding rounds from leading investors (specific names not detailed in the provided sources, but described as "first-rank investors").
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 1 out of every 3 meal voucher card transactions in France is made with a Swile card.
  - Successful acquisition and integration of Bimpli, pushing ARR over €100M and enabling profitability.
  - Expansion into the Brazilian market.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Smartcard Technology**: An exclusive innovation that powers the unified benefits experience.
- **Unified Platform**: Swile aggregates all common employee benefits (meal, gift, mobility, culture) into one card and app, simplifying administration for companies and usage for employees.
- **Strong Brand and Trust**: Very high user ratings across app stores and review platforms, indicating high employee satisfaction.
- **Market Leadership in France**: Dominant position in the French meal voucher market with significant market share.

## Strategic Focus
- **International Expansion**: Operating in both France and Brazil, with ambitions to grow further.
- **Product Ecosystem Expansion**: Continuing to enhance the unified platform with new features and benefits categories.
- **Profitability and Sustainable Growth**: Having reached profitability, the focus is on maintaining healthy financials while scaling.
- **Responsible Business (RSE)**: Pursuing B Corp certification, committed to the Science-Based Target Initiative (SBTi), and holding an Ecovadis Silver Medal. Their strategy "Sustainable Swile 2025" drives environmental and social impact.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as both "profoundly benevolent and extremely demanding," valuing autonomy and initiative-taking. Core values include "We are team players," "We are doers," "We move fast," "We are ambassadors," and "We stay hungry."
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: The company has both on-site roles (e.g., São Paulo) and roles with remote potential. Specific policy details would depend on the role and team.
- **Notable Perks**: An employee benefits package that starts with their own product—the Swile Card and App. The company strongly emphasizes professional equality (gender equality index score of 90/100), diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- **Engineering Culture**: A focus on "moving fast," testing, learning from failure, and high ambition without boundaries. The recruitment process for technical roles includes a practical test and multiple team interviews.

## Sources
1. [Swile Careers Page](https://jobs.lever.co/swile/)
2. [Swile Corporate - About Us](https://www.swile.co/a-propos-de-swile)
3. [Swile Product Page](https://www.swile.co/)
4. [Welcome to the Jungle - Swile Jobs](https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/companies/swile/jobs)

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