We are seeking a Mid-Level Engineer to support a live production hiring-event platform used by client-facing teams and end users. This role is highly production-focused and requires someone who can diagnose issues quickly, work across backend and frontend systems, collaborate with support and go-to-market teams, and take ownership of code changes from investigation through deployment.
Enterprise experience strongly preferred.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Analyze and resolve production issues related to live hiring events and event workflows.
- Debug malfunctioning or misconfigured product features across backend, frontend, data, and integration layers.
- Work closely with client-facing support teams and go-to-market stakeholders to triage and resolve support tickets.
- Monitor production systems and respond quickly to alerts, performance degradation, or system health concerns.
- Support timely issue resolution in alignment with established SLAs.
- Maintain and update event logic as dependencies, systems, and business requirements change.
- Support architecture changes and system integrations that may impact event functionality.
- Own code changes through build, merge, deployment, and post-deployment validation.
- Communicate clearly and concisely when working through ambiguous production issues.
- Use data and system signals to troubleshoot production behavior and identify root causes.
**Qualifications**:
- Must-Have Skills**
- 3-5 years of professional engineering experience.
- Strong Java and Spring Boot backend development experience.
- Django and Python backend development experience.
- React frontend development experience.




- Kafka experience.
- GraphQL experience.
- SQL or MongoDB experience.
- Build and deployment experience.
- Production debugging, triage, and issue-resolution experience.
- Ability to ramp up quickly and assume ownership across multiple projects.
- High level of autonomy and ownership.
- Experience with at least one of the following: Dagster, Data Lakes, or Amazon Athena.
- Ability to work independently and take initiative without heavy hand-holding.
- Strong prioritization and strategic thinking skills.
- Strong communication skills, especially in ambiguous or urgent production-support situations.
- Experience using data to troubleshoot production issues.
**- Nice-to-Have Skills**
- Product management experience working with go-to-market teams and engineers on prioritization.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf.
- Experience supporting client-facing or business-critical production products.
- Experience collaborating with support, operations, or go-to-market teams.
- Experience owning merge and deployment responsibilities in a production environment.
**Additional Information**:
- Required Tools & Platforms**
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Django
- Python
- React
- Kafka
- GraphQL
- SQL
- MongoDB
- Dagster, Data Lakes, or Amazon Athena
- Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf preferred
**- Location, Time & Engagement**
- Remote contract role.
- Full-time allocation, 40 hours per week.
- Must be able to support U.S. time zone coverage across PST, MST, CST, or EST.
- Engagement expected to run through .

📌 119771 - Mid-level Engineer (Ciudad de México)
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