Senior Software Developer- Brazil

Descartes Unites the People and Technology that Move the World

The need for efficient, secure, and agile supply chains and logistics operations has become ever more critical and complex.  By combining innovative technology, powerful trade intelligence and the reach of our network, Descartes helps get goods, information, transportation assets, and people where they’re needed, when they’re needed. 

We’re one of the most broadly deployed logistics and supply chain technology companies in the world. More than 26,000 customers around the globe use our cloud-based solutions to transform the way they move inventory and information to enhance productivity, better serve customers, thrive competitively, keep pace with evolving regulations, and respond to rapidly changing market conditions. Descartes is publicly traded (Nasdaq:DSGX, TSX:DSG) with headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and offices and partners around the world. With record financial performance for more than 16 years, we lead the industry in innovation investment. Every day, logistics service providers, manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and other logistics-intensive businesses of all sizes rely on our scale, stability, and comprehensive solution footprint to move what’s most important to them. Learn more at www.descartes.com. 
 
We’re growing fast and invite you to join our amazing team. 

The Safety Suite team is passionate about developing the end-to-end SaaS platform that our customers depend on for managing their drivers. This team collaborates with product management, customer success, and leadership to innovatively deliver new products, iterate on existing features, and tackle tech debt for customers. As a Senior Software Developer focused on the front end, you’ll be a technical leader on the team: setting the bar for code quality, mentoring other developers, and helping shape how we build software with AI agents. Those interested in this role require commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and high-quality work.

WHAT YOU’LL DO 

• Deliver valuable features and enhancements to our customers DAILY
• Develop quality front-end code that is scalable, readable, and flexible enough to adapt to changing requirements
• Use AI coding agents as a core part of your daily workflow, delegating work to agents and reviewing and validating their output so we ship faster without sacrificing quality
• Collaborate with UX and product management to understand the customer experience and turn user stories into delivered features
• Ideate and drive user experience in conjunction with product management to make features intuitive, enjoyable and accessible
• Drive front-end best practices, design patterns, and architecture decisions across the team
• Mentor and grow other developers through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing, including how to work effectively with AI agents
• Partner with other engineers, QA, and DevOps in a team-first environment to build and maintain customer-facing applications with a high degree of ownership
• Support and develop our technical culture by being engaged, intellectually curious, friendly, and motivated to solve complex problems
  Work on any task and help solve problems when needed

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

• 7+ years of front-end development experience
• Proven expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS and DOM manipulation
• Deep experience with React.js and its core principles
• Experience with Redux and data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Hands-on experience using AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) in day-to-day development, including critically reviewing and validating agent-generated code
• Experience guiding AI agents with clear context, specifications, and instructions to produce maintainable, well-tested code
• Experience writing unit, integration, and end-to-end test code
• Experience providing peer code reviews
• Experience mentoring and growing junior developers
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum and CI/CD
• Experience working with RESTful APIs
• Experience working with UI mockups
• Familiarity with Git
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to work in a collaborative and fast-paced environment

WHAT WILL SET YOU APART 

• Experience driving best practices and design patterns within an organization
• Experience fostering a technology community of knowledge sharing and collaboration
• Experience establishing team standards for AI-assisted development, such as review practices, guardrails, and shared agent configurations
• Experience building AI-powered features or agentic workflows into products (e.g., integrating LLM APIs or the Model Context Protocol)
• Experience working with React Testing Library
• Experience with containers (Docker/Kubernetes) and the AWS ecosystem
• Familiarity with backend technologies such as Java, Scala and Python
• Familiarity with SQL and relational database concepts

Salary Range: This is a CLT position and the comp range is R$15,000 to R$ 20,000 Brazilian Rials per month. Compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for this position only. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills as well as the years of experience you have. Similar positions located in different geographic regions will not necessarily receive the same compensation or same currency.

Join Us

As we scale, we’re looking for new doers, collaborators and innovators to join Descartes in uniting the people and technology that move the world as the Global Leader in Logistics and Supply Chain Technology. We’re entrepreneurial, hardworking, geeky-in-a-good way problem solvers. Guided by our values, we nurture a TEAM focused culture that invests in people and creates opportunities for advancement across a broad spectrum of career paths. We prioritize work-life balance and foster an environment with the space to take ownership, to be heard, and to carve a path for your individual accomplishments to help drive our success. At Descartes, everyone has a voice and the best idea wins, regardless of who makes it. We offer competitive compensation, great benefits, remote and flexible work hours, and the opportunity to join a company on an awesome mission with a great existing team and trajectory. 

Descartes also has a deep sense of environmental responsibility. Learn more about how we helped our customers save over 552,000 metric tons of CO2 in 2020 by reducing fuel and paper consumption: https://www.descartes.com/who-we-are/social-responsibility-sustainability/environmental-impact.  Join a team that’s committed to working with customers to conserve resources and enhance sustainability. 

If you feel you have 70% of the qualifications we are looking for, and Descartes sounds like the team and the mission you want to be part of, apply now. We can't promise it will be a fit, but we do promise to consider your experience. 

We conduct a mix of in-person and virtual interviews. Virtual interviews are held via Microsoft Teams and are recorded and transcribed. We may utilize AI tools to support our hiring team in notetaking, summarization, and internal training. AI tools are not used in our recruitment process for decision-making purposes. Recordings, transcripts, and notes are used for recruitment, including improvement of our process, and record-keeping purposes. Should you have any questions or concerns about our process, please connect with our hiring team in advance of scheduled interviews. 

We are an Equal Employment employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, or local law. For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please review our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at Descartes.com