Ruan Ferreira
@ruan_ferreira
Senior back-end software engineer crafting scalable payment microservices and reliable systems.
What I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Back-end Software Engineer who designed and owned a high-throughput payment microservice supporting multiple payment methods—processing 60k+ orders and 100M+ BRL. I proactively removed performance bottlenecks to deliver 100% uptime during Black Friday, even with a 3× increase in peak traffic, and I partnered with product managers to estimate engineering effort and improve roadmap prioritization.
I’ve built reliability into how I work: I established CI/CD and continuous improvement practices to enable multiple daily deployments and reduced rollbacks to near zero. I also served as a technical reference through architectural guidance, code reviews, and ongoing feedback to improve code quality and team performance, while standardizing backend architecture by introducing NestJS across microservices. Earlier in my journey, I shipped full-stack work at Incentive.me—building an end-to-end compensation calculation engine and later leading a v2 delivery after successful client renewals.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Back-end Engineer
Grupo Soma
Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 5 months)
Designed and owned a high-throughput payment microservice supporting multiple payment methods, processing 60k+ orders and 100M+ BRL. Improved partner codebase to remove performance bottlenecks, maintaining 100% uptime during Black Friday with 3× peak traffic.
Full Stack Software Engineer
Incentive.me
Apr 2021 - Jan 2024 (2 years 9 months)
Built an end-to-end compensation calculation engine, owning frontend, backend, and core business logic, and later led delivery of v2 after client renewals. Standardized backend architecture by introducing NestJS across microservices, improving maintainability and accelerating new API development.
Full Stack Intern
Incentive.me
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021 (3 months)
Developed production applications using Node.js and Python and contributed to asynchronous systems within a microservices architecture. Worked in an agile environment using Scrum and Kanban principles.
Education
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Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ)
Bachelor of Science, Information Systems
2018 - 2026
Completed a B.S. in Information Systems at UFRRJ from 2018 to 2026. Established CI/CD and continuous improvement practices and served as a technical reference through code reviews and architectural guidance.
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