Working with large-scale distributed systems and understanding their broad architecture and trade-offs
Setting technical direction for multiple teams, ensuring alignment with Business Areas and architecture strategies
Driving pragmatic innovation while ensuring resilient, secure, and flexible solutions that scale across products and geographies
Mentoring engineers across teams and helping maintain a high technical bar organization-wide
Writing, testing, instrumenting, documenting, and maintaining high-quality code
Pairing and participating in code reviews to support the growth of others in and around your teams
Collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to build new end-to-end experiences
Ensuring comprehensive observability, performance monitoring, and robust error handling across team services
Participating in on-call rotations for your team and responding to incidents as necessary
Focusing primarily on backend applications, while being open to contributing to mobile and frontend development according to business needs

At least 8 years of experience developing digital products in complex environments
Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies
A proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale systems that serve thousands or millions of users
A strong background in object-oriented or functional programming languages, with the ability to work across multiple languages
Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple teams, even without direct authority
Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising the technical bar across organizations
Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and prior experience with CI/CD
Strong communication skills to identify and prevent risks, and explain trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Advanced English skills

Staff Software Engineer – Bogotá, Colombia

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