AI-Native Senior/Staff Engineer — Remote LATAM Impact

Newsela Inc.; Neuquén; Remote; ARS 127,187,000 - 275,571,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payment in USD

Remote work

Argentina holidays

English classes

Referral program

Learning platforms access

Job summary

Darwoft in LATAM seeks a Senior/Staff Software Engineer for an AI-native SaaS platform. This remote, contractor role welcomes candidates anywhere in LATAM who can own technical architecture and deliver production-grade software.

The role focuses on navigating a large codebase, designing scalable features, and leveraging AI coding agents to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality. You will collaborate with product leadership and engineers to drive architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience building and operating production software systems.
• Excellent software engineering fundamentals, including architecture, system design, debugging, testing, and maintainability.
• Experience working with large or complex existing codebases.
• Strong backend or full-stack engineering experience using modern programming languages and frameworks.
• Experience building modern web applications and SaaS products.
• Strong understanding of APIs, application architecture, integrations, data modeling, and distributed systems.
• Experience with relational databases and production data environments.
• Strong understanding of automated testing and modern software development practices.
• Familiarity with cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and production operations.

Responsibilities

• Navigate, understand, and evolve a large existing production codebase.
• Design and implement new product capabilities across a complex SaaS platform.
• Make pragmatic architectural and system design decisions as the product continues to scale.
• Identify technical debt, architectural risks, reliability issues, and opportunities for improvement.
• Use Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, or similar AI coding agents extensively throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Leverage AI agents to explore codebases, design implementations, generate and refactor code, debug issues, write tests, and accelerate delivery.
• Build and evolve backend services, APIs, integrations, data models, and application workflows.
• Contribute across the application stack when needed.
• Strengthen automated testing, maintainability, observability, reliability, and production readiness.
• Improve development workflows, tooling, automation, and engineering practices.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across application, data, and infrastructure layers.
• Balance development speed with software quality and long-term maintainability.
• Work closely with product leadership to translate business problems into effective technical solutions.
• Help a small engineering team achieve significantly greater development leverage through AI-assisted engineering.

Skills

Production software

Architecture design

Large codebases

Backend engineering

Web apps

APIs

Distributed systems

Cloud environments

CI/CD

Tools

Claude Code

OpenAI Codex

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Windsurf

Job description

Darwoft in LATAM seeks a Senior/Staff Software Engineer for an AI-native SaaS platform. This remote, contractor role welcomes candidates anywhere in LATAM who can own technical architecture and deliver production-grade software.

The role focuses on navigating a large codebase, designing scalable features, and leveraging AI coding agents to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality. You will collaborate with product leadership and engineers to drive architectural decisions.