Backend Engineer (Java/Kotlin) – AWS & Spring Boot

AgileEngine, LLC.; Medellín; Hybrid; COP 284,783,000 - 411,353,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive pay

Exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

AgileEngine is seeking a Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable systems for a Product-led engineering team. You will work in Java and/or Kotlin with Spring Boot, GraphQL, MongoDB Atlas, and Aurora MySQL on AWS, delivering reliable services and tooling.

Join a people-first culture that values observability, cost-savings, and compliance work. You’ll collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to ship high-performance solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years backend-focused software development experience.
• Proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin.
• Proficiency in MongoDB Atlas (NoSQL).
• Proficiency in Aurora MySQL on AWS.
• Experience building cloud-native distributed systems on AWS.
• Experience with Spring Boot.
• API development with GraphQL (Netflix DGS).
• Experience building and operating large-scale, high-performance systems on a major cloud platform.
• Upper-intermediate English level.

Responsibilities

• Take on lower-priority engineering work the team lacks bandwidth for, including compliance and engineering maintenance, cost-savings, observability, experiment clean-up, and operational tool development.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, performant, and reliable software systems.
• Contribute to system architecture and technical design, validating solutions through data and experimentation where appropriate.
• Participate in code reviews and design reviews to maintain high engineering standards.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners, including software engineers, product managers, data scientists, and designers.
• Partner with a Product Manager and fellow engineers to clarify requirements and perform mid-level design work, focusing primarily on coding, testing, and documentation.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Spring Boot

GraphQL

AWS

NoSQL: MongoDB

SQL: Aurora MySQL

Distributed systems

English: Upper-intermediate

Tools

MongoDB Atlas

Aurora MySQL on AWS

GraphQL (Netflix DGS)

Kafka/SQS

Terraform

gRPC/REST

Job description

AgileEngine is seeking a Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable systems for a Product-led engineering team. You will work in Java and/or Kotlin with Spring Boot, GraphQL, MongoDB Atlas, and Aurora MySQL on AWS, delivering reliable services and tooling.

Join a people-first culture that values observability, cost-savings, and compliance work. You’ll collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to ship high-performance solutions.