Senior Backend Engineer - High-Performance Rule Engine (Hybrid)

Amadeus; Bogotá; Hybrid; COP 90,000,000 - 150,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in Bogota

Health insurance

Professional development

Job summary

Amadeus is seeking a Software Development Engineer Specialist to join the ABR team in Bogota. You will design, build and evolve a high-performance rule engine and related APIs, taking ownership from design to production with autonomy.

This role emphasizes solving latency-critical problems, modernization work, mentoring peers, and contributing to robust testing, CI/CD and observability. We offer hybrid work in Bogota, competitive remuneration, benefits and strong career growth.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of backend software development experience.
• Experience with high-performance, low-latency, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven track record of designing and delivering large components or systems, including production.
• Fluent English, spoken and written.

Responsibilities

• Design and build large parts of the ABR platform.
• Own technical solutions from start to finish, from analysis and design to implementation, testing, and production.
• Solve complex technical problems related to performance, low latency, scalability, and caching.
• Lead modernization work such as the Forge migration, REST API enablement, and retiring legacy integrations.
• Keep production reliable by working with QA, change control (CCB), and on-call support, and by finding root causes of incidents.
• Improve observability and operational efficiency with better monitoring, automation, and AI-driven insights.
• Work with application teams, architects, and product stakeholders to turn business needs into sound technical designs.
• Influence technical decisions inside and outside the team, and help shape the platform's architecture and roadmap.
• Mentor and coach other engineers through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and good engineering practices such as TDD, clean code, and CI/CD.
• Lead working groups on projects with several workstreams when needed.

Skills

Backend development

Low latency

Distributed systems

C++

Java

Unix/Linux

SQL/Oracle

REST/JSON

CI/CD

TDD

English fluency

Education

BS/MS in CS/SE

Tools

Git

Bitbucket

Maven

Shell scripting

Job description

Amadeus is seeking a Software Development Engineer Specialist to join the ABR team in Bogota. You will design, build and evolve a high-performance rule engine and related APIs, taking ownership from design to production with autonomy.

This role emphasizes solving latency-critical problems, modernization work, mentoring peers, and contributing to robust testing, CI/CD and observability. We offer hybrid work in Bogota, competitive remuneration, benefits and strong career growth.