Senior Java/AWS Engineer

Intellias; Colombia; On-site; COP 133,920,000 - 200,880,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, life, funerary and pet insurance

Workation up to 90 days outside Colombia

Training and certifications

100% work from home + internet subsidy

Job summary

A technology services company is seeking a senior backend developer with extensive experience in Java, Spring Boot, and event-driven architectures. This role is fully remote with an indefinite contract based in Colombia. Responsibilities include designing secure backend services and maintaining data flows. Applicants should have strong database skills and the ability to work with US Central Time during business hours. Benefits include health insurance, paid training, and a flexible work-life balance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining backend services and distributed systems.
• Ability to provide 6 hours overlap with US Central Time (CT) on business days.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Spring Boot–based services for processing event-driven data.
• Build secure, scalable backend services exposing internal and external APIs.
• Maintain clear documentation and promote engineering best practices.

Skills

Java 21

Spring Boot 3.x

Docker

AWS Kinesis

Test automation with Cucumber and JUnit

JPA/Hibernate

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Job description

Benefits

• Indefinite contract with Intellias Colombia SAS, payment in COP
• Health, life, funerary and pet insurance for the employee
• Workation up to 90 days outside Colombia
• Training and certifications
• 100% work from home + internet subsidy

Requirements

• 8+ years designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining backend services and distributed systems in production: Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x, Docker
• Strong experience with event-driven architectures using AWS Kinesis
• Test automation with Cucumber and JUnit
• Experience with JPA/Hibernate
• Hands‑on experience with one GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps pipelines
• Strong database design skills with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB, including schema optimization and performance tuning
• Ability to provide 6 hours overlap with US Central Time (CT) on business days
• Nice to have:
  • Experience in processing and enriching event/telemetry data
  • Experience with Spring Cloud
  • Experience with JOOQ and Flyway

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Spring Boot–based services for ingesting and processing event-driven data
• Build secure, scalable backend services exposing internal and external APIs
• Consume, parse, and enrich Kinesis event streams with domain and geospatial metadata
• Maintain and optimize PostgreSQL/PostGIS schemas across multiple data domains
• Support reliable data flow between streaming pipelines and operational data stores
• Apply monitoring, logging, and alerting best practices using AWS
• Contribute to CI/CD modernization via Azure DevOps
• Maintain clear documentation and promote engineering best practices