Senior Software Engineer

Cobre; Bogotá; On-site; COP 120,000,000 - 190,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cobre is seeking a Senior Software Developer in Bogotá to drive the full software development lifecycle, from requirements to design, coding, testing and delivery. You will collaborate across product, security, and architecture teams to build scalable, observable, and secure payment platforms.

You should have 5+ years in Java Spring Boot with 2+ years in Python, plus hands-on experience in cloud-native microservices, AWS deployments, and CI/CD automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on coding in Java Spring Boot.
• 2+ years building cloud-native, event-driven microservices on AWS.
• Experience with CI/CD and IaC.
• Experience with highly concurrent processing platforms, preferably in payments.
• Strong communication skills and ability to mentor.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, develop, test, and implement code to adapt to business requirements.
• Collaborate with product, security, architecture, and performance teams to deliver high-quality software.
• Define, implement, and maintain monitoring and observability strategies.
• Review code with peers and provide feedback to ensure best practices.
• Coordinate deployments and ensure readiness and timely delivery.
• Lead design reviews to decide the best scalable solutions.

Skills

Java Spring Boot

Python

Cloud-native

Microservices

AWS

CI/CD

DevOps

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

What is Cobre, and what do we do?

Cobre is Latin America's leading instant b2b payments platform. We solve the region's most complex money movement challenges by building advanced financial infrastructure that enables companies to move money faster, safer, and more efficiently.

We enable instant business payments-local or international, direct or via API-all from a single platform.

Built for fintechs, PSPs, banks, and finance teams that demand speed, control, and efficiency. From real-time payments to automated treasury, we turn complex financial processes into simple experiences.

Cobre is the first platform in Colombia to enable companies to pay both banked and unbanked beneficiaries within the same payment cycle and through a single interface.

We are building the enterprise payments infrastructure of Latin America!

What we are looking for:

As a Senior Software Developer, you will play a key role in the complete software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis to design, coding, testing, and implementation.

What would you be doing:

• Analyze, develop, test, and write code necessary to adapt to business requirements.
• Analyze and resolve platform issues by identifying the root causes and their effects on hardware, network, service operations, and overall quality.
• Define, implement, and maintain monitoring and observability strategies (metrics, logging, alerting) to ensure system health and performance.
• Review code developed by other engineers, providing feedback to ensure adherence to the best practices.
• Collaborate across teams on product, security, architecture, and performance to deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Ability to code/develop and build/deploy the necessary solution within our existing environments, identifying and managing delivery risks, proactively removing blockers, promoting continuous delivery practices.
• Actively participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide the best solution, ensuring scalability and resiliency.
• Be a mentor to your team members.
• Drive the delivery process, coordinating deployments, validating readiness, and ensuring alignment with delivery timelines and business goals.
• Managed task planning.

What do you need:

• 5+ years of experience proficiently writing code in Java Spring Boot, and 2+ with Python (additional programming languages are a plus).
• 3+ years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching cloud-native, event-driven, and microservices applications (deployment over AWS environments is preferred).
• 2+ years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Direct experience working on highly concurrent processing platforms, ideally in the payment industry (processors, PSPs, processing gateways, Exchanges, etc).
• Understanding of DevOps best practices, IaC, and cloud-first software development
• Experience in CI/CD concept, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization
• Experience working with complex real-time distributed systems
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

If you're seeking an exciting next step that would both challenge and thrill you, then this opportunity is for you!