Senior Software Engineer – Bogotá, Colombia

Jobtailor; Bogotá; Presencial; COP 90.000.000 - 140.000.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Jobtailor is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead the technical direction of distributed systems and microservices. You will design scalable architectures, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and design teams to deliver robust, observable services.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding across the backend, with a focus on performance, reliability, and CI/CD practices. Strong communication skills are essential to align stakeholders across geographies.

Formación

• At least 6 years of experience developing digital products in complex environments.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies.
• A proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale systems that serve thousands or millions of users.
• A strong background in object-oriented or functional programming languages, with the ability to work across multiple languages.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives end-to-end within a team and in collaboration with partner teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar in their teams.
• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and prior experience with CI/CD.
• Strong communication skills to identify and prevent risks, and explain trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Advanced English skills

Responsabilidades

• Working with large-scale distributed systems and understanding their broad architecture and trade-offs
• Leading technical direction for your team and partnering with adjacent teams to keep solutions aligned with our architecture and business strategy
• Driving pragmatic innovation while ensuring resilient, secure, and flexible solutions that scale across products and geographies
• Mentoring engineers within and around your team and helping maintain a high technical bar
• Writing, testing, instrumenting, documenting, and maintaining high-quality code
• Pairing and participating in code reviews to support the growth of others in and around your team
• Collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to build new end-to-end experiences
• Ensuring comprehensive observability, performance monitoring, and robust error handling across your team’s services
• Participating in on-call rotations for your team and responding to incidents as necessary
• Focusing primarily on backend applications, while being open to contributing to mobile and frontend development according to business needs

Conocimientos

Distributed systems

Microservices

Cloud technologies

OOP / FP languages

Leadership

Mentoring engineers

Agile / CI/CD

Communication

English proficiency

Descripción del empleo

Responsibilities

• Working with large-scale distributed systems and understanding their broad architecture and trade-offs
• Leading technical direction for your team and partnering with adjacent teams to keep solutions aligned with our architecture and business strategy
• Driving pragmatic innovation while ensuring resilient, secure, and flexible solutions that scale across products and geographies
• Mentoring engineers within and around your team and helping maintain a high technical bar
• Writing, testing, instrumenting, documenting, and maintaining high-quality code
• Pairing and participating in code reviews to support the growth of others in and around your team
• Collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to build new end-to-end experiences
• Ensuring comprehensive observability, performance monitoring, and robust error handling across your team’s services
• Participating in on-call rotations for your team and responding to incidents as necessary
• Focusing primarily on backend applications, while being open to contributing to mobile and frontend development according to business needs

Demonstrates deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies, with a strong ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers. Proficient in writing high-quality code and ensuring robust performance monitoring and observability across services.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience developing digital products in complex environments
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud technologies
• A proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale systems that serve thousands or millions of users
• A strong background in object-oriented or functional programming languages, with the ability to work across multiple languages
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives end-to-end within a team and in collaboration with partner teams
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar in their teams
• Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies and prior experience with CI/CD
• Strong communication skills to identify and prevent risks, and explain trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Advanced English skills