Remote AWS Backend Tech Lead — Architect, Mentor, Innovate

OpenKrill; United States; On-site; USD 37,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Caseware is seeking a Senior Software Developer III to lead architectural decisions and mentor engineers in a fully remote role based in Colombia. You will shape platform architecture, guide AI-assisted development workflows, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate technical decisions into business value.

You will influence the SDLC, improve scalability of a cloud-native SaaS platform, and drive reliability, observability, and secure integration with external systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience with impact beyond a single team.
• Experience designing and operating distributed, cloud-native SaaS platforms at scale, ideally on AWS.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with ambiguity and evolving requirements.

Responsibilities

• Create architecture, prototypes, and design proposals delivering near-term business value while aligning with long-term product vision.
• Influence technical direction through architecture reviews, RFCs, and hands-on collaboration.
• Partner with senior developers and tech leads to define and execute the product/platform architecture roadmap.
• Mentor other developers through design reviews and AI-assisted development practices.
• Contribute to improving CI/CD pipelines, observability, and overall SDLC.

Skills

8+ years software development

Distributed cloud-native SaaS

Agentic-AI practices

HTTP APIs (REST/GraphQL)

Mentoring engineers

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Caseware is seeking a Senior Software Developer III to lead architectural decisions and mentor engineers in a fully remote role based in Colombia. You will shape platform architecture, guide AI-assisted development workflows, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate technical decisions into business value.

You will influence the SDLC, improve scalability of a cloud-native SaaS platform, and drive reliability, observability, and secure integration with external systems.