Staff Engineer (Ingeniero Staff)

Accountabilities:

• Lead cross-team architecture and system design for initiatives spanning multiple product pods, services, APIs, data models, and event flows.

• Define and promote engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, security, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

• Remain hands-on by writing meaningful production code, contributing to pull requests, pairing with engineers, and participating in technical reviews.

• Drive technical strategy in partnership with engineering leadership and product stakeholders, making trade-offs around sequencing, technical debt, platform investments, and system evolution.

• Create clear technical design documents and RFCs that enable teams to understand, challenge, and execute architectural decisions.

• Mentor Senior and Mid-level engineers through design reviews, technical pairing, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

• Provide technical input into hiring and assessment processes while leaving career development and performance management to engineering managers.

• Lead or co-lead the response to high-severity incidents affecting systems within your area of influence and ensure durable remediation rather than temporary fixes.

• Design and improve systems for high availability, security, scalability, performance, and operational excellence.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Engineering leadership, and other stakeholders to evaluate feasibility and align technical decisions with business priorities.

• Identify opportunities to simplify systems, improve developer experience, automate workflows, and introduce technologies that increase engineering effectiveness.

• Contribute to shared platforms, internal tools, libraries, and AI-assisted engineering workflows where they can create organization-wide impact.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience operating as a Senior, Lead, Staff, Principal, or equivalent individual contributor on complex systems.

• Deep expertise in at least one major technical area, such as backend engineering with Java/Spring Boot, microservices, scalable system design, PostgreSQL/MySQL, NoSQL, Kafka, REST APIs, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Alternatively, strong frontend expertise with React and TypeScript, including component architecture, performance optimization, testing, and modern build and CI tooling.

• Ability to reason across the full technology stack, even when technical depth is concentrated on either backend or frontend development.

• Proven experience designing and operating highly available, secure, scalable, and observable production systems.

• Strong understanding of testing practices, including unit, integration, and contract testing, as well as CI/CD practices such as GitHub Actions.

• Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality technical designs that can be reviewed, challenged, and implemented by other engineers.

• Strong influence and leadership skills without relying on formal management authority.

• Ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly to Product, Design, engineering leadership, and other stakeholders.

• Strong product mindset, with the ability to participate in roadmap discussions and assess technical feasibility rather than focusing solely on individual tickets.

• Intellectual honesty and adaptability, with a willingness to change direction when evidence or new information supports a better approach.

• Strong mentorship skills and a track record of helping engineering teams become more capable and effective.

• Strong English communication skills; Spanish is a plus for collaboration across Latin America.

• Experience in financial applications, payments, or regulated Latin American markets is advantageous.

• Experience with platform engineering, developer experience initiatives, shared libraries, internal tools, or AI-assisted engineering workflows is desirable.

• Deep AWS experience, including technologies such as EKS, RDS, or MSK, and/or experience with application security, authentication, or software supply-chain security is a plus.

Benefits:

• Remote-first working model with flexibility around where you work.

• Competitive salary and stock options through an employee stock ownership plan.

• Annual learning and development budget.

• Accelerated opportunities for professional and technical growth.

• High-talent-density engineering environment focused on meaningful impact across Latin America.

• Strong culture of ownership, autonomy, simplicity, and continuous improvement.

• English as the working language, with regular collaboration in Spanish and Portuguese.

• Inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives, experiences, and ideas.

• Opportunity to influence technical strategy and engineering standards at an organization-wide level.

• Hands-on exposure to complex distributed systems, financial technology, payments, cloud infrastructure, and AI-enabled engineering.

• Collaboration with experienced engineers and technical leaders across multiple teams.

• Flexible approach to office collaboration, with time in the office encouraged naturally and increased presence during onboarding or when required by leadership.