Staff Engineer (Ingeniero Staff)

This is a senior individual-contributor role with organization-wide technical influence across complex product and platform initiatives.
You will shape architecture, engineering standards, reliability practices, and technical strategy across multiple teams.
The role remains deeply hands-on, with regular production coding, design work, reviews, and technical problem-solving.
You will work across services, APIs, data models, event-driven systems, and shared platforms to solve high-impact engineering challenges.
A major part of the role is multiplying engineering impact through mentorship, technical design, and influence without formal authority.
You will also help guide incident response, technical investments, and long-term decisions around scalability, security, and operability.
The environment values ownership, simplicity, intellectual honesty, continuous improvement, and high-quality engineering.

• 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.