This is a highly impactful, hands-on, senior-level technical leadership role where the successful candidate will drive the technical direction for our organization of over 20 engineers across 4 agile teams. This includes providing technical guidance and mentorship to our senior engineers and technical leads. The role involves defining and refining our organizational architecture, processes, and best practices. As this is a hands-on role, the successful candidate will collaborate with domain experts, technical leads, and engineers to design, build, test, and own systems and processes for servicing 401(k) plans and making our customers happy. Reliability and performance are key to earning our customers’ trust, so the role includes owning the overall robustness of our area and extending our system’s reliability, scalability, observability, and maintainability. Responsibilities: Define forward-looking architectures through the creation of designs, establishing tradeoffs in cost vs value, and gaining buy-in from key technical, product, and business stakeholders. Drive the delivery of prototypes, technical standards, project plans, and roadmaps that align with the product vision of our organization, in conjunction with technical leads. Coach and mentor senior-level engineers in our organization to help raise the bar in innovation, efficiency, and technical capability. Deliver features and enhancements that improve complex processes and systems to make them more robust, higher performance, and require less human intervention. Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to share knowledge and build expertise. Raise the bar of our team’s standards, resulting in cleaner, well-documented, and higher-quality code. Model and teach key behaviors for owning and delivering systems that are fast, horizontally scalable, and reliable. Speak up and advocate for forward-looking architectures and designs that minimize human intervention while keeping development costs incremental. Qualifications: Minimum 10 years of professional experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend software products and systems. Having a focus on Java or Kotlin for backend development is more important. Node.js can also be learned later on. Expert at designing and building modular distributed applications to support an extremely rapidly growing customer base (100x). Solid understanding of the current landscape of auto-scaling cloud technologies and efficient usage of compute, storage, network, and virtualization technologies (preferably AWS). You enjoy influencing cross-team standards, practices, and tools by modeling behaviors and demonstrating outcomes. You can clearly articulate the business benefits that result from technical decisions. You enjoy mentoring other engineers and helping them grow technically. You have often become a key go-to person in your company, even on projects outside your project area. You have delivered large-scale backend systems, including ingesting and processing data at significant scale, and managed elastic workloads using queue/worker and streaming architectures. We offer: 10 working days of Paid Day Off within an individual year. Up to 15 working days of Unpaid days off within an individual year. Professional Growth: Sombra University courses – enjoy a range of learning opportunities through Sombra University. It offers many educational courses, as well as educational lectures on a variety of topics. Sombra Around Tech – community attendance – Sombra unites engineers and experts in several areas: Front-end, Back-end, QA, DevOps, and Business Analysis. Mentorship program – available on request. UDEMY online course platform – stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and programming languages. English courses and Speaking Club – attend English classes twice a week in small groups. Added advantages: Work equipment (Laptop, monitor, and small devices compensation). If you know someone you believe is a good fit for our cooperation, you can recommend them and get a reward. Public Holidays – celebrate 18 statutory holidays in Colombia. Sombra events – Join Sombra’s traditional events (both online and offline). Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Engineering and Information Technology Industries IT Services and IT Consulting #J-18808-Ljbffr