As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and scaling core products. You’ll work across the stack—building powerful backend services, intuitive frontend experiences, and robust cloud-native applications. You'll also provide technical leadership and mentorship, influencing engineering with the best practices across the team.

Location:Colombia only -100% Remote. Working hours are based between the CST and EST time zones.

About Us:

Abstra is a fast-growing, Nearshore Tech Talent services company, providing top Latin American tech talent to U.S. companies and beyond. Founded by U.S.-bred engineers with over 15 years of experience, Abstra specializes in sourcing skilled professionals across a wide range of technologies to meet our clients’ needs, driving innovation and efficiency.

What You'll Do:

• Architect and build scalable, secure, and resilient backend systems using Java, Kotlin, or other JVM-based languages. 

• Lead design and implementation efforts for core components across cloud-native services (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP/Azure). 

• Collaborate with product management and cross-functional teams to translate complex business requirements into robust technical solutions. 

• Champion modern DevSecOps practices, integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and ensuring automation across build and deployment processes. 

• Guide and mentor engineering teams through technical challenges, providing architectural guidance and code reviews. 

• Advocate for and implement best practices in testing, observability, reliability, and performance optimization. 

• Evaluate and integrate open-source tools and libraries, contributing back to the community when appropriate. 

• Drive improvements in platform scalability, data processing pipelines, and distributed system architecture. 

• Participate in and lead incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability engineering efforts.

What You'll Need:

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience. 

• Proven experience designing and building scalable, production-grade full stack applications.