Obsidiam is hiring a Lead Software Architect to own the technical foundation of a regulated cross-border payments platform serving Latin America — serious money movement, built to a regulated standard, in a fast-growing market.
You'll turn an ambitious product vision into a concrete architecture, decide what we build versus integrate, and shape the engineering team around it.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Translate our product and business vision into a clear technical blueprint.
- Design the overall system architecture for a secure, regulated, multi-jurisdiction payments platform.
- Own the build-vs-buy and technology decisions across the stack — custody/wallet infrastructure, liquidity, banking and local payment rails, FX, the API layer, and reconciliation.
- Architect for compliance and security from day one — AML and the controls a regulated payments business requires.
- Define the team we need: estimate headcount and the specialties required (backend, frontend, DevOps/SRE, security, data engineering, AI).
- Build the development roadmap and milestones; set engineering standards and CI/CD.




- Identify and mitigate technical and security risks — key management, transaction integrity, custody — before significant capital is committed.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Senior/principal-level experience as a software architect or staff+ engineer, ideally including a from-scratch (0→1) build.
- Deep, hands-on expertise in AI, machine learning, and operations research and optimization (OR) systems — this is central to the role, not peripheral.
- Strong background in payments, fintech, or digital-asset infrastructure, including stablecoin, treasury, or cross-border FX.
- Deep distributed-systems and API-design expertise; event-driven, cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, GitOps).
- Security-first mindset and experience designing for regulated environments.
- Hands-on with one or more of: wallet/custody infrastructure, liquidity/trading integrations, banking-as-a-service or local payment

📌 Lead Software Architect — Regulated Cross-Border Payments (Bogotá)
🏢 Obsidiam
📍 Bogotá