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 engineeri

📌 Staff Software Engineer (Colombia)
🏢 Abstra
📍 Colombia