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 p

📌 Staff Software Engineer (Colombia)
🏢 Abstra
📍 Colombia