Hybrid, Remote

Colombia Medellín

We're looking for an early career fullstack Java engineer to contribute to software used in the trading tools industry. You'll write production code from day one, supported by senior engineers through mentorship and code review, while building your skills in enterprise development, AI-assisted coding, and the software development lifecycle.

Required for this role

- Some hands-on experience with full-stack Java development through internships, coursework, bootcamps, or serious personal projects.
- Foundational SQL skills for backend development and a willingness to deepen them.
- Familiarity with the Spring Framework, or the ability and motivation to learn it quickly.
- Some exposure to AWS or another cloud platform, with a willingness to continue learning.
- Early experience with and strong active interest in AI code tools and AI-assisted software development.
- Upper-intermediate to expert English skills for comfortable synchronous communication.
- Ability to work through well-scoped full-stack tasks with guidance and progressively take ownership of delivery.
- Basic understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Curiosity about prompt engineering and context engineering for software development, including some hands-on experimentation.
- A careful, questioning approach to AI-generated code, with attention to correctness, security, performance, and maintainability.

Your responsibilities

- Contribute to full-stack coding tasks with support from senior engineers, progressing toward independent and timely feature delivery.




- Build practical knowledge of the software development lifecycle through day-to-day engineering work.
- Learn to navigate the technical and delivery requirements of a complex enterprise banking environment.
- Work with AI-assisted development workflows as part of everyday software engineering.
- Experiment with AI development primitives such as instructions, prompts/commands, skills, subagents, hooks, MCP, and CLI tooling.
- Build and improve AI-assisted development workflows as your understanding grows.
- Apply prompt engineering and context engineering to real software development tasks.
- Review and validate AI-generated code for correctness, security compliance, performance, and long-term maintainability.

What you get

Your time off

- Up to 15 paid vacation days annually
- Additional unpaid days off
- 19 Colombian public holidays

Learning & growth

- Sombra University workshops and internal learning programs
- Tech Communities and knowledge sharing sessions
- Language courses and workshops
- Mentorship opportunities
- Access to the Platzi online learning platform

And even more

- Company-provided work equipment
- Internal referral program
- Bonuses for getting married or the birth of a child
- Sombra events and internal initiatives

Before you apply Our recruitment team will carefully review your profile, and if we see a good match with the role, we’ll reach out to you shortly.

If you don’t hear from us within 5 business days, it means we’ve decided to continue the process with other candidates for this position. Thanks for understanding.

Carlin Acosta

Recruitment Partner

📌 Junior Software Engineer (Java) (Medellín)
🏢 Sombra
📍 Medellín